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  • BULLETIN: AdSurfDaily Figure And Purported ‘Sovereign Citizen’ Kenneth Wayne Leaming Now Seeks To File Another Lawsuit

    Kenneth Wayne Leaming
    Kenneth Wayne Leaming

    BULLETIN: (UPDATED 12:35 P.M. ET U.S.A.) AdSurfDaily figure and purported “sovereign citizen” Kenneth Wayne Leaming has reached out from jail again in a bid to sue the government and officeholders.

    Leaming, 57, is detained in the SeaTac federal-detention facility near Seattle on charges of filing false liens against at least five public officials involved in the ASD Ponzi case and other crimes. He was arrested by an FBI terrorism Task Force in November 2011. Since his arrest, Leaming has filed lawsuits against President Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder, the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Washington and a county sheriff in Arkansas.

    Filings in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia — the venue from which the ASD Ponzi prosecution was brought — now show that Leaming is seeking to sue Holder anew, along with a federal prison official in Washington state. Leaming originally sued Holder and Obama in a different venue.

    His new claims make Holder a prospective defendant in the D.C. District Court and make new claims against the Attorney General.

    The case is docketed as “unassigned” to a specific judge, but U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer — an alleged target of one of Leaming’s false liens and the presiding judge in the ASD case — has issued an order that requires Leaming to submit certain paperwork to the court before the case can proceed. The January docket for the D.C. district suggests that Collyer’s duties this month have included the initial responses to complaints brought by individuals desiring to sue members of government.

    Leaming does not appear to be making an ASD-related claim in his most recent case. Even so, it is possible that Collyer would remove herself from any Leaming-related process moving forward because of the FBI allegations he filed a false lien against her in Washington state.

    In the new filing in the D.C. District, Leaming appears to be trying to make a damages claim against a SeaTac prison official while simultaneously making a claim against Holder. The earlier case against Holder and Obama was tossed in the Western District of Washington months ago. Following a Birther conspiracy theory, it alleged that Obama was not born in the United States and thus was inelegible to be President — and that Holder was a bogus Attorney General because he’d been appointed by a bogus President.

    Leaming now is demanding damages paid in “United States Silver Eagle Dollars,” amid allegations he was denied access to a law library. In his earlier case against Holder and Obama, he demanded payment in gold in silver.

  • UPDATE: 1-Percent-A-Day Ponzi Schemer Andy Bowdoin Of AdSurfDaily In Custody Of U.S. Marshals And On Way To Federal Prison

    Andy Bowdoin's booking photo in the District of Columbia.

    Convicted AdSurfDaily Ponzi schemer Andy Bowdoin is in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service and is listed “in transit” to a federal detention facility, according to court filings and the Federal Bureau of Prisons website.

    Where Bowdoin, 77, will do his time has not yet been revealed. But a criminal judgment against Bowdoin signed Sept. 21 by U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer included a recommendation that Bowdoin be incarcerated “at a Low or Minimum Security facility near Tallahassee,” Fla.

    Bowdoin’s ASD, which purported to pay members 1 percent a day, operated in Quincy, Fla., a short drive from Tallahassee.

    On Aug. 29, Collyer sentenced Bowdoin to 78 months. He pleaded guilty to a Ponzi-related charge of wire fraud in May and admitted ASD was a Ponzi scheme.

    Bowdoin had been held at a jail in the District of Columbia since June 12, the date his bond was revoked after federal prosecutors proffered evidence that he continued to commit crimes after the U.S. Secret Service raided ASD in 2008.

    The Secret Service said last month that it also was investigating Zeek Rewards, another 1-percent-a-day-plus “program.” The SEC has described Zeek as a $600 million Ponzi- and pyramid scheme.

    ASD gathered at least $119 million, according to court filings.

    Zeek and ASD are known to have had members in common.