---
title: "Early Bitcoin Investor Charged with Tax Fraud"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/early-bitcoin-investor-charged-with-tax-fraud-qasjneb3d
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/early-bitcoin-investor-charged-tax-fraud
type: article
source: "Hacker News"
published: 2024-05-01T08:24:16.458Z
updated: 2024-05-09T08:39:06.345Z
tags: ["crypto", "bitcoin"]
reading_time: 3
upvotes: 0
comments: 1
language: en
---

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# Early Bitcoin Investor Charged with Tax Fraud

**[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 1 comments

## Summary

Early bitcoin investor Roger Ver has been charged with mail fraud, tax evasion, and filing false tax returns. He allegedly owned two companies, MemoryDealers and Agilestar, and acquired bitcoins for himself and his companies. Ver allegedly concealed his ownership of bitcoins and caused a loss of at least $48 million to the IRS.

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