Brent Russ E.S.T.E.S. 3016 W 17th Ave Spokane, WA 99224

1/25/14

Washington State Attorney General Attn: Bob Ferguson PO Box 40100 Olympia, WA 98504-0100 USPS #9405510200829059603316

CC: Governor Jay Inslee USPS #9405510200829059603705 Congresswoman Cathy McMorris-Rodgers USPS #9405510200793988308638 Representative Matt Shea USPS #9405510200828059662279 Various Media Outlets

RE: Continuance of Robo-Signing Practices, Foreclosure Fraud, COINTELPRO Activities.

Dear Mr. Ferguson,

My name is Brent Russ and I am Director of the non-profit Washington State corporation Energy Saving Technologies Educational Service (E.S.T.E.S.). While the mainstay of my career and education has been in the power transmission industry, I have been involved during the last year helping homeowners fight fraudulent foreclosures being conducted by Wells Fargo, Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Quality Loan Service (McCarthy-Holthus), and Bishop, White, Marshall, and Wiebel P.S. (BWMW)

The following report will detail three cases of blatant foreclosure fraud including:

• Wells Fargo and JP Morgan Chase fraudulently pretending to be the note-holders and the beneficiaries in the Deeds of Trust.

• Trustees Quality Loan Service (McCarthy-Holthus) and Bishop, White, Marshall, and Weibel P.S. knowingly conducting fraudulent trustee sales.

• Evidence that Wells Fargo is not only continuing the practice of robo-signing after your settlement with them, but documented evidence I have obtained confirming that the beneficiary declarations used to foreclose on homeowners are perjurious statements.

• How when I obtained evidence proving that the banks are forging documentation to foreclose, the FBI engaged in COINTELPRO practices against me in retaliation.

Background:

I first became involved fighting foreclosure fraud when attempting to renegotiate my personal home mortgage with Bank of America (BOA) in 2009. When I called BOA and informed them that I had just accepted a 33% pay reduction to retain my employment and could no longer afford my house payment, I was told they could not help me unless I was 90 days delinquent. I told them that I was trying to avoid becoming delinquent and that is why I was asking for assistance, but was told that there was nothing they could do until I was 90 days behind in my mortgage payments. This baffled me and I asked,

“So, you won't help me unless I stop paying you?” to which the customer service representative replied,

“That's the way it works.”

What I didn't realize at the time was BOA, who originated my home loan in 2007, was not actually the note-holder any longer. The reason they couldn't modify the terms of my mortgage was the fact that they were just a payment processor at that point. I discovered, through hours of extensive research, that my mortgage had been sold into the MASTR Asset-Backed Securities Trust 2007-HE2.

Once securitized and Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS) were issued, per SEC regulations, the terms of my original promissory note could not be altered unless there was a default on the my part. Only at that point could the bank buy the note back out of the trust and renegotiate the terms.

It was during this research and investigation of my personal mortgage when I discovered some very interesting facts about the securitization process, the issuance of Mortgage Backed Securities and Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDO), the structure of Real Estate Mortgage Conduits (REMIC), Special Purpose Entities (SPE/SPV), and how the banks were fraudulently foreclosing on people with no proper lawful standing to do so. Once I understood the con, I began to do everything in my power to help stop it.

Case 1: Stacy Sjolund2010 Harksell RdFerndale, WA 98248 APN# 4002322090340000

In March of 2013, my friend's mother detailed to me a similar experience I shared regarding the true owner of her mortgage. As it turned out, she had first obtained a mortgage with Novastar who went out of business during the closing period.

After searching for nearly 10 months in an attempt to locate who the proper note-holder was, she was eventually contacted by Wells Fargo, N.A. who informed her that she owed them all of the back-pay immediately or they would initiate foreclosure.

Stacy then entered mediation in an attempt to receive a HARP loan modification with Joseph Jordan from the Northwest Justice Project representing her, Joseph W. McIntosh from McCarthy-Holthus representing the Trustee Quality Loan Service, and lawyers representing the party claiming to be the beneficiary, Wells Fargo, N.A.

