Frank26
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Iraq TV update
Boston bombing updates -
Boston bombing updates -
There is an excellent
thread about this in the Forum
I
present the following for you to consider, though upon seeing more photos and
posting the testimony at the top of this page I can't decide what is going on
here.It really looks like at least one actor was used in Boston
Notice that mister Vogt lost his legs entirely in Afghanistan in 2011. He appears to be one of the victims, and if so, where did he get that leg that is sticking out, stripped to the bone? This does not wash with me, that leg has GOT to be a prop.
This having been said, the photos DEFINITELY look real to me. Why Vogt was there with his little prop is beyond me. I think this was at least partially real, and they are PROVING IT this time.
HOWEVER, . . I have to admit, Vogt makes me want to call B.S. on the entire show . . . . . . .
Because . . . . . . .
Here at the bat man theater, we have the blood splashes going TOWARDS the door, rather than away from it. If someone really did run out of that theater bleeding, the blood splashes would be going the other way. This is an obvious setup, where the idiot who threw the blood down did it going the wrong direction.
Above we have Jessica Redfield (Ghawi's) damning tweet, - Jessica was one of the "dead" at Aurora, who witnessed another mass shooting a month earlier, and moved to a place with "five swimming pools and a lake" a few days before the "shooting". Nice payoff.
Below we have all the pictures of shot up children, bullet holes in the classrooms, children on stretchers and everything else of photographic proof from Sandy Hook:
So it's at least understandable why I am tempted to say no one got killed out in Boston, with mister NO LEGS suddenly sprouting one for show and all the cute photography tricks that were pulled in the past.
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Judge Dale, Ret’d ~ The Missing 13th Amendment
Judge
Dale, Ret’d ~ The Missing 13th Amendment
Posted on April 16, 2013 by Gillian
On or about March 20,
2013, the New Hampshire Legislature passed HB 638, recognizing Article XIII,
known by few as: “The Missing 13TH Amendment,” missing from the organic
Constitution of the United States of America. The legislative analysis offered
described a trite but secret history of this mystical amendment, which I have
encapsulated as follows:
During the American Civil War, the country was under Marshal Law by President Lincoln and after the War, Lincoln’s policies were to be abated and everything was supposed to return to normal but it didn’t happen quite that way. Congress passed the Organic Act of 1871, which created a government corporation within the District of Columbia, called: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. This new government corporation replaced the Municipal Charter for the District of Columbia, a move that egregiously led to the fraudulent rewrite and adoption of what appeared to be the organic American Constitution. This erroneous rewrite is described as a corporate “mission statement” with the original 13TH Amendment “omitted” and it was this Constitutional rewrite that was inadvertently published for all to see.
Members of royalty, PhD’s, lawyers, squires and bankers, “Titles of Nobility,” have left a historic wake of deceit, destruction and corruption behind them on this planet. I would like to believe it was the majority intent of the Founding Fathers and the first federal convention to shield America from those proven elements of destruction and corruption. In so doing they proposed and ratified several amendments, one being Article XIII or the 13th Amendment, specifically designed to bar candidates who held such “Titles of Nobility,” from ever holding a seat in government! Each year since 1871, Lincoln’s Marshal Law has been renewed by Congress and currently, all state and federal governments are dominated by legislators with “Titles of Nobility.” What was once regarded as a service to country is now a political career.
During the American Civil War, the country was under Marshal Law by President Lincoln and after the War, Lincoln’s policies were to be abated and everything was supposed to return to normal but it didn’t happen quite that way. Congress passed the Organic Act of 1871, which created a government corporation within the District of Columbia, called: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. This new government corporation replaced the Municipal Charter for the District of Columbia, a move that egregiously led to the fraudulent rewrite and adoption of what appeared to be the organic American Constitution. This erroneous rewrite is described as a corporate “mission statement” with the original 13TH Amendment “omitted” and it was this Constitutional rewrite that was inadvertently published for all to see.
