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UPDATE: Year Ago This Week, Prosecutors Filed Third AdSurfDaily Forfeiture Complaint — But 2 ASD Members Whose Bank Accounts Were Seized In Case Have Not Filed Claims

UPDATE: On Dec. 1, 2010, AdSurfDaily President Andy Bowdoin was arrested on charges of wire fraud, securities fraud and selling unregistered securities. Sixteen days later — on Dec. 17, 2010 — federal prosecutors filed a forfeiture complaint against certain ASD-related bank accounts, including an account in Bowdoin’s name and accounts allegedly controlled by ASD members…

Dec 12, 2011
NWITimes.com: Purported ‘Sovereign Citizen’ Found Guilty Of Using Counterfeit Money To Pay For Big-Screen TVs From Sears

NWITimes.com is reporting that Christopher H. Cannon, a purported “sovereign citizen,” has been found guilty in federal court in the Northern District of Indiana of using counterfeit currency to pay for big-screen TVs. The TVs were purchased at Sears, according to the NWITimes report. On Nov. 4, the IndyChannel.com reported that a purported Indiana “sovereign…

Dec 10, 2011
BULLETIN: Kenneth Wayne Leaming Will Remain In Jail; Judge At Bail Hearing Today Ruled Him A Flight Risk And Danger To The Community

BULLETIN: Purported “sovereign citizen” and AdSurfDaily figure Kenneth Wayne Leaming will remain jailed after a judge at a bail hearing today found that Leaming was a flight risk and a danger to the community, the office of U.S. Attorney Jenny A. Durkan of the Western District of Washington said this evening. Leaming, 55, of Spanaway,…

Dec 9, 2011
BULLETIN: Former Radio Host John Farahi Indicted In Alleged Ponzi Scheme; His Attorney Also Indicted Amid Allegations He Obstructed SEC Probe

BULLETIN: John Farahi, a former Los Angeles radio host who once was a member of the city council of Reno, Nev., has been indicted on dozens of counts of defrauding investors and banks out of at least $20 million, federal prosecutors in the Central District of California said. David Tamman, an attorney, was indicted amid…

Dec 8, 2011
BULLETIN: Feds Say Romanian Hackers Breached Computers Of Subway Sandwich Restaurants And More Than 50 Other Retailers; Credit-Card Data Of 80,000 Customers Compromised And ‘Millions Of Dollars Of Unauthorized Purchases Have Been Made’

BULLETIN: Three Romanian nationals have been arrested in the aftermath of a successful hacking bid that compromised the computer systems of Subway sandwich restaurants and 50 other retailers, the Justice Department, federal prosecutors in New Hampshire and the U.S. Secret Service said. One Romanian national remains at large. Authorities said credit-card data from tens of…

Dec 8, 2011
URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: Legisi HYIP Pitchman Matthew John Gagnon Named In Criminal Complaint By U.S. Secret Service

URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: Matthew J. Gagnon, an alleged online pitchman for the Legisi HYIP Ponzi scheme, has been named in a criminal complaint filed by the U.S. Secret Service. Gagnon, 42, of Portland Ore., and Weslaco, Texas, was accused civilly by the SEC in 2010 of being “a danger to the investing public,”…

Dec 7, 2011
DOTHAN EAGLE: Purported ‘Sovereign Citizen’ Travis Lee Lambert Charged In Alabama With Unauthorized Practice Of Law, Amid Allegations He Filed Pleadings For ‘Sovereign’ Girlfriend

Travis Lee Lambert, 61, of Andalusia, Ala., has been charged with the unauthorized practice of law amid allegations he filed court pleadings for his girlfriend, a convicted burglar, the Dothan Eagle newspaper is reporting. The office of Houston County Sheriff Andy Hughes brought the misdemeanor charges. The sheriff’s office did not respond immediately yesterday to a…

Dec 7, 2011
Purported Missouri ‘Sovereign Citizen’ With Revoked Driver’s License Loses DWI Trial After Citing U.S. Declaration Of Independence And Telling Jury Government Had No Authority Over Him, Prosecutors Say

“I give you no jurisdiction over me, and I do not submit to anything you say about me.” — Adam David Mael, purported “sovereign citizen” and “indigenous American,” to Missouri State Highway Patrol Trooper, Oct. 2, 2010. A Greater Kansas City man whose driver’s license was revoked for refusing a breath test in July 2010…

Dec 6, 2011
URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: SEC Says D.C. Attorney Brynee K. Baylor Was Running Prime-Bank Swindle With Frank L. Pavlico III, A Felon On Probation In Case Involving ‘Drug Trafficking’ Proceeds

UPDATED 10:04 A.M. ET (DEC. 8, U.S.A.) Frank L. Pavlico III — convicted in 2007 of felony conspiracy to conduct financial transactions involving the proceeds of drug trafficking and released in 2008 after serving his 10-month prison term — has been arrested for wire fraud by the FBI in an alleged prime-bank swindle that occurred while…

Dec 6, 2011
UPDATE: Andrew Isaac Chance, 65, Convicted Of Filing False Lien For $1.313 Billion Against Federal Prosecutor In Maryland

UPDATE: Andrew Isaac Chance, the Maryland man accused last year of filing a false lien against a federal prosecutor, has been convicted. Sentencing by U.S. District Judge Alexander Williams Jr. is set for Feb. 15, the Justice Department announced in a news release last month. Chance, a recidivist who filed the lien while on probation for…

Dec 5, 2011
‘Sovereign Citizen’ David Myrland Sentenced To Federal Prison For Threats; U.S. Attorney Jenny A. Durkan Lauds Mayor, City Officials Of Kirkland, Wash., For Courage During Sustained Intimidation Campaign

EDITOR’S NOTE: If Kirkland’s name sounds familiar to you — but you can’t quite place it — think about two of America’s great national pastimes: baseball and building things. Indeed, the city produced the 1982 Little League World Series champs, carding a thrilling win over a team from Taiwan, a youth-baseball powerhouse. Kirkland’s team became…

Dec 3, 2011