After processing the paperwork for the HARP modification, Wells Fargo attorneys said in mediation that Stacy qualified for the modification, but Wells Fargo had decided to instead proceed with a foreclosure. When I heard their decision, I recognized the process of “dual-tracking” where the bank simultaneously sets up a foreclosure while negotiating a loan modification. From my personal research, I realized that Wells Fargo was most likely not the actual holder of the promissory note and Stacy's note was most likely securitized in a REMIC or SPE.

Stacy also received a letter from Wells Fargo when her modification was denied that stated, “Your pending loan modification required approval from the investor that ultimately owns your mortgage and the investor has declined the request to modify your mortgage."

Upon realizing that Wells Fargo was acting as an imposter claiming to be the beneficiary in the deed of trust, Stacy drafted this email (article A) on 8/2/12. She presented this letter at a mediation meeting and when the attorneys for Wells Fargo were confronted with evidence that Wells Fargo was not the actual note-holder and beneficiary, they admitted that indeed a private investor held the note but that Wells Fargo represented that investor and thus had standing as beneficiary. When Stacy demanded to see the original wet-ink (blue ink) signature promissory note and deed of trust to confirm their lawful standing per Washington State Supreme Court ruling Bain V. MERS, Wells Fargo's attorneys flatly refused.

When Joseph McIntosh, attorney for the party claiming to be the Trustee (Quality Loan Service) discovered that Wells Fargo was not the actual note-holder, he realized that the successor trustee appointment they filed naming Quality Loan Service as trustee was therefore fraudulent. In light of this information, he remained unfazed and was committed to conducting a trustee sale on Stacy's property despite the facts.

In a defensive move, I offered Stacy an alternative as I wanted to push this matter into the courts before a judge. I had Stacy file a successor trustee appointment at the Whatcom County Recorder's Office (Document #2130304018) on 3/28/13 naming my non-profit corporation E.S.T.E.S. as the new lawful trustee. Is this legal? Yes, there is no law preventing the grantor in the deed of trust from appointing a trustee. Does the grantor retain this power? Well, if the signature of the grantor at the inception of the deed of trust contains the power to appoint both the beneficiary and trustee in the deed of trust, then if no stipulations rescind that power to appoint, the grantor must logically retain that power through the life of the deed. At any rate, we could use this to push the information in front of a judge and through the courts, we would finally get some judicial supervision on this foreclosure.

With E.S.T.E.S. acting as the new and lawful trustee, as the director I filed a full reconveyance with the Whatcom County Recorder's Office (Document #2130400328) on 4/2/13 which dissolved the deed of trust (Document #2071001371) and gave Stacy full and equitable title to her property. She informed the fraudulent trustee, Quality Loan Service, in this email (article B) to Joseph McIntosh of McCarthy- Holthus as to their replacement on 3/28/13.

On 4/5/13, Quality Loan Service published a notice of trustee sale (article C) which stated:

“QUALITY LOAN SERVICES, as Trustee, to secure an obligation in favor of MORTGAGE

ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMINEE FOR NOVASTAR MORTGAGE, INC. A CORPORATION, as Beneficiary, the beneficial interest in which was assigned by MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMINEE FOR NOVASTAR MORTGAGE, INC. A CORPORATION (or by its successors-in-interest and/or assigns, if any), to Wells Fargo Bank, NA.”

At this point, Quality Loan Service knowing full well they were not appointed trustee by the actual note-holder, knowing that Wells Fargo was not the real beneficiary in the deed, and knowing that the grantor in the trust appointed a new trustee, proceeded to conduct a trustee sale of the property anyway on April 12th, 2013 at 10:00am on the Whatcom County Courthouse steps. At the auction, there were no bidders on Stacy's property so Quality Loan Service made the sole winning bid themselves in direct violation of RCW 61.24.070 which states:

“(1) The trustee may not bid at the trustee's sale. Any other person, including the beneficiary, may bid at the trustee's sale.”

