Haliey Welch named in new filing for SOL Meme Coin lawsuit

“Hawk Tuah” daughter Haliey Welch has been named in a new filing for the existing class-action lawsuit against the coin project she promoted last year.

She was initially excluded from the lawsuit, which was filed just weeks after the Solana-based token launched and then collapsed.

Law firm asks court if it can amend its complaint

Burwick Law, the firm behind the class-action lawsuit, previously said it intentionally left Welch out of the case because it believed it was the most effective way to restore integrity to its clients.

However, the law firm has now request the court if it can amend its class action lawsuit to include her, her manager Johnnie Fortster and her company 16 Minutes LLC as defendants.

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– Burwick Law (@BurwickLaw) November 18, 2025

The law firm also added new fraud allegations and is seeking an order allowing it to grant alternative means of serving existing defendants, Clinton So and OverHere Limited, according to Court Auditor.

This is after Welch said in a now-deleted X-rated post that she was “fully cooperating” with Burwick Law to “uncover the truth” behind the token collapse.

According to the filing, Welch’s company, 16 Minutes LLC, signed a “Meme Token Creation and Monetization Agreement” with Memetic Labs approximately five months before the token’s launch.

As part of this deal, Welch had to promote the token across all of his social media channels in exchange for $125,000 upfront and an additional $200,000 after reaching certain promotional milestones.

Those payments “transformed Welch from a passive celebrity into a critical part of a coordinated marketing funnel designed to attract retail buyers who trusted him,” Burwick Law said in the new filing.

Memetic Labs also got a 50% lifetime profit share tied to commercial activity of the token, according to the suit.

The HAWK token collapse was not an accident

Welch quickly rose to fame in 2024 after participating in an unscripted interview in which she revealed her “hawk tuah” sex technique. She then took advantage of the viral moment to launch a popular podcast. She also grew her online following to millions.

Welch then went further and launched the Hawk Tuah (HAWK) token, which she called a “transformational cultural token,” the new filing says.

This token was intended to be integrated into Welch’s podcast to provide subscription-style benefits. However, Burwick Law’s suit claims that the token did not have any of the technical components necessary to actually build this system.

Although the token may not have had the technical components it claimed to have at the time, the meme coin still managed to reach a market cap of $490 million in less than 15 minutes after its launch. But soon after, its price collapsed by 93%.

HAWK token price (Source: DEX filter)

According to data from DEX Screener, HAWK currently has a market cap of $1.7 million and is trading at $0.0001761 as of 5:28 a.m. EST. Over the past 24 hours, the token’s price has surged by over 2%, but this appears to be a temporary break from the downward trend the token has been in over the past few weeks.

Burwick Law’s suit claims that the token’s collapse was not an accident and that the meme coin was designed to work that way. The law firm added that insiders purchased substantial amounts of tokens before dumping a coin worth $1.27 million just minutes after it hit the market.

“The pseudonymous wallets orchestrating the scam were not random actors,” the company said, adding that on-chain forensic analysis shows the same wallet groups participated in several other “carpet pulls,” including “LIBRA, M3M3, AIAI, and the infamous TRUMP sniper.”

“The timing patterns, funding streams, and extraction methods in these programs are nearly identical,” the suit states.

The claims made in the new filing are only allegations at this point, and the court has not made its findings in this case.

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