Time: Mon Nov 11 23:18:43 1996 To: richard@caprica.com From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: Russell Landers Cc: Bcc: >Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 23:57:15 -0600 (CST) >From: "G. Carroll" <gcarroll@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu> >To: pmitch@primenet.com >Subject: TRIAL OF THE "IOWA 11" STARTS NOV. 11 (fwd) > > > >---------- Forwarded message ---------- >Date: Sun, 3 Nov 1996 00:26:02 -0600 (CST) >From: G. Carroll <gcarroll@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu> >To: Nancy Lord <defense@macon.mindspring.com> >Cc: MACON.COURT.LIST@mindspring.com >Subject: TRIAL OF THE "IOWA 11" STARTS NOV. 11 > > >Eleven former members of the "We the People" group go on trial starting >Nov. 11, 1996, in the Federal Building on 3rd St., Cedar Rapids, Iowa. > >The "Iowa 11" include Scott E. Hildebrand, Sandra K. Hildebrand, Quentin >E. Hildebrand, Joseph A. Mentlick, Donald W. Borgmann, David I. >Gardemann, Kenneth L. Kraklio, Allen K. Zurcher, Mervin D. Hague, Larry >A. Webb and Joan M. Webb. > >The "Iowa 11" are each charged with one count of conspiracy to commit >mail fraud, two counts of mail fraud, 43 counts of conspiracy to launder >money, and 44 counts of criminal forfeiture. > >The charges stem from the group's filing of "claims" and the charging of >$300 "claims fees" relating to a 1991 executive order by President Bush >granting allegedly granting people the right to file claims against the >federal government. The federal indictment against the "Iowa 11" stated that >Bush's order and an alleged class-action lawsuit "supposedly authorized >millions of dollars to be paid any person who filled out one of the >defendants' claim forms and paid the defendants a $300 fee." However, the >indictment states that none of these "claims" have any value whatsoever >and that the 6,832 people who filed such "claims" were simply ripped off >of their $300 fees. > >The "We the People" organization sprung from the activities of a man >named Roy Schwasinger, who is now serving a prison term in Colorado on >related charges. Schwasinger claims that, among other things, he is a >former Bush administration insider who has pushed this "farm claims >program" because he feels he can prove the United States banking and >judicial systems are monstrous frauds, and that they owe victimized >Americans hefty settlements dating back to 1933 when the U.S. "went off >the gold standard" and started running the economy with "fiat currency" >based on debt instead of the gold standard. > >Some people associated with "We the People," including a former Iowa man >named Russell Landers, are also connected with the so-called Montana >Justus Freemen who held off federal agents for some 81 days before >surrendering last June. Landers is currently one of the Freemen in >custody in Montana, but he is listed in the indictment as having some >contact with "We the People" and the Iowa 11. > >Concerned Americans are invited to this trial, which looms as one of the >more critical trials in many years with reference to the so-called >"common law courts" and "militia" movements. > >People interested in further information are asked to phone (319) >386-0988 (fax number 319-391-8416). > >This case has been featured on ABC World News Tonight, but the defendants >involved have been tarred with "antigovernment" labels and "scam artists" >without any of the charges yet presented in court with appropriate evidence. > >The trial is expected to last between one and two months. > > >
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