If using your 'reputation' to hype up projects for personal profit is illegal, then they ought to lock up every tech executive on the planet. That said, I wouldn't complain if they did...
Executive salaries and bonuses are almost 100% based on name recognition... Which is mostly hype backed by nothing. Exactly the same as in this case. There is absolutely no difference.
Executive salaries and bonuses are almost 100% based on name recognition... Which is mostly hype backed by nothing. Exactly the same as in this case. There is absolutely no difference.