Members of royalty, PhD’s, lawyers, squires and bankers, “Titles of Nobility,” have left a historic wake of deceit, destruction and corruption behind them on this planet. I would like to believe it was the majority intent of the Founding Fathers and the first federal convention to shield America from those proven elements of destruction and corruption. In so doing they proposed and ratified several amendments, one being Article XIII or the 13th Amendment, specifically designed to bar candidates who held such “Titles of Nobility,” from ever holding a seat in government! Each year since 1871, Lincoln’s Marshal Law has been renewed by Congress and currently, all state and federal governments are dominated by legislators with “Titles of Nobility.” What was once regarded as a service to country is now a political career.
“In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens at all, you can bet it was planned that way.” Franklin D. Roosevelt
The described “omission” of Article XIII [the missing 13th Amendment] and the “mission statement” – the fraudulent copy of the organic constitution – initiates the following ten [10] questions, which I answer as succinctly as I can.
1: How do you “omit” a Constitutional Article when they are all sequentially numbered?
Obviously this is a lawyer’s response by the New Hampshire Legislature because you cannot simply “omit” a Constitutional Amendment. They are sequentially numbered.
The original Article XIII was intentionally and methodically removed from existence, which took a number of years to complete and was NOT simply “omitted.” It required a conspiracy; a federal rewrite; the removal of all former texts and references to the original Article XIII and the domination of all the various state government legislatures by candidates holding “Titles of Nobility,” who would be willing to save their careers at any cost. This was all intentional on their part to complete and sustain its demise.
2: Why didn’t Lincoln’s Martial Law policies abate and the government return back to normal following the Civil War?
The federal government for the American Republic had imploded when the southern states decided to secede from the Union and walk out while Congress was still in session. Absent the presence of those southern state delegates, Congress could not adjourn and could not move forward for lack of a quorum! President Lincoln became the federal law under martial law until a new federal government could be assembled.
3:
President Lincoln was a lawyer, a Title of Nobility, and several delegates and
predecessors’ were lawyers. How can that be, given that the original 13th
Amendment prohibited persons possessing a “Title of Nobility” from ever holding
a seat in government and given that the 13th Amendment had not been “omitted”
until 1871, during the Lincoln Administration?
The truth is the American Republic never enjoyed a Constitutional government, beginning with the election of George Washington. George took office one year before the Constitution permitted. He subsequently overthrew the organic Constitution reinstated the British-owned Virginia Colony Corporation altered the Oath of Office requirements installed a corporate military government in place of a civilian government and replaced the Common Law with a commercial law known as “Admiralty” or “the law of the sea.” George then declared that: “All of America is now under water!”
George was a 32nd Degree Freemason and a descendant of William, the Prince of Orange, the Sovereign King of America, according to the signed copy of the “Paris Treaty of 1783.” This gave him the notion that he too could become King of America.
We have been taught to think and believe that George Washington was this great military man of honor, a hero and “The father of this country.” If you were a Congressman and part of that great political conspiracy squirreling away approximately three to four million a year, you might be inclined to believe that hogwash. But in actuality George was the first traitor to the American Republic. He was memorialized by Congress in the Washington Monument, a 555 foot tall sea level obelisk, representing that “America is now under water!”
4: Why was President Lincoln forced to declare martial law and exercise Executive Privilege to create policy during and after the Civil War, when martial law was always intended to be a temporary solution?
Martial law was imposed rather than admit that the Union was dissolved. Under martial law the Executive branch executed federal edicts until the Executive branch and Congress regrouped. War was declared as a distraction.
(As an aside) the Civil War was never about the slave question. What we learned in school concealed the truth that the Union was dissolved. Hiding that truth makes Lincoln the second traitor to the American Republic.
I cannot find any evidence to support my belief that southern state governments were a part of this grand conspiracy. However their secession and attack on Fort Sumter was both convenient and timely. And when the southern delegates rejoined the corporate federal government they shared in the fruit of the piracy of American labor and industry.
5: Why
did Congress feel the need to renew Lincoln’s Order of Marshal Law, every year
since the Civil War?
