Dan Christensen is an “investigative journalist” who writes for a blog called Florida Bulldog. While Christensen has done some notable investigative reporting regarding the epic corruption in the Broward County Sheriff’s Office—when it comes to me, perhaps his website should be called The Broward Bullsh*t!
Christensen reports that I was “fired” as a “principal pardon lobbyist” for cryptocurrency and bitcoin pioneer Roger Ver, sometimes referred to as “Bitcoin Jesus,” who was facing federal charges of having miscalculated the amount of his expatriation tax when he reluctantly renounced his U.S. citizenship.
First of all, nowhere in required federal filings am I identified as the “principal pardon lobbyist,” as indeed I was not. Roger Ver never formally sought a pardon. While Elon Musk publicly suggested a pardon, he subsequently posted that a pardon of Ver by Trump was unlikely.
I was specifically retained by Ver to talk to members of Congress about reform of our repatriation tax laws. I very specifically never communicated with anyone, including the President himself, in the Executive Branch regarding Roger Ver’s case. Thus, I was most certainly not Roger Ver’s “principal pardon lobbyist,” as Christensen wrongly claims.
I did recommend two attorneys to Roger Ver: former Solicitor General of Florida Kris Kise and tax attorney Jeff Neiman, who negotiated a settlement of the charges against Ver.
My federally required filing was terminated not because I was “fired,” as Dan Christensen claims in his hit piece, but actually because the matter was successfully legally settled.
This is not the first time Christensen just made things up, claiming falsely that I had paid federal taxes with money I raised for “Stop The Steal,” an organization legally constituted in 2016 for purposes of conducting extensive exit polling to verify the integrity of the elections.
We were sued by the Democrat Party in five states and at the federal level, and in all cases the court rejected the Democrats’ claim of voter suppression and upheld our right to conduct exit polls consistent with state laws regarding proximity to polling locations. Virtually all of the money raised was used to pay for this frivolous litigation.
Christensen claimed variously that my wife and I had evaded taxes or got some other break from the IRS, oblivious to the fact that 75% of what my wife and I owe to the IRS is interest and penalty and that we are required to pay every penny of it off.
Now you know what Donald Trump is talking about when he calls out the Fake News.
