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Without Prejudice.

Originally Posted by David Merrill
It would be interesting to finally hear from you Shoonra, why you belittle the lawful remedy provided in the Federal Reserve Act.

What attorney likes to see a someone use silver return to Kansas?

[David Merrill]

In that respect Shoonra is certainly run-of-the-mill.

[Shoonra]

from today's (Friady May 30th) Seattle Post-Intelligencer:


http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/...xscheme31.html

Feds shut down local tax-fraud scheme

Last updated May 30, 2008 4:01 p.m. PT

By PHUONG CAT LE
P-I REPORTER

A federal judge has shut down a Tacoma woman's tax-fraud scheme that purported to show customers how they weren't liable for federal income tax, the U.S. Justice Department announced Friday.

Sharon Kukhahn charged customers between $1,750 to $3,195 for so-called tax "decoding" services. U.S. District Court Judge Benjamin Settle found that Kukhahn falsely purported to "decode" and "correct" Internal Revenue Service [regulations] to reflect that her customers weren't subject to federal income taxes.

"There is no magic way to make federal income taxes disappear," said Nathan Hochman, Assistant Attorney General for the department's tax division. "Those who pay for and implement frivolous scams like the one enjoined by the court here are wasting their money."

A call and e-mail requesting comment from Kukhahn were not immediately returned.

Kukhahn ran businesses called IMF Decoder, Paralegal Research Advocates and Advocates for Justice, Liberty and Freedom.

She falsely told potential customers they weren't required to pay federal income taxes unless they live in a U.S. territory, and that U.S. residents may be taxed only by a federal excise tax and only if they are involved in an excise-taxable enterprise, according to the court order.

The IRS found that her scheme caused revenue losses of about $4.9 million as a result of her customers' failure to file tax returns and pay taxes, according to the court order.

Kukhahn marketed her services at Pinnacle Quest International seminars. Her case is one of three civil injunction complaints filed last month in federal courts seeking to halt tax-fraud schemes related to PQI.

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[David Merrill]

True; no magic way;


But there is the remedy provided in the 1913 Fed Act and codified in Title 12 USC §411:

http://www.silverbearcafe.com/private/convincing.html
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...06869308133588


Read the text link along with the article in the video as the video is a little small on Google.


Regards,

David Merrill.

[fulltitle]

Originally Posted by David Merrill

In that respect Shoonra is certainly run-of-the-mill.

Without Prejudice.
Which is why Shoonra would put the thread in the Success Stories category.

[Shoonra]

from the Las Vegas Review-Journal, June 14, 2008:

Jun. 14, 2008
Copyright © Las Vegas Review-Journal


Tax activist fights contempt charges

Schiff denies disrupting federal trial in 2005

REVIEW-JOURNAL
By ADRIENNE PACKER

Anti-income tax proponent Irwin Schiff's behavior during his federal trial three years ago could earn the 80-year-old felon an additional month in prison.

U.S. District Judge Kent Dawson slapped Schiff with 15 counts of contempt of court last month and scheduled a hearing June 24.

Schiff, who was found guilty of conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service, tax evasion and filing false returns, was sentenced in 2006. He is scheduled to be released in October 2016. Schiff represented himself during the trial in Dawson's courtroom.

In his orders, Dawson claims Schiff repeatedly disrupted and delayed the 2005 trial proceedings.

Dawson said that on several occasions Schiff:

• Offered leading questions intended to make the witness speculate what Schiff was thinking.

• Asked questions to elicit irrelevant testimony.

• Offered testimony while he was questioning witnesses and not under oath.

Schiff "did argue with the Court over its ruling and did engage in theatrics and did describe the actions of the Court as 'silly' after numerous warnings to desist," Dawson wrote in his order.

On Friday, Schiff, who is incarcerated in Terre Haute, Ind., asked for additional time to prepare for the hearing. In his response, Schiff requested a full transcript of the trial and denied any wrongdoing or inappropriate behavior on his part.

"For Schiff to establish the mischaracterization and unwarranted nature of the charges at issue, Schiff would need trial transcript pages showing the exact circumstances out of which the contempt charge emerged," Schiff wrote.

"Schiff, at this point, is totally at a loss to understand whether or not this is an adversarial proceeding, and, if so, who is his adversary?" he wrote.

During the trial, Schiff and his cohorts took to the radio airwaves to stir up other anti-tax proponents.

Dawson said this month that spectators at the trial would shout "objection" in the middle of proceedings, acid was poured on the vehicles of IRS agents, and court employees' tires were punctured.

Dawson was in fear of his life. For months a U.S. Marshal drove him and his wife around town and even on a trip to the mountains.

Contact reporter Adrienne Packer at apacke@reviewjournal.com or 702-384-8710.

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In his recent disasterous court case, Schiff actually suggested, himself, that he was suffering from diminished mental capacity. Considering that he had lost several earlier court cases, and been imprisoned at least two times, the court decided that he wasn't just a slow learner. His latest prison sentence may well mean that he dies in prison.

[Shoonra]

Gilbert doctor guilty in tax evasion, mail fraud
by David Van Den Berg
Jun. 27, 2008 02:20 PM
The Arizona Republic

A federal jury has found a Gilbert physician guilty on 18 felony counts related to tax evasion and mail fraud, the U.S. Attorney's Office said in a statement Friday.

Carlin Grant Bartschi, M.D, 60, tried to evade the assessment and collection of federal income tax he and his wife owed for tax years from 1999 to 2002, evidence showed. He also tried to avoid paying federal income tax, interest and penalties for tax years 1993, 1995 through 1997 and 2000 through 2003, the statement said. Bartschi also created and presented five different fictitious checks or bonds for payment of federal tax assessments, which were prepared to appear like they were drawn upon a nonexistent account at the U.S. Department of Treasury. In submitting the false obligations to the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. District Court, Bartschi was found to have used the U.S. Mail fraudulently.

Each tax evasion conviction carries a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison, a $100,000 fine or both, the attorney's office said. Each conviction for submission of a fictitious financial obligation carries a maximum penalty of 25 years in prison, and each mail fraud conviction means a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison. Each count for both offenses also means a maximum $250,000 fine.

Bartschi, who continues to work as an emergency room physician in Globe, remains free pending sentencing Sept. 8 in Phoenix.

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[indago]

Shoonra posted:
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Bartschi also created and presented five different fictitious checks or bonds for payment of federal tax assessments, which were prepared to appear like they were drawn upon a nonexistent account at the U.S. Department of Treasury.
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So, what's that all about?

[Shoonra]

Originally Posted by indago

So, what's that all about?

It means that Bartschi tried to use some of the funny money advocated by a few people on this forum -- stuff churned out of their typewriters (under a number of different and misleading names, such as "certified promissory note" or "reegistered bill of exchange") that pretended that the US Treasury or the US Post Master would somehow make money appear to pay the debt. As this stuff is worthless, and falsely pretends that the govt will pay something, it's a "fictitious obligation", a form of fraud that was expressly added to the counterfeiting laws in 1996.

[indago]

If Mr. Bartschi tendered a note in payment of a debt, then the note must have been drawn on an account somewhere that he claims to have an interest in. After all, that is the premise of a note: that it is drawn on an account that is capable of paying the amount due.