The federal government has committed an ongoing treason against the American Republic from day one. The organic Constitution would have severely restricted Congress and the President. Under martial law those restrictions are suspended, which in turn grants the Corporate “alleged” President the power of Executive Privilege too create policy without Congressional oversight. Since Martial law can only be invoked during War or during Acts of Civil disobedience, the corporate federal government has obviously declared War upon the American Republic ever since 1781. Hence, their reason to renew Lincoln’s Martial law each year.
By 1933, the Roosevelt Administration passed the Emergency Banking Act. Concealed within this act is a modification of the Trading with the Enemy Act, wherein Congress has declared that the American people are the enemy of the federal government. Also concealed within this Act, Roosevelt dissolved the Virginia Colony Corporation.
The federal government has committed an ongoing treason against the American Republic from day one. The organic Constitution would have severely restricted Congress and the President. Under martial law those restrictions are suspended, which in turn grants the Corporate “alleged” President the power of Executive Privilege too create policy without Congressional oversight. Since Martial law can only be invoked during War or during Acts of Civil disobedience, the corporate federal government has obviously declared War upon the American Republic ever since 1781. Hence, their reason to renew Lincoln’s Martial law each year.
By 1933, the Roosevelt Administration passed the Emergency Banking Act. Concealed within this act is a modification of the Trading with the Enemy Act, wherein Congress has declared that the American people are the enemy of the federal government. Also concealed within this Act, Roosevelt dissolved the Virginia Colony Corporation.
6: How
could Congress pass the Organic Act of 1871, when the US Constitution
absolutely prohibited government corporations?
The Organic Act set the
stage for a new federal corporation and prevented the Lincoln Administration
from having to disclose to the American public that the federal government was
dissolved and never was constitutional, which would have exposed that the Civil
War was used as a distraction and Treasonous solution to their problem.
I believe that Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address was completely heartfelt and was the act of a repentant man who felt totally responsible for all the death and destruction that had occurred. I also believe that a guilt ridden Lincoln constantly placed himself in harms way, hoping that he would be dispatched with prejudice.
I believe that Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address was completely heartfelt and was the act of a repentant man who felt totally responsible for all the death and destruction that had occurred. I also believe that a guilt ridden Lincoln constantly placed himself in harms way, hoping that he would be dispatched with prejudice.
7: Why
did Congress feel the need to create a new Municipal Charter for the District
of Columbia?
Had Congress disclosed
that secession by the south had legally dissolved the federal government, the
American public probably would have demanded that a new Constitutional
government be created, with new elections held because of a lack of faith in
the previous delegates and that would have destroyed their federal careers;
positions of power and visions of grandeur. So the Organic Act was passed and a
new commercial corporation created having a Constitutional appearance and
reference (ie) United States Of America, under which was concealed the original
private foreign Virginia Colony Corporation. Under this new corporation, all of
them could profit from the commercial piracy of American labor and industry.
8: Why
did Congress copy and modify the organic Constitution to create a “mission
statement”?
Congress was better able
to maintain the “illusion” of a constitutional government for the American
Republic, by using and modifying the organic Constitution as a “mission
statement” without officially touching the organic Constitution. The federal
officials regarded this plan as plausible deniability and business as usual.
All they ever had to claim was that a mistake had been made by omitting Article
XIII. Congress’s new “mission statement” can also be easily modified to suit
their collective preference without convening a Constitutional Convention.
Hence: The adoption of the Civil Rights Act and Tax Laws, etc. were all a
corporate ruse. It was the corporate “mission statement” that was actually
being modified by all their new amendments and NOT the organic Constitution and
this is how it appears lately that Congress has unlawfully repealed several
Constitutional amendments without convening a Constitutional Convention.
Everything that has happened in government during the past 224 years has been
an “illusion” and the original organic Constitution remains in tact and valid.
Every four years The US Printing Office reprints the organic Constitution, the Articles of Confederation, the Declaration of Independence and the Northwest Territorial Treaty. These four documents are the laws of the land or the foundation of all American law and can be researched at the US Printing Office.
