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  • Anti-Defamation League, One Of First Groups To Warn Public About AdSurfDaily Figure Kenneth Wayne Leaming, Now Says ‘Sovereign Citizens’ Are Forming ‘Vigilante Grand Juries’ And Harassing Public Officials In New York, Florida And Elsewhere

    americaatrisk4Kenneth Wayne Leaming, the AdSurfDaily Ponzi story figure and purported “sovereign citizen” now serving eight years in federal prison in part for filing bogus liens against public officials involved in the 2008 ASD case, once claimed the federal judge in Washington state who presided over his criminal trial owed him 208,000 ounces of “99.9% fine silver.”

    Among Leaming’s bizarre claims was that the judge was “operating [a] SLAVERY SYSTEM, etc.” Leaming earlier tried unsuccessfully to sue President Obama and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. Among his bizarre claims in that now-dismissed case was that he and a co-plaintiff — a man in prison on federal tax charges — were owed 12,000 ounces of gold.

    After Leaming’s conviction in a 2013 trial in which federal prosecutors said he was channeling deceased cop-killer Christopher Dorner in the courtroom, the judge ordered the forfeiture of items seized from Leaming during an FBI probe of his activities in 2011. Those items included six firearms and police equipment, including badges, credentials, law-enforcement identification documents, light bars, crime-scene tape, handcuffs, vests and nightsticks.

    Leaming “client” files also were ordered forfeited. (Some ASD members said Leaming was performing legal work for them, even though he is not an attorney.)

    The Anti-Defamation League, which warned the public about Leaming before his name even surfaced in the context of ASD in 2010, now says a different group of purported “sovereign citizens” on the other side of the country is harassing a judge and court clerk in rural Greene County, N.Y. Greene County, in the Catskills, has a population of fewer than 50,000, according to its Wikipedia entry.

    From the ADL (italics added):

     . . . common law grand juries claim to have signed a “true bill” charging the chief clerk in Greene County with numerous “crimes” related to her alleged failure to file paperwork for the “grand jury,” according to ADL. They also “fined” a Greene County judge the amount of “100 ounces of silver,” citing 23 separate “violations” for failing to provide demanded documents and refusing to speak to their “board of review,” and allegedly sent harassing documents to a number of judges.

    And there might be trouble elsewhere, ADL says.

    “[C]ommon law juries in Marion and St. Johns counties in Florida sent a ‘Writ of Mandamus’ to county officials demanding a budget of $1.5 million, office space and equipment and a meeting room with a conference table and chairs,” ADL reports.

    Marion County is in North Central Florida in the Ocala region and has a population of about 335,000. St. John’s County is in Northeast Florida in the Jacksonville region and has a population of about 190,000.

    There have been reports of violence and extremely menacing behavior involving “sovereign citizens” in Florida. In March 2013, purported “sovereign” Jeffrey Allen Wright was shot to death after pointing a pistol at a sheriff’s SWAT team in Navarre, situated in the Florida panhandle. Wright was wanted on a warrant for counterfeiting.

    In November 2013, Tampa-region “sovereign citizen” Eric Holtgard was arrested twice in less than 24 hours, amid allegations he was menacing people with guns. In May 2013, purported “sovereign citizen” Bruce Chalmers Hicks of the Tampa region was arrested on charges that he was carrying a sidearm on the property of Turkey Creek Middle School in Plant City.

    Larry M. Myers, a purported “sovereign citizen” and fugitive, was sentenced in 2012 to 78 months in federal prison. Authorities said he was was member of a bogus entity known as “The Constitutional Court of We The People In and For The United States of America” and the “Constitutional Common Law Court.”

    “Myers and his co-conspirators mailed a CLC arrest warrant to a Chief Judge of a Florida State court,” the office of the Treasury Inspector General For Tax Administration (TIGTA) said. “They also issued a CLC contempt of court order and ‘militia’ arrest warrant to a District Judge.”

    “Sovereign citizens” have been claiming judicial and jury authority for years. ADL suggests these elements of the purported “movement” might be gaining steam.

    “Adherents of the sovereign citizen movement are forming their own vigilante “grand juries” in counties across the United States in an attempt to exact pressure on local government officials to accede to their anti-government demands and whims,” ADL said yesterday.

