'Bitcoin Jesus' to Settle U.S. Tax, Fraud Charges: NYT

Early Bitcoin (BTC) capitalist and Bitcoin Cash (BCH) advocator Roger Ver is adjacent to settling taxation fraud charges with the U.S. Department of Justice, the New York Times reported Thursday.

Often known arsenic "Bitcoin Jesus" owed to his aboriginal evangelization for the crypto, Ver was indicted past April and arrested successful Spain connected allegations helium failed to record taxation returns connected superior gains helium made aft selling "tens of thousands" of bitcoins and giving up U.S. citizenship, the DOJ charged astatine the time. Ver fought his extradition to the U.S., filing a suit earlier this summer.

According to the Times, the projected colony is taxable to alteration but would spot Ver paying astir $48 cardinal for the taxes helium allegedly owes. It has not yet been filed to oregon approved by the national justice overseeing the case.

A spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Justice's Los Angeles office, which filed the indictment, referred CoinDesk to the DOJ's main offices successful Washington, D.C. A spokesperson for the D.C. bureau did not instantly instrumentality a petition for comment. Ver did not instrumentality a petition for comment.

Ver told the Times helium could not comment.

The tribunal docket shows determination is simply a proceeding scheduled for Dec. 15, 2025.

Ver tapped Roger Stone, an subordinate of U.S. President Donald Trump, to lobby for his assistance successful resolving the case, according to a lobbying registration Stone filed earlier this year.

Trump has pardoned a fig of different crypto figures since retaking bureau arsenic president earlier this year, including Ross Ulbricht, Arthur Hayes and different founders of Bitmex — arsenic good arsenic Bitmex itself, after the institution antecedently pled blameworthy to violating the Bank Secrecy Act.

Changpeng "CZ" Zhao, the laminitis of Binance, has applied for a statesmanlike pardon arsenic well, aft serving 4 months successful situation aft his blameworthy plea tied to Binance's anti-money laundering compliance.