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Steven Seagal Can’t Outrun Feds’ Crypto Fine

NOT BEYOND THE LAW

The washed-up action star now lives in Moscow, but a Brooklyn judge is making him pay up.

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Steven Seagal agreed to pay the Securities and Exchange Commission a $330,000 fine for flogging a cryptocurrency without disclosing he was paid to do so—but he only paid $75,000 and stiffed the feds on the rest while living in Moscow. Now a judge in Brooklyn has given the SEC permission to go through Seagal’s U.S. business manager to get the rest of the money, Bloomberg reports. Seagal—who was granted Russian citizenship in 2016—also ignored the judge’s order to appear in court.

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