Sign the Letter to President Trump for Dismissal of Charges for Roger Ver

Dear Mr. President,

We, the undersigned, are writing to ask you to drop the charges against Roger Ver, a successful entrepreneur
and former CEO of Bitcoin.com, who has become a high-profile target of lawfare by the United States’ Tax
Division.

We are deeply concerned with the frightening precedent it sets. Roger Ver is facing up to 109 years in prison
for attempting to pay his taxes upon expatriation. Right now, he is awaiting extradition to the United States
from Spain. There is no crime, and the punishment represents an uneven application of justice. It is wildly
disproportionate and extremely political in nature.

In 2014, Roger Ver expatriated from the United States, and while negotiations over his tax burden were
continuing that same year, the Tax Division indicted Ver by using half-truths and manipulated emails,
masking Ver’s good faith intention to comply with the law regarding his taxes. Following his indictment, the
Tax Division’s Investigative Team grossly violated Ver’s attorney-client privilege by interrogating his
attorneys under duress.

These prosecutorial misjudgments compound the fundamental unfairness of charging Ver for tax offenses
set against the unconstitutionally vague backdrop of the tax code’s treatment of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency,
especially in 2014 when there was so much uncertainty regarding the valuation and sale of Bitcoin, and
against a tax that violates the 16th Amendment.

Ver’s approach to expatriation and his related tax filings relied entirely on professional legal and accounting
advice. Ver wanted to get it right and wanted to pay his taxes in order to avoid precisely the kind of
persecution that the Tax Division has waged. For 70,000 other Bitcoin users who made no such attempt to
pay their taxes, the IRS responded by sending a notice and request that they do so; for Ver, a prosecution.
Ver, a staunch Libertarian, had been critical of the United States government, and was targeted for his
outspoken Libertarian views.

• Among other things, Ver’s indictment repeatedly quotes incomplete portions of communications,
  while omitting other exonerating portions of the same communications.
• The investigation relies in part on the illegal interrogation of Ver’s attorneys.
• The indictment criminalizes Ver’s good faith efforts to comply with a tax code that did not (and
  does not) provide any degree of clarity as to the treatment of digital assets.
• The indictment rests on an “exit tax” on unrealized gains that is unconstitutional under the 16th
  Amendment as an unapportioned direct tax.

We respectfully request that you exercise your executive power to remedy this injustice and instruct the Tax
Division to drop the charges against Roger Ver. His disparate, draconian indictment risks undermining the
American people’s faith in our justice system. By dismissing it, you will be applauded—in public and in
private—across the political spectrum and throughout communities worldwide, including and especially by
we, the undersigned.

Sincerely,