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Washington ‘Sovereign’ Tax Preparer Sentenced to Prison
05 days ago
An accountant who took his antigovernment “sovereign citizen” views to work with him is going to prison, and many of his former clients are faced with huge, unpaid tax bills.
Timothy Garrison, 60, of Mount Vernon, Wash., was sentenced Wednesday to 42 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $95,626 in restitution after pleading guilty [...]
Jury Convicts Texas ‘Sovereign’ Who Shot at Cop
06 days ago
UPDATE 2.2.12: The jury sentenced James Michael Tesi to 35 years in prison.
A self-described “sovereign citizen,” who also called himself a “Moorish American,” has been convicted in Fort Worth, Texas, of shooting at a police officer who tried to arrest him for traffic violations last summer.
James Michael Tesi, 49, was taken into custody following the [...]
IRS Sends ‘Sovereign’ Inmate $327,456, But Not For Long
01 week ago
Everyone has heard of jailhouse lawyers. How about a jailhouse accountant – an antigovernment “sovereign citizen” doing time in New York – who got a $327,456 tax return from the IRS?
Ronald Williams not only filed 12 fraudulent tax returns for himself while behind bars, he also reportedly helped at least 10 other New York state [...]
Another ‘Sovereign’ Accused of Shooting at Police in Texas
02 weeks ago
A self-described “sovereign citizen” – part of what the FBI recently described as a growing and dangerous antigovernment movement – goes on trial this week near Fort Worth, Texas, on charges of aggravated assault on a public servant.
James Michael Tesi is accused of shooting at police officer John Fossett in the Fort Worth suburb of [...]
Neo-Confederate League of the South Espouses Posse Comitatus Ideology
03 weeks ago
Affirming his group’s embrace of antigovernment “Patriot” ideology, League of the South (LOS) President Michael Hill on Monday sent members an E-Mail declaring the federal government an “organized criminal enterprise” led by “domestic terrorists” and telling his followers to prepare for a fight.
“I discourage the formation of private militias except as a last resort,” he [...]
‘Sovereign Citizen’ Guru Back in Custody, Facing New Charges
01 month ago
An antigovernment “sovereign citizen” indicted nearly three years ago in a money laundering case is back in custody and being returned this week to U.S. District Court in Nevada.
Shawn Talbot Rice surrendered and was arrested on Dec. 22 after a day-long standoff with FBI agents and local police in Seligman, Ariz.
Taken before a federal judge [...]
Pennsylvania Cop Shot Dead by Man Described as Reclusive Survivalist
01 month ago
The suspect who shot and killed a Pennsylvania police officer and wounded a second policeman over the weekend died himself Monday in a gunfight with lawmen who surrounded his house in Webster, Pa.
Eli Franklin Myers III, 58, died in a hail of gunfire after he exited his home on Logan Street, firing a large-caliber handgun [...]
‘Sovereign Citizen’ Sentenced for ‘Deadly Force’ Threats
02 months ago
An antigovernment “sovereign citizen” will spend 40 months in prison for threatening to use “deadly force” to arrest various government officials, including the mayor of Kirkland, Wash.
David Russell Myrland, sentenced Friday in U.S. District Court in Seattle, has made his living for the past 20 years through the unauthorized practice of law and by teaching [...]
Sovereign Citizen Targets Supreme Court Chief Justice and FBI Director
02 months ago
Anti-government sovereign citizens will file frivolous paperwork against anyone – even mailing their bogus legal documents to the home of the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and the director of the FBI.
Those allegations are contained in a 17-page criminal complaint just filed in U.S. District Court in Seattle accusing Kenneth Wayne Leaming of [...]
Another ‘Sovereign’ Guilty of Filing Bogus Tax Returns
03 months ago
A Washington accountant with ties to the antigovernment “sovereign citizens” movement has pleaded guilty to preparing false income tax returns that cheated the U.S. government out of an estimated $2.5 million.
Federal prosecutors will recommend that Timothy George Garrison, 59, of Mount Vernon, Wash., spend four years in prison when he is sentenced on Feb. 2 [...]