Every four years The US Printing Office reprints the organic Constitution, the Articles of Confederation, the Declaration of Independence and the Northwest Territorial Treaty. These four documents are the laws of the land or the foundation of all American law and can be researched at the US Printing Office.
9: Why was this “mission statement” published and taught by all government controlled public and parochial schools, as the one and only organic Constitution of America?
The purpose behind this decision and their procuring educational control, was to dumb down the American public and control what we are taught, know and believe using fraudulent information and various other constructive forms of propaganda through altered publications, the media, the press and movies.
The organic Constitution needed stricter controls but would have actually prevented the federal usurpation, propaganda, oppression, fraud, commercial slavery and theft that has occurred throughout the years. But Americans did not notice what was happening and placed far too much trust in their elected representatives.
In all fairness, we were a nation of immigrants and the bulk of our ancestors were illiterate. So it was actually quite easy for Congress to carry out this usurpation and conspiracy.
10: Up
to the year 1871, why is it that out of the sixteen US Presidents, who had
previously served, was Washington and Lincoln, the only US Presidents
memorialized by the Congress?
The corrupt Washington
and Lincoln’s administrations did the most to undermine the American Republic
and further the goals of the private foreign corporate partnership and their
commercial piracy of American labor and industry. That made Washington and
Lincoln heroes in the eyes of Congress. The nobility regard the citizenry as
slaves and we are conditioned to celebrate their beliefs, holidays and heroes.
How could this have happened, you ask? Certainly somebody should have caught on to this federal plot before now? Well they did, and all it took was a little government propaganda claiming these individuals were mentally ill, or drug dealers, or involved in a terrorist organization and plot to destroy this country. Once that it done the authorities use government agencies like the FBI to place these clear-seeing individuals into custody on false charges. Soon everyone stops paying attention to the message and evidence these patriots exposed.
Still don’t believe that this was all possible? Well, consider this: What is the first thing we do when a baby cries? We distract them with funny faces, baby talk, rocking or play peek-a-boo. When we discover the right distraction the baby stops crying. This is exactly how state and federal politicians “handle” us. The three best distractions they discovered are “fear, debt and war.” These traitors don’t do anything in a hurry because time is always on their side. Some of their plans have taken more than one hundred years to fulfill. Some will never be fulfilled. But even that has never deterred them.
How could this have happened, you ask? Certainly somebody should have caught on to this federal plot before now? Well they did, and all it took was a little government propaganda claiming these individuals were mentally ill, or drug dealers, or involved in a terrorist organization and plot to destroy this country. Once that it done the authorities use government agencies like the FBI to place these clear-seeing individuals into custody on false charges. Soon everyone stops paying attention to the message and evidence these patriots exposed.
Still don’t believe that this was all possible? Well, consider this: What is the first thing we do when a baby cries? We distract them with funny faces, baby talk, rocking or play peek-a-boo. When we discover the right distraction the baby stops crying. This is exactly how state and federal politicians “handle” us. The three best distractions they discovered are “fear, debt and war.” These traitors don’t do anything in a hurry because time is always on their side. Some of their plans have taken more than one hundred years to fulfill. Some will never be fulfilled. But even that has never deterred them.
The
“Slave Question” And “Lincoln’s Election”
In 1871 the “slave
question” and “Lincoln’s election” divided a nation. This division set the
stage for conspirators to create a new private foreign corporation designed to
convert the federal government into a business
pirate America’s labor and industry.
The plan was to divert the public’s attention via a distraction consisting of fear, debt and war.
convert the federal government into a business
pirate America’s labor and industry.
The plan was to divert the public’s attention via a distraction consisting of fear, debt and war.
What happened
. the South seceded
. the federal government imploded
. martial law was imposed and Lincoln suddenly enjoyed dictatorial power by and through “Executive Privilege.” [Sounds a lot like today, doesn’t it.]
. Fort Sumter was attacked
. War was declared. Patriotism and prejudice was force fed the American public.
. Fear, debt and war created hardship for the Republic while commerce flourished and filled the pockets of politicians and the European royal and elite owners of the Virginia Colony Corporation.