On 4/18/13, Stacy received a notice from Cheryl Ferrier of John L. Scott Realty stating that she was putting Stacy's house up for sale on behalf of Wells Fargo, N.A. doing business as Premier Asset Services. I contacted Cheryl and informed her of the fraudulent nature of the trustee sale and that we intended to contest any eviction action.

On 4/19/13, I sent an email to the Sheriff's Detectives of Whatcom County (article D) detailing the unlawful trustee sale and attempted theft of Stacy's property by Wells Fargo and Quality Loan Service. I received a reply from Detective Alan Smith on April 26th, 2013 (article E) asking for further information. I replied with that information the same day. That email was the last I would hear from Detective Smith.

I sent subsequent emails following up with Detective Smith on 5/13/13, 6/13/13, 6/26/13, 7/19/13, and 8/8/13 with copies of the communication between all parties but never received a reply. I left multiple phone messages but never heard back. I was never even assigned a case number. I was perplexed. How could a detective pass up a case that could make his entire career? The only impetus greater than fame was money, but what did money have to do with this? Upon researching it further, I found this (article F) on page 46 of the Whatcom County's Comprehensive Financial Report (CAFR) for 2012. Indeed, Whatcom County had tens of millions of dollars squirreled away with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two largest issuers of Real Estate Mortgage Conduits used for issuing Mortgage Backed Securities. Whatcom County was taking property taxes from people and then investing in their mortgages to collect on the interest. If it were discovered that the properties did not lawfully collateralize these investments, the fallout could be immense. I also discovered while researching various CAFRs that massive stock was being held in these big banks by not only city, county, and state governments, but also in the retirement investments for government employees. In fact, the Department of Retirement Services CAFR showed that Wells Fargo was in the top 10 of their largest public equity holdings. If Wells Fargo took a hit, the government took it as well. Too big to fail indeed. (Reference www.cafr1.com for more detailed information.)

On 6/6/13, Stacy received a reply from Wells Fargo (article G) claiming that their foreclosure action was valid.

On 6/26/13, I sent a letter (article H) to Wells Fargo goading them into taking this matter into the courts by filing a wrongful reconveyance suit against me.

On 8/8/13, Stacy was served with an unlawful detainer suit by RCO Legal Services (article I). They had not filed it with the court, but demanded a reply by 8/20/13. On 8/20/13, I personally delivered our response (article J).

At this point, RCO did not proceed to file the unlawful detainer suit and Stacy had her house free and clear. We had stepped up and stopped Wells Fargo and Quality Loan Service from stealing her house. I threw together a presentation available at [https://t.co/BvHpBebLGg] that was simplified to help the layperson understand all of the terms, the process, and what they could do to fight back. I found that in most cases, the most vulnerable people were the ones who didn't understand all of this stuff. The banks were preying on the ignorant in classic psychopathic fashion and the government, in full cooperation because they profited as well, were more than happy to facilitate it. Absolutely disgusting.

CASE 2: Anthony & Heather Chodorowski3027 W Grandview RdSpokane, WA 99224 APN# 25261.1402

I was walking my neighborhood, as I always do nearly every day, and ran into my neighbor Anthony. We were chatting and the conversation turned to them getting ready to move out and he went into the back story of his negotiations with Wells Fargo and Quality Loan Service regarding their home loan modification. He iterated the same exact pattern of abuse that Stacy went through, the process of dual- tracking, all the games with the paperwork, and I filled him in on what Stacy went through.

I told Anthony that if he wanted to fight back, I would do everything in my power to help him. He agreed and I started by going through my presentation to help Anthony and his wife Heather to understand the intricacies of everything.

We began the fight by sending a challenge letter to Wells Fargo (article K) on 6/10/13 demanding that they prove they are indeed the note-holder and thus the beneficiary in the deed of trust by demonstrating that they actually held the original documents.

