Follow the Bitcoins taken from me by Homeland Security - page 6.

BurtW

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Quote from: GermanGiant on September 16, 2015, 11:48:15 AM

What reason are they showing for having 186 BTC plus about $40K in cash ? Tax evasion ?

You can read all about it here:

www.burtw.com

www.jmwagner.com

and, of course, here:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/burtw-arrested-update-charges-dropped-934268

tl;dr: I was charged with operating a money transmittal business without a licence for my trading activity on localbitcoins.com. (profile)

Defending myself cost me almost $300,000. We had to mortgage our house and cash in our retirement savings in order to pay the three separate law firms I had to hire (one for the criminal case against me, one for the plethora of civil cases against the seized property and one for the possible IRS case against me). However, since I have paid all the taxes on my gains from Bitcoin trading and mining there is no tax evasion.

BTW: none of the expenses involved, physical damage to our home during the search and seizure, damage to our business, attorney's fees, the $80K forfeiture, etc. are tax deductible.

valkir

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This could be usefull! https://www.blockseer.com Wink

DannyHamilton

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Quote from: GermanGiant on September 16, 2015, 11:48:15 AM

What reason are they showing for having 186 BTC plus about $40K in cash ? Tax evasion ?

They aren't required to show a reason.

Their "reason" is:

"We agree to drop the charges, and you agree not to try to recover this $80,000 worth of cash and bitcoins from us. If this agreement is not acceptable to you, then we will take this to court and you can pay a lot more than that in legal fees while risking the chance that you'll lose the case and spend a significant time in jail."

GermanGiant

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Quote from: BurtW on September 16, 2015, 11:38:13 AM

Quote from: GermanGiant on September 16, 2015, 11:07:33 AM

Quote from: BurtW on September 16, 2015, 08:42:10 AM

Here are the 186 ($42,222.00 as of this posting) Bitcoins taken from me by Homeland Security:

https://blockchain.info/address/1Eu38i1DkRAPAJhSqbseVroJDpMRfJbAx3

I am sure you guys can come up with some creative, interesting, fun ideas to do with this information.

Did they take 186 BTC or more ?

They dropped all charges for a payment of 186 BTC plus about $40K in cash.

Since they dropped all charges I got everything else (including my remaining BTC) back.

What reason are they showing for having 186 BTC plus about $40K in cash ? Tax evasion ?

BurtW

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I sent them a message with the blockchain.

It's included in this OP_RETURN:

OP_RETURN 53504b6d2e7668cb50a8928442fbf6260098004f32515afd8dd22e1207d857e5ed572fb4a1ed963 9

When decoded in sparkbit it reads

Creative, interesting and fun!

BurtW

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Quote from: GermanGiant on September 16, 2015, 11:07:33 AM

Quote from: BurtW on September 16, 2015, 08:42:10 AM

Here are the 186 ($42,222.00 as of this posting) Bitcoins taken from me by Homeland Security:

https://blockchain.info/address/1Eu38i1DkRAPAJhSqbseVroJDpMRfJbAx3

I am sure you guys can come up with some creative, interesting, fun ideas to do with this information.

Did they take 186 BTC or more ?

They dropped all charges for a payment of 186 BTC plus about $40K in cash.

Since they dropped all charges I got everything else (including my remaining BTC) back.

GermanGiant

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Quote from: BurtW on September 16, 2015, 08:42:10 AM

Here are the 186 ($42,222.00 as of this posting) Bitcoins taken from me by Homeland Security:

https://blockchain.info/address/1Eu38i1DkRAPAJhSqbseVroJDpMRfJbAx3

I am sure you guys can come up with some creative, interesting, fun ideas to do with this information.

Did they take 186 BTC or more ?

zesty_dragon

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I can flood the wallet with spam transactions if you want?

hahaha nice idea. +1
Maybe try to Crack that wallets private key, if it is found then you can have your money back.
But possibly it's never gonna happen.

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Quote from: BurtW on September 16, 2015, 08:42:10 AM

Here are the 186 ($42,222.00 as of this posting) Bitcoins taken from me by Homeland Security:

https://blockchain.info/address/1Eu38i1DkRAPAJhSqbseVroJDpMRfJbAx3

I am sure you guys can come up with some creative, interesting, fun ideas to do with this information.

You are a lucky guy, Uncle Sam took from you only money, not your life nor beloved ones as he did to millions of innocent people around the globe. Say fuck you to your passed ancestors whose deeds led to the current state of things, say sorry to native americans who were slayed to free the space for newcomers with guns. And better run off the land of the free...

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Move On !!!!!!

This is disgusting, what else can I say. I am sorry BurtW that this has happened to you and thanks God I don't live anymore in the US, the land of free, the land of opportunity(this I say with the highest degree of irony, of course).

I hope you will get back in your feet somehow. I surely hop you are not done with Bitcoin. I also wish that you fight those a**holes with the best attorneys possible, unfortunately I don't see how this will be possible when you are essentially going against the government.

Good luck!

BurtW

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so burt wot happend exactly did they steal you bitcoins didnt u give some on reserve for yourself in cold storage tell me more

You can read all about it here:

www.burtw.com

www.jmwagner.com

and, of course, here:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/burtw-arrested-update-charges-dropped-934268

BurtW

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All paid signature campaigns should be banned.

Here are the 186 ($42,222.00 as of this posting) Bitcoins taken from me by Homeland Security:

https://blockchain.info/address/1Eu38i1DkRAPAJhSqbseVroJDpMRfJbAx3

I am sure you guys can come up with some creative, interesting, fun ideas to do with this information.

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