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October 18, 2021, Mr. Boden entered a guilty plea for 3 of the counts- Operating an Unlicensed Money Transmitting Business, Money Laundering, and Structuring. On February 25, 2022, Christopher Boden was sentenced to 30 months in federal custody, 3 years of supervised release, 150 hours of community service, and a $ 300 special assessment. The judgement was also made that Boden was to forfeit a sum of $ 75,000 to the federal government.
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December 21, 2018 The National Science Institute's Laboratory at 902 Leonard Street NW was raided by Homeland Security, the IRS, and several other federal agencies. The raid was a result of conspiracy to operate an unlicensed Money Transmitting Business, operating an unlicensed Money Transmitting
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and three other federal agencies. After which
Christopher Boden and Leesa B Vogt (AKA: Lis Bokt, Moose) started a Michigan non-profit organization called "The Church of Tesla", an ecclesiastical society (which limits the IRS ability to conduct investigations of wrong doing), and continued providing
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December 2010 a 43,000-square-foot (4,000 m) facility situated on Leonard Street NW, dubbed The Leonard Street Labs. On January 2, 2014, a fire partially destroyed the organization's High Voltage Lab, and deposited soot all over the lab. A grub
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February 24, 2021 an indictment was issued for Christopher Boden, charging him with Conspiracy to Operate an Unlicensed Money Transmitting Business, Operating an Unlicensed Money Transmitting Business, Conspiracy to Launder Money, 13 counts of Money Laundering, 10 counts of Structuring, and
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array to catch fire and subsequently melt. From preliminary analysis, Project Gemini (a 200,000 watt Tesla coil demonstration) looks to be the originating cause, and completely destroyed, and
Project Thumper (a high impulse generator) was damaged. The fire was so hot it melted aluminum racks.
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February 24, 2021, Mr. Boden was indicted on 28 federal counts including Conspiracy to Operate an Unlicensed Money Transmitting business, Operating an Unlicensed Money Transmitting Business, Conspiracy to Launder Money, Money Laundering, Structuring, and Attempted Collection of Debt by
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similar information as the NSI did. This new non-profit organization was using a lot of the items that were to be sold off or donated to other non-profits when the NSI was being dissolved to be in compliance with federal 501(c)3 non-profit dissolution rules.
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January 1, 2014.
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to move out of its socket and strike one of the stationary electrodes. This resulted in a chain reaction with molten tungsten being flung from the spark gap unit, which caused a nearby
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without the proper authorization", and that he believed he was facing prison. On Sunday January 6 he stated that on the advice of his lawyer he would make no further comment.
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after the organization refused to pay property taxes. The back taxes amounted to over $ 100,000 The organization appealed; however, the appeal was denied.
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