On 7/3/13, Anthony received this letter from Wells Fargo (article L) stating that a subpoena would be required for them to offer proof of proper lawful standing.

In response, Anthony mailed off this letter (article M) on 7/17/13 telling Wells Fargo that THEY were in default and Anthony would move to secure the property from a fraudulent trustee sale.

On 7/8/13, Anthony filed a successor trustee appointment at the Spokane County Recorders office (Document #6226101) naming E.S.T.E.S. the lawful trustee in his deed of trust (Document #5921078) and on 7/10/13, I filed a full reconveyance (Document #6227155) dissolving that trust and conveying full equitable interest of the property back to Anthony and Heather.

On 7/10/13, I sent a follow up letter to Wells Fargo goading them to take this into the courts by filing a suit against me for a wrongful reconveyance, the same letter I sent on behalf of Stacy.

On 7/10/13, I sent a letter to Quality Loan Service asking them to halt the trustee sale because they had no lawful standing to conduct it.

On 7/12/13, Quality Loan Service conducted a Trustee sale on the Spokane County Courthouse steps. Heather and I were in attendance and attempted to stop it, but the auctioneer refused to comply.

On 7/17/13, I filed a detailed report with Spokane Police Department and received the case number 13- 0236420. No one ever contacted me back.

On 7/16/13, Quality Loan Service sent a reply letter and included the “proof” they claimed was adequate to conduct a trustee sale on Anthony and Heather's property. This proof was a beneficiary declaration (article N) made by a Keoviseth Seung, the “Vice President of Loan Documentation” for “Wells Fargo, N.A.” stating that they had reviewed all the necessary documentation and swore under the penalty of perjury that they were the holder of the promissory note.

In the HUD Inspector Generals report dated 3/13/12 reviewing the claims of robo-signing by Wells Fargo, the most peculiar aspect of this report was the fact that no interviews were ever conducted with the people who were signing these beneficiary declarations. All of their statements were prepared by Wells Fargo attorneys and the Inspector General claimed that this hampered his ability to conduct a thorough investigation.

I Googled the name “Keoviseth Seung” and was surprised to find absolutely nothing about this person on the entire internet. It was as if this person didn't even exist. I cross referenced this name with a list of known robo-signers and came up with absolutely nothing.

Thinking that Wells Fargo was possibly utilizing fake identities when creating beneficiary declarations, I began to probe their human resources department to see if I could, at the very least, verify the employment of this person.

I called Wells Fargo HR on 7/25/13 and was told that I would have to sign up with The Work Number who, upon approval, could verify the status of employment for Keoviseth Seung. I called that agency and was denied access to any records.

Not to be shut out, I put on my thinking cap and came up with a better angle. Googling the name “Keoviseth”, I found that it was a Laotian male name. So, I sent an email to Wells Fargo HR (article O) on 7/25/13 stating that I was a private investigator hired by a man to find his long lost brother, Keoviseth Seung. I received the following boilerplate statement (article P) on 7/30/13 stating that Wells Fargo does not release any information about its employees.

Not to be outdone and realizing that most HR employees are female and more susceptible to psychological manipulation, I came up with a much more detailed and emotionalized story that would hopefully compel someone to put me in touch with this person. I emailed this story multiple times to Wells Fargo HR, each time receiving the standard boilerplate response from separate representatives.

Eventually frustrated, I tried an alternate route. On 8/6/13, I went to the Wells Fargo branch on 2910 E

30th Avenue with a hard copy of the story (article Q) and posed as an investigator with ESTES. I handed a teller the copy and told her I understood that Wells Fargo doesn't give out employee information, but if she could forward the letter to Keoviseth and have him contact me at his discretion, both I and his brother would most certainly appreciate it.

Weeks went by and then on Friday, August 23rd 2013, I was heading out to Starbucks for an iced coffee and as I went to quickly check the mail, the mailman handed me an envelope from Wells Fargo (article R). I tossed it in with a stack of paperwork from Quality Loan Service that I was going to review and headed out.

