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Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 08:05:20 -0800
To: Nick Ashton <nickaa@citycom.com>
From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: IP: Yet another IRS story
Cc: ignition-point@majordomo.pobox.com
Was this guy then planning to write
"checks" against his commercial liens,
on the advice of LeRoy Schweitzer
and/or M. Elizabeth Broderick,
by any chance?
Just asking, okay?
/s/ Paul Mitchell
http://supremelaw.com
At 08:09 AM 11/26/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Daily, we hear these stories and they get more bizarre!
>
>
> IRS gets last word in fight
> with tax protester McEwan
>
> By Jim Leusner
> of The Sentinel Staff
>
> Published in The Orlando Sentinel, November 26, 1997
>
> Three years ago, former Casselberry businessman
> Grant McEwan organized a rally to recruit friends
> to join a militia, renounce their citizenship and stop
> paying taxes to the IRS -- which he referred to as
> the International Racketeering Service.
>
> On Tuesday in Orlando, a shamed and
> soft-spoken McEwan entered guilty pleas to six
> charges involving the filing of bogus $1.1 million
> liens against the Internal Revenue Service, failure
> to file income-tax returns from 1991-93,
> threatening IRS employees and bond-jumping.
>
> Questioned by U.S. Magistrate David Baker
> about why he committed each offense, McEwan
> gave two reasons: protesting the tax system and
> stupidity.
>
> ``In hindsight, that would really be hard to
> explain,'' McEwan said. ``Just to make a
> statement, I guess.
>
> ``The Constitution talks about servitude ... that
> was my way of making a statement.''
>
> McEwan, 60, said he did not believe he threatened
> an IRS revenue agent but recalled offering to
> ``unscrew his head and put some brains in it.'' He
> did not remember if he threatened to file a lien
> against the agent.
>
> ``It was stupid,'' McEwan said. ``He felt
> threatened. And if I did that, I apologize.''
>
> A former owner of the now-defunct Loss
> Recovery Services collection agency, McEwan
> was charged in November 1994 with filing liens
> against the IRS, seeking repayment of employee
> taxes that his company collected. He also
> threatened to seize the IRS' Longwood office and
> auction off its contents.
>
> McEwan, an ex-Marine with a booming voice, had
> claimed he was a sovereign citizen immune from
> government authority and protested what he
> believed was a conspiracy to form a one-world
> government. IRS officials labeled him a tax
> protester.
>
> Complaining he was being persecuted and that he
> could not receive a fair trial, McEwan fled the state
> a few weeks before his February 1996 trial. He
> left a three-page handwritten note in the cabin of a
> docked cruise ship in Key West that he and his
> wife were sailing on.
>
> His disappearance came three weeks after three
> acquaintances who also claimed to be sovereign
> citizens were convicted in Orlando federal court of
> filing a bogus $22.8 million lien against state and
> local officials.
>
> McEwan was rumored to have escaped to Costa
> Rica, but eventually was arrested by FBI agents
> while living under an alias and plowing a field in
> Pennsylvania. Because he fled, McEwan's bail was
> forfeited and a business partner was forced to pay
> $100,000.
>
> At Tuesday's hearing, Assistant U.S. Attorney
> Randy Gold announced that prosecutors would
> drop 17 other tax and weapons charges in
> exchange for the plea. Under federal sentencing
> guidelines, McEwan is facing up to five years in
> prison on the felony and misdemeanor charges.
>
> McEwan's lawyer, Donald Lykkebak, said his
> client realized he made a mistake while on the lam
> for 18 months.
>
> ``While he was gone and failed to appear, he
> made the realization he made some serious
> mistakes in judgment,'' Lykkebak said. ``And he
> would like to get this behind him as soon as
> possible.''
>
> U.S. District Judge Patricia Fawsett will sentence
> McEwan early next year. He is being held without
> bail at the Seminole County Jail.
>
> A longtime Seminole County gadfly, McEwan
> helped publicize the controversial Yankee Lake
> land purchase in the mid-1980s. In 1991, he
> assisted in publishing The Immaculate Deception, a
> little-known book which accuses ex-President
> George Bush and his family of everything from
> arming the Nazis in World War II to modern-day
> drug smuggling.
>
>
>Respectfully,
>Nick Ashton
>The American Agenda
>Web Site. http://www.americanagenda.com
>
>
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