. During all this distraction the private foreign corporation called United States of America was created and filed. The organic Constitution was copied as a corporate “mission statement,” absent Article XIII. Both replace the Municipal Charter for the District of Columbia. All that remained was to destroy all copies and references to the organic 13th Amendment and then convince the American public that this fraudulent rewrite was the one and only Constitution of the United States of America.
Checkmate.
This devious example became a paradigm for all future historic events.
BACK TO BASICS AND SILVER FREEDOM
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TO BASICS AND SILVER FREEDOM
Many, many new subscribers asking... "What is happening and why?"
Many, many new subscribers asking... "What is happening and why?"
Excellent questions as
on the surface nothing in our world seems to make
sense. From the US printing money at ever increasing quantities every chance
they get to the ECB head-faking the confiscation of insured funds thus destroying
banking confidence to the violent price smash of silver while there is no physical
to be found. What in the world can explain all this insanity?!
sense. From the US printing money at ever increasing quantities every chance
they get to the ECB head-faking the confiscation of insured funds thus destroying
banking confidence to the violent price smash of silver while there is no physical
to be found. What in the world can explain all this insanity?!
There's only one
explanation that makes sense...THEY ARE DOING IT ALL ON
PURPOSE TO END THE GAME!
PURPOSE TO END THE GAME!
After you understand
this then it gets down to WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?
Will the Bad Guys who
have run our lives for so long institute their "One World
Government" game plan or will the Good Guys prevail and return us to a sound
form of governance complete with liberty, justice and HARD MONEY?!
Government" game plan or will the Good Guys prevail and return us to a sound
form of governance complete with liberty, justice and HARD MONEY?!
I know what the Good
Guys want and I'm doing everything to help people understand
...ultimately, "We The People" will decide our own fate!
...ultimately, "We The People" will decide our own fate!
The following articles
were released in early 2007 after the Federal Reserve Bank of
Boston posted some cryptic publications on their website that explain their game plan.
Once you understand these Road to Roota articles everything you see in our financial
world today makes perfect sense.
Boston posted some cryptic publications on their website that explain their game plan.
Once you understand these Road to Roota articles everything you see in our financial
world today makes perfect sense.
The Road to Roota or the
Implementation of a New Gold Standard
Greenspan's Golden
Secret
Don't forget, these
articles were written long before the crash of 2008 and the long list of
financial implosions since.
financial implosions since.
Yes, the world we live
in is 100% turned upside down...and it will only get worse until it's
all OVER. Stay on the sidelines with metal out of their system.
all OVER. Stay on the sidelines with metal out of their system.
May the Road you choose
be the Right Road.
Bix Weir
Update by Sheldan Nidle for the Spiritual Hierarchy and the Galactic Federation 04/16/2013
Rumor Mill News Agents Forum
Update by Sheldan Nidle for the
Spiritual Hierarchy and the Galactic Federation 04/16/2013
  Update by Sheldan Nidle for the Spiritual Hierarchy and the Galactic Federation 04/16/2013 13 Cib, 4 Kank'in, 9 Eb Selamat Jarin! We return! Let us begin today by reviewing what has transpired so far. As you know, our Earth allies have set up the basis for a new monetary and financial system and the Agarthans have used their diplomatic skills to establish the nucleus of the new governance that is to be run by a coalition under the auspices of your Ascended Masters. The Ascended Masters under the guidance of Quan Yin in the East and Count Saint Germaine in the West have ensured that a new system of banking and monetary policy is emerging. These changes are intrinsic to the sacred decrees which are preparing this world for our mass landing. These divine directives are guiding us as we establish a way to set up the new reality for surface humanity. Freedom is a necessary condition for all that is planned and your realm is on an accelerated path to creating those prerequisites for your return to full consciousness. Our many liaison teams are monitoring everything and meeting every day with those who are to forge your new governance. As of now, these many programs have put all the necessary elements in place. Our personnel are overseeing the schedule of projects which are to produce the results we have long discussed with you. Meanwhile, our Galactic Federation medical teams are continuing to collect the data needed to update your individual Light chambers. When called upon these Light chambers will be the means for returning you to full consciousness. At present, all of you possess certain key blocks, both emotional and physiological, that prevent you from returning naturally and under your own steam to full consciousness, and it is for this reason that throughout the millennia various methods have been attempted to bring about this wonderful state of Being. However, the results of these complex technologies were haphazard at best, which is why we have been permitted to create a simpler means of achieving this goal. At the right time, each of you can access your individual Light chamber waiting for you in Agartha, and during three days of slumber be returned to your original state of full