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  • Is Andy Bowdoin Renewing His Efforts To Have Federal Judge Removed From Case? Accused Ponzi Swindler Faces New Filing Deadline To Argue For Case Transfer

    Andy Bowdoin

    Accused Ponzi swindler Andy Bowdoin of Florida-based AdSurfDaily has been granted an extra two weeks to argue that the criminal case against him should be transferred from U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

    Through his attorneys, Bowdoin informed U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer on Jan. 3 that he intends to file a Rule 21 motion to transfer his trial to another federal court. Under Rule 21, a defendant can argue that he cannot receive a fair and impartial trial in a specific district. Meanwhile, a defendant can argue that the trial should be moved for the convenience of the parties and witnesses.

    It was not immediately clear if prosecutors would oppose the motion. Bowdoin initially was ordered by a federal magistrate judge to file his motion within two weeks of his Dec. 17 arraignment in Washington. Collyer now has granted Bowdoin’s request for an extension to file. The new deadline is Jan. 18.

    In December 2009, Bowdoin sought to have Collyer removed from the civil-forfeiture case in which the U.S. Secret Service seized tens of millions of dollars from his personal bank accounts. Collyer refused to step down. In January 2010, she decreed the money forfeited to the U.S. government, which has established a process through which ASD victims can file a claim for a share of the seized proceeds.

    In an affidavit in support of his 2009 disqualification motion, Bowdoin claimed Collyer had a “deep seated animosity” toward him and that the judge “has a personal bias and prejudice” against him.

    Ironically, Bowdoin’s motion to disqualify Collyer in the civil case was docketed on Dec. 17, 2009. Exactly one year to the day later — on Dec. 17, 2010 — Bowdoin made his first appearance in the criminal case in the District of Columbia. Federal agents arrested Bowdoin in Florida on Dec. 1, 2010, after an indictment from a grand jury that began meeting in May 2009 was unsealed.

    Collyer did not preside over Bowdoin’s initial appearance in Washington, but has been assigned the criminal case. She issued her first ruling yesterday: a minute order that granted Bowdoin’s request for the two-week extension to file his Rule 21 motion.

    ASD member Curtis Richmond, who emerged as a figure in the civil litigation after filing pro se pleadings that accused Collyer and Chief U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth of operating a “Kangaroo Court,” also sought unsuccessfully to have Collyer removed from the case in 2009.

    Richmond has been linked to a sham Utah “Indian” tribe that once sought unsuccessfully to have a federal judge removed from a different case on the eve of trial by claiming the judge owed Richmond $30 million.

  • Two New Motions To Intervene Filed In ASD Case

    Using the Curtis Richmond litigation blueprint, two new motions to intervene have been filed in the AdSurfDaily forfeiture case.

    The motions were filed by Ronald Breckenfelder of Littleton, Colo., and John R. Moore of Ames, Iowa. The motions accuse U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer, U.S. Attorney Jeffrey A Taylor, and Assistant U.S. Attorney William Cowden of committing crimes.

    In addition, the motions accuse the judge, the prosecutors and Chief Judge Royce Lamberth of conspiring to deny ASD members justice. Collyer and Lamberth specifically were accused of operating a “Kangaroo Court.”

    As was the case in two previous motions to intervene, including a motion filed by Richmond himself, Collyer placed a hand-written note on the cover pages of the motions.

    “Let this be filed,” she wrote. Collyer has used the exact same wording on each of four motions to intervene filed in the ASD case in recent weeks.

    The documents order Collyer to set aside the ASD forfeiture within 30 days or face criminal or civil prosecution.  At the same time, court documents filed with the motions include a list of demands made on prosecutors and Agent Roy Dotson of the U.S. Secret Service to produce “Legal Evidence” within seven days or face legal action.

    Richmond is associated with a sham Utah Indian tribe that has been successfully sued under racketeering statutes for bringing vexatious legal proceedings against judges, prosecutors and police officers. He also has been convicted of contempt of court for threatening federal judges.

    The tribe is known derisively as the “Arby’s Indians” because it once held a meeting in an Arby’s restaurant in Provo, Utah. A sham “Supreme Court” set up by the tribe used the address of a conference room attached to a doughnut shop in Utah as its chambers.

    One prong of the “Indian” strategy is to place enormous judgments against public officials in a bid to extort a litigation result. Recent motions in the ASD case that have used the Richmond blueprint have said an ASD member by the name of Alana Holsted has been prevented from collecting on a $30 million judgment because of conspiratorial actions by the judge and prosecutors.

    The Holstead claim appears to seek a total of $120 million in judgments for the alleged offenses of Interference With Commerce and Interference With Interstate Commerce.

  • BREAKING NEWS: Curtis Richmond, Man Linked To Sham Utah ‘Indian’ Tribe, Files Motion To Intervene in ASD Case; Says Judge Collyer Faces Criminal Charges

    UPDATED 12:19 A.M. EST (FEB. 5, U.S.A.) Curtis Richmond has filed a motion to intervene in the ASD case. On the cover page of the motion, Judge Rosemary Collyer inserted a handwritten note:

    “Let this be filed,” she wrote.

    richmondasdmotion350Inside the motion Richmond accused the judge and a court clerk of felonies. He filed the motion as the chairman of Pacific Ministry of Giving International of Solana Beach, Calif.

    Pacific Ministry of Giving International had $41,000 at stake in ASD — including “Upgrade Bonuses promised between July 14th and Aug. 1, 2008” — and lost access to the money because of the government seizure, Richmond said.

