Trump’s second ex-wife calls for end of persecution against Roger Ver
17 Março 2025 - 3:06AM
Cointelegraph
US President Donald Trump’s second ex-wife, Marla Maples, has
shown support for ending the country’s case against early Bitcoin
advocate Roger Ver, known as “Bitcoin Jesus.”
“Sharing more re [regarding] the call to dismiss the prosecution
against Roger Ver,” Maples said in a March
16 X post, sharing a video created by an organization aimed at
supporting Ver and tagging Trump, Elon Musk and US Attorney General
Pam Bondi.
The Department of Justice charged Ver with mail
fraud, tax evasion and filing false tax returns in April 2024,
alleging he hid the amount of Bitcoin (BTC) he owned when he
renounced his US citizenship in 2014 and defrauded the Internal
Revenue Service out of $48 million by failing
to report the
gains he made through selling them.
Maples and Trump met in the mid-1980s during his first marriage
to Ivana Trump, and was his second wife from 1993 until 1999. She
has long been involved with philanthropy and has advocated for
multiple charities and causes.
She is seemingly still close to and supportive of Trump, who
together have a daughter, Tiffany Trump. Maples
attended Trump’s
inauguration and told the
London Evening Standard in July that she was “open to whatever way
that I can serve” the then-presidential bidder.
Maples joins a host of high-profile figures
calling to
stop the prosecution of Ver, which includes
Ethereum
co-founder Vitalik Buterin and online black market
Silk Road
creator Ross Ulbricht, who was facing a double life sentence in
prison until Trump pardoned him in January.
Ver has appealed to Trump for a pardon, claiming he is being
unfairly persecuted and is a victim of “lawfare.”
Neither Trump nor the White House has publicly acknowledged
Ver’s plea, but Trump’s cost-cutting czar Musk
said in a January X post
that Ver “gave up his US citizenship. No pardon for Ver. Membership
has its privileges.”
Related: Roger
Ver’s Trump pardon plea: ‘Lawfare’ victim or tax
evader?
Ver was arrested in Spain at the time of the US indictment
pending his extradition to the US but was later granted
bail on the condition he remain in the country.
He moved to
dismiss the government’s case in December, arguing the charges
were unconstitutional, and the IRS’ “exit tax” for renounced
citizens is “inscrutably vague” when applied to crypto.
Cointelegraph has contacted Maples for comment.
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