consciousness as physical Angels. Once you have secured your glorious new state of consciousness you will be eligible to rejoin the Galactic Federation by re-creating your former star-nation. In this the Agarthans will be your main guides together with your various Ascended Masters. Your first challenge after returning to full consciousness will be to set up your own galactic society, and part of this includes relocating those whose life contracts provide for this to the reconstituted worlds of Mars and Venus, and also the reconstructed planet of Pax (aka Maldek), which now lies in fragments between Mars and Jupiter. Your new star-nation is to become a herald of change for the former Anchara Alliance as these many new star-nations need a template for expanding their consciousness to its fullest levels. In accordance with this, you will be assisting many Galactic Federation members who are fully conscious versions of the multitudes of Dinosaurians, Reptilians, and Amphibians who now deeply desire to develop full-consciousness Light bodies. Heaven has mandated that this become your first mission as you begin to spread Light throughout the galaxy. These first tasks which you will be carrying out as physical Angels are fundamentally vital as they will make the galactic peace permanent. It is a sacred task which will prepare you to be a most welcome addition at Federation conferences. We fully expect your new star-nation to provide the core of many Space & Exploration fleets which are to explore the far reaches of this sector of physicality. In this capacity you will carry out many of the mission objectives that are part of first contact. In effect, you will be doing what we are now doing to accelerate your transition into the wonders of full consciousness. In fact, we see you shortly becoming masters of a first-contact mission, and all that that implies. In this way, what we are accomplishing here with you will be reciprocated by you many times over. The primitive 3D realm you now occupy is shortly to be transformed into one that allows you to return to the stars, and this fulfillment of your divine destiny will bless you in ways that are well beyond your present abilities to envision! Blessings, dear Ones! We are your Ascended Masters! Many wonderful events are ready to happen. Gaia is prepared to step up the energies that she daily disburses among all her living creatures and ecosystems. These additional energies, which further accelerate your consciousness shift, could be seen as divine proof that you are being blessed by Heaven! Your sacred world has long been hidden within an especially manipulated shadow realm controlled by the dark cabal. Now, however, these new energies are ready to push you out of this dark dwelling space and into the Light. We are very pleased and Heaven is continuing to use her blessings to move you ever closer to the Light and toward your new more-conscious reality. Know that these shifts are inevitable! A series of events is upon you which will move you to the brink of a new reality. These events are celestial in nature and are harbingers of truly amazing circumstances! They are to bring you prosperity and freedom! The Agarthans are assisting us to prepare a way for us to be introduced to you. These introductory announcements will be made by the secret sacred societies and many vital Truths will also be elucidated at that time. The dark has long packed your minds and your societies with half-truths as well as outright lies, and these need to be corrected. You will shortly be in the company of those who have long known about your true origins and your real history. The divine plan requires that you be apprised of these facts and that you learn how you became reduced over time, and no longer able to easily converse with Heaven. This broken connection of yours requires our immediate attention. You are in a transitional stage and our purpose now is to use our abilities to shift you easily into a new reality. Your reality is scheduled to be swiftly upgraded by the introduction of a vast range of Truths which you are required to assimilate. The time has come to do so! Each day Heaven sends us great blessings. These 'blessings' are intended to make us more aware of where we are going and how quickly the divine plan intends to get us there. We are jubilant and wish to say that all of you have the innate ability to shift swiftly to higher states of consciousness. We are just waiting for Heaven's 'go' signal. The final series of events is ready to happen and bring us into a new Light. This Light will unleash an unending prosperity and bring a raft of new responsibilities for us all. Societies do not tend to change rapidly unless a new set of beliefs is taken up and readily espoused by a group of dedicated and passionate Beings. Our mission with you is to guide you, at the right divine moment, to the point where this passion, combined with sacred Truth, forges your new world. We would remind you, peace and Truth lie within. Be Love. Be Wise. Be Aware. Today we reviewed the progress being made on your world. We ask you to continue to be ready to accept the new manifestations as they come slowly, yet ever more swiftly, into being. Amazing things are ready to happen. Despite its power, the dark is to lose. It will lose because of your great collective Love! Know, dear Ones, that the countless Supply and never-ending Prosperity of Heaven are indeed Yours! So Be it! Selamat Gajun! Selamat Ja! (Sirian for Be One! and Be in Joy! Planetary Activation Organization http://www.paoweb.com/index.html |
ALL TERROR ATTACKS ARE PSYOPS
All terror attacks, no matter who launches them, have a
psychology. They have a purpose. Inducing fear, of course.
