Silicon Valley’s ‘Bitcoin Jesus’ Avoids Prison with $50 Million Payment to Feds
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Crypto investor Roger Ver is spared prosecution, benefiting from Washington's changing attitude towards the crypto industry.
Silicon Valley’s ‘Bitcoin Jesus’ avoids prison with $50 million payment to feds
By David Voreacos, Olga Kharif and Miles J. Herszenhorn, Bloomberg Roger Ver, the cryptocurrency advocate known as “Bitcoin Jesus,” has paid nearly $50 million to resolve a US tax evasion indictment without having to admit he committed a crime. Prosecutors agreed to dismiss the indictment against Ver, who admitted in a deferred-prosecution agreement that he failed to pay all the taxes that he owed to the Internal Revenue Service on the sale of B…
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