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‘MoneyMakingBrain,’ Advocate For JSS Tripler/JustBeenPaid, Emails Threats To PP Blog; ‘That’s Not A Threat, It’s A Promise,’ First Email Claims; Second Suggests He’ll Create Banking Trouble For Blog Poster And Defend JSS Tripler Operator ‘So Help Me God’

“Either we talk about here, or I talk about somewhere else (that’s not a threat, it’s a promise :)” — ‘MoneyMakingBrain (MMB), in email threat to PP Blog, Feb. 29, 2012, 7:52 a.m. ET UPDATED 4:22 P.M. ET (U.S.A.) It has happened again: The PP Blog has received yet another threat via email for its…

Feb 29, 2012
SPECIAL REPORT: Domain Registered To Purported JSS Tripler Operator Features Videos Of ‘Sovereign Citizen’ Accused In Alleged Alaska Murder Plot Against Public Officials; Meanwhile, Americans Listen To ‘Frederick Mann’ Tell Them That Even A ‘1-Year-Old’ Can Have An Account And That Adults Can Open Accounts For Others; Separate Sites Have Links To Antitax Screeds And Debt-Elimination Schemes

Visitors to BuildFreedom.com are greeted by a drop-down ad for JSS Tripler/JustBeenPaid that encourages them to register with a free Gmail address from Google for the outlandish “program” and its purported return of 2 percent a day. At least 11 videos featuring Francis Schaeffer Cox are accessible on the BuildFreedom page, which features remarks attributed…

Feb 27, 2012
WILLFUL BLINDNESS: With Legisi Operator Now Convicted Of Wire Fraud, HYIP Colleague And Fellow Ponzi-Forum Darling Nicholas Smirnow Of Pathway To Prosperity Listed As ‘Wanted’ By INTERPOL; Meanwhile, Cheerleading For JSS Tripler Continues

After the news broke yesterday that Gregory N. McKnight, the accused operator of the Legisi HYIP Ponzi scheme, had pleaded guilty to wire fraud in a $72 million caper, things only got worse for the serial Ponzi-forum cheerleaders — not that they’re likely to abandon their practice of willful blindness while reaching across oceans to…

Feb 25, 2012
BIRTH OF A ‘SOVEREIGN’ VERB: Appeals Court Upholds Convictions In ‘False-Liens’ Case In Which Defendant Called Law ‘A[**] Wipe’ And Declared He’d ‘Lien . . . Down’ Even On Court-Appointed Defense Counsel; Co-Defendant Was Figure In SEC’s Gold Quest International Ponzi Case And Sought To File Bizarre Lawsuit Against Agency

“I don’t want to see a lawyer. If you do, I’m going to lien him down fast.” — Gregory Allen Davis addressing U.S. Magistrate Judge Alice R. Senechal of North Dakota in a false-liens case that evolved from events in 2010 and earlier UPDATED 5:14 P.M. ET (U.S.A.) The word “lien” is a noun. But…

Feb 20, 2012
RECOMMENDED READING: ‘Sovereign’ Reports: Mayor Of Fayetteville, N.C., Retracts Proclamation Declaring ‘Moorish American Week’; New Jersey Man Allegedly Declares He’s A ‘Sovereign’ After Bizarre Encounter With Allentown (Pa.) Police In Middle Of The Night

As the website of the purported “Moorish American National Government” informs visitors that 11 U.S. mayors “have issued official proclamations in recognition of Moorish American Week,” the mayor of Fayetteville, N.C., tells the Fayetteville Observer that he is withdrawing the proclamation he approved. An obscure group called “Moorish Americans” has “attempted to file court documents…

Feb 18, 2012
Reputed Colorado ‘Sovereign Citizen’ Matthew O’Neill Pleads Guilty To Providing False Information After Mailing White Powder To State Department Of Revenue; Envelope Triggered Terrorism Scare And Evacuation Of Employees From Government Building

On May 17, 2011, Matthew “Matt” O’Neill, 52, entered a post office in Kremmling, Colo., and “filled out documents for certified or registered mail,” federal prosecutors said. O’Neill, though, did not immediately put his envelope in the mail. Instead, he left the post office and “reentered several times before finally mailing” it, prosecutors said. By…

Feb 18, 2012
BULLETIN: Andrew Isaac Chance Sentenced To 65 Months In Federal Prison For False-Lien And Tax Scams; ‘Tax Defier’ Filed Bogus UCC Statement For $1.313 Billion Against Federal Prosecutor, Justice Department Says

BULLETIN: Andrew Isaac Chance, the Maryland man described by the Justice Department as a “tax defier” and recidivist fraudster who filed a bogus lien for $1.313 billion against a federal prosecutor, has been sentenced to 65 months in federal prison. Chance, a retired station manager of the Washington (D.C.) Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, explained that…

Feb 16, 2012
Man Accused In Murder Of Prominent Arizona Couple Tells Judge He Reserves ‘Right To Uniform Commercial Code,’ Raising Specter Of ‘Sovereign’ Killer

EDITOR’S NOTE: As the PP Blog was preparing this story for publication today, Michael Crane was charged with a third murder. The victim, Bruce Gaudet, was found in a burning home Jan. 26, four days before the fire at the home of Lawrence and Glenna Shapiro. The story of the Shapiro homicides and Crane’s first…

Feb 15, 2012
UNBELIEVABLE: ‘Sovereign Citizen’ Imprisoned For Harassing Mayor Of Kirkland, Wash., Files Lawsuit Against Federal Prosecutors; Complaint By David Russell Myrland Apparently Alleges ‘Grammar’ Conspiracy By Public Officials

UPDATED 3:38 P.M. ET (U.S.A.) David Russell Myrland, the Washington state “sovereign citizen” ordered in December 2011 to spend 40 months in federal prison for threatening the mayor of Kirkland and other public officials, has filed a lawsuit against federal prosecutors in Seattle that alleges (apparently) that law enforcement engaged in a grammar conspiracy against…

Feb 14, 2012
BULLETIN: David Carroll Stephenson, Alleged Accomplice Of AdSurfDaily Figure And Purported ‘Sovereign Citizen’ Kenneth Wayne Leaming, Now Jailed Near Seattle; Feds Say False Liens Totaling $30 Million Were Filed Against Prison Officials

BULLETIN: David Carroll Stephenson, an alleged business associate of AdSurfDaily figure and purported “sovereign citizen” Kenneth Wayne Leaming, has been moved from a federal prison in Arizona to the SeaTac federal detention center near Seattle to answer charges that he conspired with Leaming to file false liens against two Federal Bureau of Prisons officials. Leaming,…

Feb 14, 2012
DEVELOPING STORY: U.S.-Based Website Listed In JSS Tripler-Related Action In Italy Suddenly Will Not Resolve To Server; Redirect To The Netherlands No Longer Works

Are the Ponzi clouds darkening for JSS Tripler? On Feb. 4, the PP Blog reported that a JSS Tripler-related website listed in an action by CONSOB, the Italian securities regulator, was based in the United States and had been programmed to redirect to the Netherlands several days after CONSOB announced the action. That domain —…

Feb 10, 2012