    Richmond asserted that, if Collyer doesn’t do as he says and overturn the forfeiture, she is guilty of civil-rights violations and is violating U.S. law. He also threatened two federal prosecutors — U.S. Attorney Jeffrey A. Taylor of the District of Columbia and Assistant U.S. Attorney William Cowden — with “legal damages,” saying he had a “binding contract” with them as a result of certified mail he had sent them.

    Cowden and Taylor ignored ASD members’ Constitutional rights in the ASD asset seizure, did not properly notify members of the seizure and interfered with commerce, Richmond claimed.

    He accused Collyer, Taylor, Cowden and Court Clerk Nancy Mayer-Whittington of engaging in a conspiracy to deny justice. He specifically accused Collyer and the prosecutors of theft.

    “The U.S. Atty. and/or U.S. Judge Had No Authority or Jurisdiction to Steal Most of the $93 million of ASD Member Ownership Interest,” Richmond said, using a mix of uppercase and lowercase letters. “All of the ASD Members had a Constitutional Right to Make A Contract With ASD and None of the ASD Members had a Contract With the U.S. Government.”

    A nonlawyer representing himself, Richmond advanced his theory of the case:

    “Since the U.S. Atty. could not present any court order giving him Authority to Seize the $40 million of Cashier Checks and deposit them in an Account Of His Choosing, he is Guilty of Misappropriation of Funds [at] a minimum and very possibly Embezzlement,” Richmond claimed.

    Richmond claimed he had “irrefutable” evidence against Collyer and the prosecutors.

    “This was accomplished by sending by Return Receipt with a ‘Demand For Legal Evidence Affidavit’ to William Cowden, Assist. U.S. Atty., Jeffrey Taylor, U.S. Atty., and Roy Dotson, Special Agent, U.S. Secret Service[,] giving them 7 Days to present Legal Evidence that the Statements Made in the Demand For Legal Evidence[,] including the Listed Constitutional Rights, WERE FALSE,” Richmond claimed.

    “The Demand for Legal Evidence [was] part of Notarized Affidavits and clearly stated “Your Silence will be an Admission that you do not have the Legal Evidence,” he said.

    Cowden, Taylor and Dotson knowingly and willingly defaulted on his demands “because they had no Legal Evidence or believed they were above the law,” Richmond said. “Attorneys & Judges Are Not Above The Law. A Lawful Default Is a Lawful Default.”

    Richmond V. Collyer

    In his motion, Richmond said Collyer “sat on” a previous motion he attempted to file in the case in the days immediately prior to her November ruling that ASD had not demonstrated it was a legal business and not a Ponzi scheme. Richmond ultimately was denied leave to file.

    Richmond said he filed 19 affidavits in support of his claims, and that Collyer and Mayer-Whittington are guilty of at least 60 felonies, including felonies that include prison sentences of up to 12 years for each affidavit that wasn’t filed.

    “Judge Collyer had the Clerk of the Court Return All Of The Motion To Dismiss Affidavits[,] including the 19 Demand For legal Evidence Notarized Affidavits In Support to Curtis Richmond,” he said.

    “This is like having 21 Witnesses to a Murder,” Richmond continued. “Judge Collyer is Guilty As Charged . . .”

    One of the aims of Richmond’s motion appears to be to force Collyer to withdraw from the case. He accused her of operating a “Kangaroo Court.”

    He accused Chief U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth of becoming a co-conspirator, saying Lamberth also erected hurdles to block Richmond from filing as a party in the August forfeiture complaint against assets tied to ASD.

    “Either Judge Lamberth is unbelievably biased, believing he is Above The Law, or he does not know how to read the English language,” Richmond said.

    Lamberth also operated a “Kangaroo Court,” Richmond asserted.

    Richmond has a history of filing vexatious lawsuits and court motions, and of employing a strategy known as “Mailbox Arbitration” to hamstring prosecutors, judges, court clerks and others. He was convicted of criminal contempt of court in California in 2007 for threatening or trying to intimidate judges.

    Last year, a federal judge ruled an “Indian” tribe with which he is associated in Utah a “sham.” Various vexatious filings against public servants were made in the Wampanoag Nation, Tribe of Grayhead, Wolf Band case, and the judge ordered Richmond and other “tribe” members to pay damages and costs in excess of $100,000.

    In the “Indian” case, huge financial judgments against prosecutors and others were sought. At least one “tribe” member tried to enforce a bogus judgment in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

    In court filings, Richmond has claimed he was a “Sovereign” who answered only to Jesus Christ and enjoyed diplomatic immunity from prosecution.

    “Professor” Patrick Moriarty, a former board member of a defunct organization known as ASD Members International (ASDMI), associated himself with Richmond on Moriarty’s website. At the same time, Steve Watt, another former ASDMI board member, told visitors to TheJoyLuckClub ASD news site that Richmond’s court filings would lead to a major criminal complaint against members of the government.

    Before folding last month, ASDMI said on its website that it had recruited 167 members to litigate against the government in the ASD case. Moriarty also wrote of a certified-mail campaign and solicited funds to make it happen.

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    indianchildrenCurtis Richmond’s signature as “Arbitrator” for a “tribal” panel set up by a sham Utah “Indian” tribe. In this case, the panel issued a fraudulent award of $300,720 and interest at “18% per annum against the Utah Department of Child & Family Services in a family matter.

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    indianjudgeSham “Indian” arbitration panel issues award of $9,535.67 to sham “Indian chief.” The “award” was lodged against a judge, assessing the judge interest of 18 percent per annum and collection costs “not exceeding 30% of the principal sum.” The “chief,” Dale Stevens, later was arrested on child porn charges and announced his intention to marry two underage girls, including a 12-year-old, with whom he sought marriage in exchange for half a cooler of “energy bars.” Stevens, 69, acknowledged his plan in open court.