Causing the public to give in to a new set of "security
regulations," which tighten the screws on freedom, of course.
Painting some designated group as heinous, of course.
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Petro America criminal stock scam trial starts this week
BUSINESS
Petro America criminal stock scam trial starts this week
April 14
BY MARK DAVIS
The Kansas City Star
The long-awaited criminal trial surrounding Kansas City-based Petro America Corp. begins this week with five defendants facing charges they ran a stock scam across the continent and beyond.
Promises of wealth — often paired with a religious appeal — coaxed more than $7 million out of thousands. In addition to many Kansas City area investors, buyers included Peter Lee in Wallasey, England, and a friends-and-family group in the Cambodian community of Long Beach, Calif.
Many had never bought stock before, were of modest means or heard the investment pitch at a church event. For $100, they got 100,000 shares whose value, they were told, would soar as trading began in the stock market.
Backers held weekly telephone conference calls — which federal prosecutors now say they were recording. The tapes, they say, reveal claims that Petro America was “larger than Coca-Cola,” would “do better than Microsoft” and owned gold mines, oil interests and other ventures worth $284 billion.
“We were looking forward to it, like a nest egg,” said Sanford Potiker, a 73-year-old Ohio retiree who bought shares after listening to conference calls. “I really believed the thing would get on the stock market.”
Prosecutors will seek to convince a jury that Petro America never produced “a dime of revenue,” that those mines were “dirt piles” and that millions intended for the company instead bought personal vehicles, furs, jewelry and an $8,400 set of Louis Vuittan luggage, among other things.
Nine individuals from six states, including a few ministers, already have pleaded guilty to various crimes. Some are expected to testify in the trial scheduled to begin Wednesday in U.S District Court in Kansas City.
The trial might last four weeks. That’s longer than usual — thanks to the federal court’s Friday furloughs brought about by spending cuts known as sequestration.
Petro America founder and chief executive Isreal Owen Hawkins Jr. of Kansas City, Kan., started Petro America in April 2007.
Previously, the 57-year-old longtime area resident had dabbled in a few business ventures and unsuccessfully sought election to the Board of Public Utilities and a seat on the Kansas City, Kan., city council.
He was the first to face criminal charges, named in an October 2010 federal complaint.
A grand jury expanded the case a month later to include Teresa Brown, 55 of Texas, who federal authorities say bought the pricey luggage, and Johnny Heurung, 59 of Minnesota, who investors say used only his first name on weekly conference calls.
In June 2011, the list of defendants grew to include Martin Roper, 47 of Kansas City, Kan., who along with Hawkins was a target of early legal action to halt the stock sales; and William Miller, 42 of Independence, who prosecutors say was among several who sold shares they’d been given for free.
All five face counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and securities fraud. Individuals also face various other counts of wire and securities fraud and money laundering.
All five defendants have pleaded not guilty to all charges.
