Satanic Church Founder Sentenced to 18 Months Prison for “Money-Transmitting Business”
The Founder of Satanic Church Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison for Operating Unlicensed Money-Transmitting Business
The founder of the Satanic Church, Aria DiMezzo, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for operating an unlicensed money-transmitting business. DiMezzo, a transgender woman with an ‘anti-police’ stance, was also ordered to pay a fine of $5,000 and to forfeit more than $14,000 along with 1.93 bitcoins.
According to investigators, between June 2020 and January 2021, DiMezzo charged a fee to exchange mostly U.S. dollars for Bitcoin, recruiting customers on websites. Customers sent DiMezzo money through bank accounts to the Reformed Satanic Church.
DiMezzo sold more than $3 million worth of virtual currency but did not register the operation as a money-transmitting business, failing to comply with mandatory regulations. Prosecutors said DiMezzo worked with a man named Ian Freeman to sell virtual currency to customers, paying Freeman a percentage of the profits.
Freeman was found guilty of operating an unlicensed money-transmitting business, laundering over $10 million in proceeds of romance scams, and tax evasion.
In 2020, Republicans in one New Hampshire county nominated DiMezzo for sheriff, whose campaign slogan disparaged the police.
At the time, DiMezzo said, as law enforcement, any of his deputies “would be fired on the spot, and perhaps charged with crimes, for any brutality or misconduct.”
DiMezzo serves as the high priest and founder of the Reformed Satanic Church. The church doesn’t believe Satan exists, DiMezzo claimed, but instead “stands for individualism and voluntarism, and opposes the god of the day,” which he described as the state.
READ: Satanic Temple Demands All Members Are Fully Vaccinated and Masked at SatanCon Event
Details of the Case
- The founder of the Satanic Church, Aria DiMezzo, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for operating an unlicensed money-transmitting business.
- DiMezzo charged a fee to exchange mostly U.S. dollars for Bitcoin, recruiting customers on websites.
- Customers sent DiMezzo money through bank accounts to the Reformed Satanic Church.
- DiMezzo sold more than $3 million worth of virtual currency but did not register the operation as a money-transmitting business, failing to comply with mandatory regulations.
- Prosecutors said DiMezzo worked with a man named Ian Freeman to sell virtual currency to customers, paying Freeman a percentage of the profits.
- Freeman was found guilty of operating an unlicensed money-transmitting business, laundering over $10 million in proceeds of romance scams, and tax evasion.
The case of Aria DiMezzo, the founder of the Satanic Church, has been making headlines. DiMezzo, a transgender woman with an ‘anti-police’ stance, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for operating an unlicensed money-transmitting business. According to investigators, DiMezzo charged a fee to exchange mostly U.S. dollars for Bitcoin, recruiting customers on websites. Customers sent DiMezzo money through bank accounts to the Reformed Satanic Church. DiMezzo sold more than $3 million worth of virtual currency but did not register the operation as a money-transmitting business, failing to comply with mandatory regulations. Prosecutors said DiMezzo worked with a man named Ian Freeman to sell virtual currency to customers, paying Freeman a percentage of the profits. Freeman was found guilty of operating an unlicensed money-transmitting business, laundering over $10 million in proceeds of romance scams, and tax evasion.
DiMezzo’s Political Campaign
In 2020, Republicans in one New Hampshire county nominated DiMezzo for sheriff, whose campaign slogan disparaged the police. At the time, DiMezzo said, as law enforcement, any of his deputies “would be fired on the spot, and perhaps charged with crimes, for any brutality or misconduct.”
The Reformed Satanic Church
DiMezzo serves as the high priest and founder of the Reformed Satanic Church. The church doesn’t believe Satan exists, DiMezzo claimed, but instead “stands for individualism and voluntarism, and opposes the god of the day,” which he described as the state.
READ: Satanic Temple Demands All Members Are Fully Vaccinated and Masked at SatanCon Event
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