bitcoin jesus owes the IRS almost $50M...and they intend to get it

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/mar...p&cvid=51cb631137114286feb84fac828b7712&ei=22

The Justice Department announced on Tuesday it has charged Roger Ver, a well-known figure from the early days of Bitcoin, with mail fraud and filing false tax returns. In a press release announcing the charges, the agency said "Bitcoin Jesus" had evaded nearly $50 million in taxes—invoking a nickname that Ver acquired around 2010 due to his habit of gifting bitcoins to those he met.

According to an IRS indictment filed in Los Angeles, Ver worked with with a law firm to avoid reporting his personal holdings and to undervalue 73,000 bitcoins owned by his companies. The indictment also says he sold tens of thousands of Bitcoin in 2017 for $240 million.

Ver, who was actively promoting crypto on social media as recently as April 25, was reportedly detained in Spain by U.S. authorities

good

when these uber rich fuckers pay what they're supposed to pay, those getting hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars in income, there's money to pay for the things that make America better for everyone.

 

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and one of the onecoin fraudsters, too, charged by the U.S Justice dept. for bank fraud dating back to 2015 when the onecoin cryptocurrency scheme was revealed as a huge fraud, losing investors around $4B!

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/mar...&cvid=2e7c106adecf413289d4838d75e09a67&ei=189

On April 23, filings in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York revealed that William Morro facilitated the transfer of $35 million tied to the OneCoin operation from Chinese banks to a Hong Kong bank in 2016. The indictment suggests that Morro subsequently siphoned over $6 million from the Hong Kong account to a U.S. account under his control, constituting bank fraud.