    “The sovereign citizen group behind this attempt to form bogus grand juries is the National Liberty Alliance, formed in 2011 as the New York Liberty Alliance by sovereign citizen guru John Darash of Poughkeepsie, NY,” ADL says. “It recently launched a nationwide effort to recruit new members, and Darash and his followers have spent most of their time establishing ‘common law grand juries’ in counties across the country. The Liberty Alliance boasts of having 852 county organizers in 36 states and nearly 2,000 members from coast to coast.”

     

  • Florida ‘Sovereign Citizen’ (And Former Fugitive) Who Waged Intimidation Campaign Sentenced To 78 Months In Federal Prison; Larry M. Myers Sent ‘Threatening Communications’ And Obstructed Justice

    Larry M. Myers, a self-described “sovereign citizen” and fugitive who remained on the lam for 14 years before his August 2011 arrest, has been sentenced to 78 months in federal prison.

    Myers, 63, was found guilty by a jury on Valentine’s Day of conspiracy, mailing threatening communications in a bid to extort and obstructing justice.

    In March, the office of the Treasury Inspector General For Tax Administration (TIGTA) described Myers as member of a bogus entity known as “The Constitutional Court of We The People In and For The United States of America.”

    The entity also was known as the “Constitutional Common Law Court” and “The Supreme Court of the Constitutional Court of We the People — In and For the united [sic] States of America.”

    Known informally as CLC, the confabulations were “pseudo-judicial, non-governmental, and unofficial enterprise[s], created and established in 1992 in Tampa, Florida,” TIGTA said.

    “Myers and his co-conspirators mailed a CLC arrest warrant to a Chief Judge of a Florida State court,” TIGTA said. “They also issued a CLC contempt of court order and ‘militia’ arrest warrant to a District Judge. By use of threats and threatening communications, Myers and co-conspirators attempted to influence, intimidate, obstruct, and impede jurors and officers in and of the Courts of the United States. For instance, they endeavored to intimidate a jury panel with a CLC ‘contempt of court order,’ in which they threatened arrest by ‘militia’ for alleged acts of treason.”

    The office of U.S. Attorney Robert E. O’Neill of the Middle District of Florida described Myers as president of the so-called “Pinellas Patriots” in the Tampa region.

    “He claimed that he was not a citizen of the United States, but a so-called sovereign citizen who was not subject to U.S. statutory laws,” O’Neill’s office said. “Myers participated in a sham ‘Common Law Court’ in a number of capacities, including as a ‘judge’ and a ‘militia enforcement officer.’ Between March 1994 and March 1996, Myers participated in a conspiracy with others, to obstruct justice by conveying threatening communications to state and federal judges, petit and grand jurors, and others, in order to obtain federal rulings in criminal cases, dismissals of indictments and release from incarceration for individuals who had been lawfully convicted.”

    U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday ordered the 78-month sentence.

    TIGTA and the FBI led the probe.

    Curtis Richmond, a mainstay in the AdSurfDaily Ponzi scheme story, was a member of a similar sham entity in Utah.

    A website linked to an emerging HYIP known as JSS Tripler/JustBeenPaid has showcased videos of purported Alaska “sovereign citizen” and “militia” leader Francis Schaeffer Cox. Cox and others are on trial amid allegations they hatched a plot against government officials.

    Cox allegedly participated in a so-called common-law court that operated at a Denny’s Restaurant.

    The sham entity with which Richmond was associated was known derisively as the “Arby’s Indians” because it once held a meeting at an Arby’s restaurant in Utah. Richmond was sued successfully under the federal RICO statute, and once was found guilty of contempt in California for threatening federal judges.

    In a Utah case involving Richmond, a bogus lien for $250 million was placed against a county attorney and a false claim for $300,000 was made against a Family Services worker in the state. The bogus “tribe” conducted a “Supreme Court” that used the address of a Utah doughnut shop and also relied on a bogus “arbitration” panel to make mischief in the state.

    Richmond repeatedly sought to intervene in the ASD case, at one time accusing the judge overseeing the case of “treason” and suggesting she and federal prosecutors were guilty of dozens of felonies.

    Richmond’s theory of the ASD case was that the government was guilty of interfering in commerce. The U.S. Secret Service described ASD as an international Ponzi scheme that had gathered at least $110 million from the small town of Quincy in northern Florida.

    Kenneth Wayne Leaming, another ASD story mainstay and purported “sovereign citizen,” is jailed near Seattle on charges of filing bogus liens against at least five public officials involved in the ASD case.