It will be anti-money laundering. Hes either buying or selling BTC to drug dealers / organized crime.
AML is the charge. He 's a pretty careful guy, though. Maybe it was a one-off bad trade like that. But he's stating now it's a DoHS play for relevance in the face of btc
@NODEfather 3h3 hours ago
https://twitter.com/NODEfather/status/964908384628572160Everyone asking me about why I was arrested for selling Bitcoin for Cash. Homeland Security came to my home to handcuff me. This is their plan to regulate BTC via legislation from a judge. @Potus has lost control of DHS/ICE. DHS is not needed when BTC wins
https://twitter.com/NODEfather/with_replies worth a read
He can make up any BS story he likes. AML is taken really seriously. Anyone doing Local Bitcoin is asking for trouble. If you are taking large quantities of fiat in a brown paper bag in an alley, maybe you should stop and think for a second.
It seems the transaction was done in 2016. I am sure they will just have to review his tax report, check the transaction was properly accounted for and everything will be fine.
Btw, what's up with legal fees in USA? He estimates his lawyers fees will be $150K-$300K?

Is it easier to buy a firearm or a bitcoin? Why do they fight the txs and not the criminals? Then what is a criminal? selling raw milk across state lines? Or maybe if there is a breach of free will and denial of the possibility to form an informed consent, i.e. no lying about the sale etc.
I think we all don't want bitcoin, fiat or anything for the matters to be used by breachers of free will, deniers of informed consent and all this kind of common law criminals (thieves, rapists, terrorists etc)...
It seems the transaction was done in 2016. I am sure they will just have to review his tax report, check the transaction was properly accounted for and everything will be fine.
Btw, what's up with legal fees in USA? He estimates his lawyers fees will be $150K-$300K?

If he had an actual lawyer he wouldn't be tweeting like a moron.
Wasn't american justice system designed to be p2p?