Posted on 03/20/2021 6:20:51 AM PDT by Daffynition
Six people involved with the libertarian Free Keene group are facing charges — including wire fraud and money laundering — related to an unlicensed cryptocurrency exchange that federal prosecutors said processed some $10 million since 2016.
Prosecutors say the six people ran an unlicensed online exchange that let people swap dollars for Bitcoin, and collected fees for their service.
The six charged are Ian Freeman (formerly Ian Bernard), 40, of Keene; Colleen Fordham, 60, of Alstead; Renee Spinella, 23, of Derry; Andrew Spinella, 35, of Derry; Nobody (formerly Richard Paul), 52, of Keene; and Aria DiMezzo, 34, of Keene, who ran for Cheshire County sheriff in 2020.
The cryptocurrency exchange used bank accounts that purported to be for churches, lied to banks and told customers to lie to banks to keep up the ruse, prosecutors said in an indictment.
(Excerpt) Read more at unionleader.com ...
I am impressed that people from Keene were bright enough to try to get away with this.
Gotta love it....
**The accused includes a former gubernatorial candidate and libertarian activist who changed his last name to Freeman; a man with a lengthy criminal record who changed his legal name to Nobody; and a transgender woman who identifies as a Satanist who lost a bid for Cheshire county sheriff last year.**
You mean just the topless ones, eh?
Being dignified, was never in their proposal.
“the Church of the Invisible Hand and the Reformed Satanic Church”
OK, by now I’m suspicious enough to say that these guys bear watching. I have to hand it to the suspect who changed name to “Nobody”. That one belongs in the “Who’s on first” routine.
“...and a transgender woman who identifies as a Satanist who lost a bid for Cheshire county sheriff last year...”
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LOL - It’s a mystery why the candidate lost the race for sheriff.
Ian Freeman is probably FTL_Ian host of
FreeTalkLive and poster on radio messageboards and maybe here.
Think the libertarians ran some pirate
stations in Manchester and Keene
In 2016, after arguing that 14 year olds are capable of consenting to sexual activity with adults, Ian Bernard, also known as Ian Freeman, was expelled from the Free State Project. He had been a participant for 10 years. A week later, the Federal Bureau of Investigation served a warrant at 73 Leverett Street in Keene, NH after a months-long child pornography sting. Later that year, Bernard ran for Governor of New Hampshire as a Democrat.
https://manchesterinklink.com/the-successess-and-failures-of-the-free-state-project/
While not exclusively so, most Free Staters who run for office do so as Republicans based on the ideals of small government who spends its money responsibly. This, as often as not, leads to a divide among the participants between those who are conservative and those who are not. Increasingly, more conservatives (rather than libertarians) appear to be active participants, making it difficult for left-leaning participants to have an equal voice or be taken seriously by others...
according to the Ink Link
Thanks for info
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