Each will rebut the government charges separately, represented by different attorneys. At least some intend to argue they acted in good faith and had no intent to defraud investors.
Teresa Brown “was misled and misinformed by others with respect to Petro America and is innocent of the pending federal fraud charges,” Willie J. Epps Jr., her attorney with Dowd Bennett LLP, said in an email.
Hawkins first disclosed plans to start selling Petro America stock in October 2008, notifying the federal Securities and Exchange Commission that Petro’s shares were exempt from its oversight.
Petro investors in Texas and Oregon, however, already were complaining to Missouri securities regulators.
Within a month of Hawkins’ notice to the SEC, Missouri’s securities division publicly labeled Petro America’s stock sales an illegal scheme and ordered it halted in Missouri.
The state order figures prominently in the criminal case. Prosecutors say all five defendants continued to sell shares to investors and failed to disclose the Missouri order against Petro America, Hawkins and Roper.
An article in The Kansas City Star stirred concerns among many investors, which the newspaper raised with Hawkins in interviews before the federal charges.
“We are real,” he said, responding to their doubts. “We want to be a Kansas City success story.”
Hawkins billed Petro America as “the peoples’ company” and said he hoped to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for the wealth it would bring to ordinary folks.
He found support from a local group called the Ministers Alliance. Faithful investors and other supporters attended Hawkins’ early court hearings in the criminal case.
They set up a website and a Facebook page to organize a fundraiser and a protest at Kansas City’s federal courthouse.
Prosecutors say they will show that investors’ money transformed Hawkins from a man who touched friends for help to pay his phone bill into a customer of Halls on the Country Club Plaza, where he bought custom-ordered Armani suits and always paid cash.
Prosecutors say bank officials will testify Hawkins repeatedly made multiple large cash withdrawals of less than $10,000. It’s an illegal practice called “smurfing” or “structuring” that skirts a rule that requires banks to report large cash transactions to regulators.
Prosecutors also have listed six financial and accounting experts as witnesses ready to testify variously that Petro America’s financial records were “a bunch of junk,” involved values that could “in no way” be accurate or led them to walk away from the job of reconstructing the company’s books.
Aggrieved investors are ready to testify as well. According to prosecutors, they include:
• A 79-year-old California man who still hasn’t told his wife about investing in Petro for fear it would worsen her already serious health problems.
• A Louisiana lawyer who grilled Hawkins in Petro’s rented Kansas City office on behalf of a Petro investor and then had to chip in $20 for gas money when Hawkins and a secretary gave him a ride back to the airport.
• A legally blind Texas investor whom Hawkins took to fancy Kansas City restaurants, often sticking him with the bill, and who was hit up for bail money when Hawkins was arrested.
Many investors have been looking to the trial as some sort of test whether Petro America is real.
Paul Romano still has his stock certificate but little confidence.
“I took it as a gamble. There was nothing in writing that said you would get anything,” the Illinois resident said. “It’s probably worth nothing.”
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[kokla] CarrolBeams Is this our week?
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duffy2] We can only be REALLY excited when we are walking out of the bank with a receipt for a HUGE AMOUNT OF MONEY
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[kokla] CarrolBeams can u say whether or not u think this is our week?
[CarrolBeams] kokla week...yep...day...goood chance
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CarrolBeams] champagne soon
[CarrolBeams] glad to see everyone so excited..we have good reason to be..I know I have my Party shoes ready
[kokla] CarrolBeams Is this our week?
[dkg] CarrolBeams I have never been so excited
[CarrolBeams] I was told to be quiet re: ce..soooooo
duffy2] We can only be REALLY excited when we are walking out of the bank with a receipt for a HUGE AMOUNT OF MONEY
[dkg] CarrolBeams can you talk in a way that you could let enough out to us without getting into trouble like a story form of some creative way LOL
[CarrolBeams] dkg Well..I am on board with Okie
[kokla] CarrolBeams can u say whether or not u think this is our week?
[CarrolBeams] kokla week...yep...day...goood chance
[dkg] CarrolBeams that is very good woohoo
CarrolBeams] champagne soon
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