Sovereign citizens guilty in federal bank fraud trial

Source: Knoxville News Sentinel

A federal jury found two members of the sovereign citizens movement guilty Thursday of plotting to rip off a bank in a scheme based on electronic sleight-of-hand.

Jurors declared Randall Keith Beane and Heather Ann Tucci-Jarraf guilty of conspiracy to launder money. They also convicted Beane of wire fraud.

Read more: https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/crime/2018/01/31/tennessee-sovereign-citizens-trial-randall-bean-heather-ann-tucci-jarraf/1084220001/

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This is a landmark case in the fight against one of the most disastrous sovereign citizen beliefs, the "secret account" scam. It's also a case I've been watching since it started, and the good guys finally won.

In the mid-1980s, white supremacist Roger Elvick decided he didn't like the government giving "free money" to "those people" ("those people," in this case, being anyone receiving public assistance) and devised a lie whose widespread acceptance boggles the mind: after the US went off the gold standard they needed something else to back the currency with and they chose to sell its citizens on the stock market. To accomplish this, the government started opening secret bank accounts whenever a child is born in America, the accounts contain more money than you can possibly spend in a lifetime, they are traded on Wall Street by evil bankers and the Rothschilds, and by using an exact combination of forms, timing and...I guess holding your mouth the right way...you can take all this money for yourself.

While it is more than bizarre that anyone would believe this for a minute, YouTube is full of videos telling you "exactly" how to access your secret account. Everyone has a different method. Some people write "accepted for value" on their bills, add their social security numbers with the number 22 appended to either the beginning or end (this is the account number for your secret account), and mail them back to the creditor. Some people have created checks with the Federal Reserve Bank's routing number and their SSN (yes, with the 22 added) as the account number. Others use promissory notes or Electronic Funds Transfer processes. None of them actually work and the debtor gets in more trouble than he or she was in by trying this, but that doesn't stop them from trying.

Back to the instant case. Randall Keith Beane had debts no honest man could pay. In Springsteen songs this normally ends with the debtor killing someone. Beane went on YouTube and discovered long-term Sovereign Citizen guru Heather Ann Tucci-Jarraf, who is also known (and will be referred to in this comment as such) as HATJ. HATJ is a graduate of Gonzaga University School of Law in Spokane, WA, which is a good law school. Unfortunately, she wasn't a good attorney. She eventually turned in her license and helped to found One People's Public Trust (OPPT).

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/One_People%27s_Public_Trust

On December 25, 2012, OPPT electronically filed UCC-1 forms through the District of Columbia Clerk of Court's online recording service. These documents claimed to foreclose on all governments, all major corporations and all banks. When the DC Clerk of Court ignored the filings (because they believed, with great justification, that the notion of foreclosing on all the governments and corporations in the world is totally insane), OPPT applied the legal maxim that "an unrebutted affidavit stands as truth" and announced to the world that there were no more governments, no more corporations and everyone's debts had been erased. More important, because the banks and all have been eliminated everyone gets $10 billion in free gold and silver. Some of HATJ's followers stopped paying their bills and, when the banks asked for their money, delivered an OPPT-created "courtesy notice" that essentially told the bank that since OPPT had foreclosed on the bank and dissolved the government they could go screw themselves. The banks, who had not agreed to be foreclosed on by some random person off the street, did not go screw themselves.

Ten months later, HATJ realized not enough people understood she'd foreclosed on the government (so they could tear off their license plates) or the banks (so they could stop paying their bills), so they asked their followers for money to buy motor homes in which they would conduct the "OPAL" (it means One People Absent Limits) Tour. HATJ told her followers they had special MKUltra-and-COINTELPRO-suppressed free energy technology that would allow the RVs to run on nothing but water. They spent the entire tour begging their fans for PayPal donations to buy more gasoline to power the vans. At the end of their subsidized vacation, in which they didn't convert anyone to believing the government had been dissolved, they sold the RVs and kept the money.

(Don't worry. It gets crazier.)

Naima "HopeGirl" Feagan and James Robitaille run "Fix the World." This used to be a pure free energy play (it was when it started; now they're doing alternative medicine and Hillary-bashing). Robitaille is an actual electrical engineer; he designed the vacuum cleaner that comes in the top-of-the-line Honda Odyssey minivan. (Consumer Reports says it's a really good vacuum cleaner, but the package that includes it costs $2500.) Robitaille and Feagan learned about Timothy Thrapp's faith-based free energy group WITTS, ripped off Thrapp's free energy maker, renamed it Quantum Energy Generator, and started selling it. HATJ and HopeGirl decided to move to Morocco and set up a free energy commune to provide clean drinking water and unlimited power to a small village. Eventually the Moroccan government threw them out...either that or the villagers imported cannibals to clean up the place. Either way, HATJ came back to the US.

In July 2017, Beane and HATJ got together. Beane, who is (or was, anyway) an accountholder at USAA, a bank that only does business with GIs, used Federal Reserve Bank routing numbers and variations on his own SSN to attempt to "purchase" $30 million in certificates of deposit. The USAA computer actually let $1.5 million of them go through. While the CDs were still in the float stage, he cashed them out, deposited the money in his own account, paid off all his bills, bought an $80,000 vehicle and a $500,000 motor home. The FBI found out he was at the dealership and raced over there to pick him up...they got him while the engine on the RV was running and he was about to pull out of the parking lot.

They got HATJ because while Beane was busy stealing a motor home, HATJ was at the White House gate demanding an audience with Trump to get him to release all the accounts to the people. They drove her to Knoxville to stand trial beside Beane and, after some of the most insane testimony I've ever seen (name the conspiracy theory and they tried it), both were found guilty on all charges.

(Here's the indictment: https://steemit.com/news/@thelightreports/randall-beane-and-heather-ann-rucci-jarraf-indictment)