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In a development that could give pause to promoters of the purportedly “private” Profitable Sunrise scheme now on the radar of regulators in North America and Europe, a Florida man has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for his role in pitching a purported “opportunity” known as Queen Shoals. The announcement of the […]

DEVELOPING STORY: It is early and facts remain unclear. What’s known, according to local news reports, is that the FBI notified local police in the area of Chester County in southeastern Pennsylvania that agents would be operating in the region. Late yesterday  — sometime after 11 p.m. while some residents were sleeping — explosions were […]

Garfield M. Taylor, the Maryland man accused civilly by the SEC in November 2011 of duping charitable organizations and people of faith in a Ponzi scheme, now has been indicted on criminal charges, the FBI and federal prosecutors in the District of Columbia said. Taylor, 54, of Rockville, faces counts of wire fraud, securities fraud […]

BULLETIN: The U.S. Secret Service, the FBI and federal prosecutors in the Northern District of Georgia say a South Carolina man threatened on Facebook to kill the President of the United States. Patrick Randell McIntosh, 28, of Charleston, was indicted on charges of possessing three firearms and ammunition while under indictment for a felony and […]

BULLETIN: A purported “sovereign citizen” from Nanuet, N.Y., has been charged under state law with criminal possession of a weapon and under federal law with threatening to kill public officials and inciting Facebook visitors to carry out political assassinations. Lawrence Mulqueen, 49, claimed that a county’s sheriff is “the highest law enforcer in all the […]

UPDATED 12:28 P.M. (FEB. 27, U.S.A.) Kenneth Wayne Leaming, a figure in the AdSurfDaily Ponzi-scheme story and a purported “sovereign citizen,” is scheduled to go on trial today in federal court the Western District of Washington with co-defendant David Carroll Stephenson. Leaming is charged with filing false liens against public officials involved in the ASD […]

On Feb. 13, the PP Blog reported that a federal judge who was quoting from a pleading by AdSurfDaily figure and purported “sovereign citizen” Kenneth Wayne Leaming had referenced a domain styled peoplestrust1776.org. U.S. District Judge Ronald B. Leighton declared Leaming’s filing, which apparently cited the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC), “undecipherable.” The judge exempted prosecutors […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This post originally was published Jan. 24 at 7:33 p.m. It was updated Feb. 8 to include this editor’s note reflecting that Andy Bowdoin now is listed as an inmate at the federal prison camp in Pensacola, Fla. (Pensacola FPC.)  The original story published Jan. 24 appears below and includes some edits to […]

BULLETIN: (UPDATED 4:38 P.M. EDT U.S.A.) A federal grand jury in the Western District of Washington has returned a superseding indictment against AdSurfDaily figure and purported “sovereign citizen” Kenneth Wayne Leaming. It is the second superseding indictment against Leaming. The first was filed in 2012. The new indictment was returned yesterday, a day after the […]

BULLETIN: (UPDATED 1:36 P.M. ET U.S.A.) A prosecutor has been shot dead in an ambush outside a courthouse in Kaufman County, Texas, multiple media outlets are reporting. Two gunmen may be on the loose, and police are treating the shooting as an attack on the criminal-justice system, according to early reports. The prosecutor, an assistant […]

If you file a false lien against public officials and police in New York, you’d be committing a felony under a proposed new law sponsored by three Republican state Senators. The Senators have proposed that violators of the new law be punished by a fine of up to $10,000 per instance or serve up to […]