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this guy was given 8 years for a paperwork violation
(news.bitcoin.com)
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this post was submitted on 02 Oct 2023
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https://www.justice.gov/usao-nh/pr/ian-freeman-sentenced-8-years-prison-operating-bitcoin-money-laundering-scheme
By failing to register his business with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network as required by law, disabling “know your customer” features on his bitcoin kiosks, and ensuring that bitcoin customers did not tell him what they did with their bitcoin, among other things, Freeman created a business that catered to fraudsters. By charging exorbitant fees, Freeman made more than a million dollars.
Freeman and his co-conspirators opened and operated accounts at financial institutions in the names of various churches including the Shire Free Church, the Church of the Invisible Hand, the Crypto Church of New Hampshire, and the NH Peace Church. Freeman instructed bitcoin customers, who were often victims of scams, to lie to the financial institutions and describe their deposits as church donations. From 2016 to 2019, he paid no taxes, and concealed his income from the Internal Revenue Service.
You have to pay your taxes.....
No one got a chance to vote for this "law", it was criminally foisted upon everyone. This law was made by a violent mafia and it is immoral to impose arbitrary rules on others so it is null and void.
It is not a crime to make more than a million dollars by defrauding no one.
Taxes = theft
If it is extracted at the point of a gun it is theft. Income taxes is the worst one because it is slavery. At least with sales tax I can choose not to buy anything to avoid it.
The state of everything we see today is exactly because huge sums of money are going to the parasitic state and they fund criminal activities which degrade society. Sending money to war criminals and pedophiles is not "contributing" to society.
Government should be strictly limited to a handful of essential services and slapped down hard if it tries to expand beyond this.
Just be reasonable and put on these chains.
That is the beauty of Monero. We can peacefully rip control back away from the banking elite that have hijacked the state against us. The elites have funded and injected hardcore communist propaganda into the schools and indoctrinated everyone to worship the state knowing full well they have captured the state.
So ignorant fools end up fighting to expand state power and in turn ensuring the bankers own them.