Am I the only one who thinks it is ironic that lauda was extorting someone over claimed tax fraud, while lauda was claiming to do this in the name of a sting operation, when lauda refused to give theymos sufficient information to generate a 1099 for his moderator income and was going around bragging about not paying taxes on this income (aka committing tax fraud himself)?
Where did you get this info from or are you just making stuff up? And where is your evidence that he
refused to give anything? Besides, if you don't give theymos those details he pay the US taxes on your behalf so the only way he'd be able to commit tax fraud 100% would be to give theymos the details and then not pay the appropriate taxes to his own IRS. The whole point of filling in those forms is to show you're not earning US-based income.
My source is not important. I am not wrong though, you can ask the relevant parties if you don't believe me.
I would note that Lauda was also bragging about not paying taxes on his moderator income, and he was not specifying about US taxes.