When I got to the Starbucks at 10510 W. SR2 Ste 8 in Airway Heights, WA around 4:30pm; I sat down with my iced coffee and opened the envelope. Inside was a letter (article S) stating that Wells Fargo, N.A. did not employ a Keoviseth Seung, but they knew a female with that name who worked for their subsidiary, America's Servicing Company. I literally bumbled my way out the door in an attempt to get home and share it with Anthony and Heather. Indeed, Wells Fargo had just confirmed that the person signing this beneficiary declaration as the “Vice President of Loan Documentation” for Wells Fargo, N.A. was not actually the Vice President of Loan Documentation for Wells Fargo, N.A. We finally had grounds to get that subpoena Wells Fargo was asking for! When that subpoena hit and Wells Fargo wouldn't be able to produce those documents, we would finally have the evidence required for a thorough criminal investigation!

When I got back and Google searched “America's Service Company”, I got this hit on Wells Fargo's website (article T). They were set up to service loans that are owned by external parties who don't want their customers to think they are dealing with Wells Fargo. The beneficiary declaration signed by Keoviseth Seung was also in Fort Mill, SC, the same location as America's Servicing Company.

Finally I had been able to obtain evidence that Wells Fargo was making perjurious statements on their beneficiary declarations to fraudulently foreclose. It also confirmed that robo-signing was continuing. Not only that, but this letter served as prima facie evidence that ALL foreclosures conducted on securitized promissory notes were fraudulent. This evidence was nuclear dangerous!

Case 3: Douglas Cheney101 234th Pl SEBothell, WA 98021 APN# 00546600000500906

A friend of my cousins, Doug Cheney, made contact with me after my cousin Lynn told him what I had been doing to help people fight foreclosure fraud. The party claiming to be beneficiary and the note-holder in his case was JP Morgan Chase with Bishop, White, Marshall, and Wiebel P.S. acting as trustee.

Doug detailed his story of trying to obtain a modification, playing the paperwork game sending them the same information over and over, and finally Chase coming back and saying they were either going to foreclosure or he could short sale the property.

Upon hearing his story, even though we were at the eleventh hour, I had Doug back out of the short- sale and send the initial challenge letter (article U) on 6/4/13 demanding that JP Morgan Chase provide evidence of proper standing. They replied with only copies of the note and deed, exactly the opposite ofwhat the letter asked for.

On 7/3/13, Doug sent a notice of default to Chase (article V) telling them that he was going to take action to secure his property.

On 7/9/13, Doug filed a successor trustee appointment in Snohomish County Recorder's Office (Document #201307090875) naming E.S.T.E.S. As the new lawful trustee.

On 7/15/13, I filed a reconveyance (Document #201307150713) dissolving the trust (Document # 200607250897) and granting Doug full legal and equitable title to his property. On 7/18/13, I sent this letter (article W) to JP Morgan Chase calling them out for this attempted theft and challenging them to take this matter into the courtroom.

On 7/18/13, Doug received a notice of eviction from Bishop, White, Marshall, and Weibel P.S. (BWMW)

On 7/19/13, Doug responded to them (article X) informing them that they conducted the trustee sale fraudulently and he would fight to stay in the property.

On 8/12/13, I made contact with Katherine at BWMW via email and she informed me that they intended to file an unlawful detainer suit against Doug. That's right, the trustee of his deed (although not lawfully) with a legal duty of good faith to him, was now going to sue him to evict him from the property after they fraudulently conducted a trustee sale of his property on behalf of JP Morgan Chase who had no lawful standing as beneficiary whatsoever.

On 8/1/13, BWMW filed the suit (12-2-06574-4) with Snohomish County Superior Court and on 8/26/13, I filed a full 94 page brief detailing all of the fraud that had been occurring. Finally, a judge was going to see what was happening. Even though law enforcement had no interest in protecting citizens from predatory foreclosure fraud by enforcing the laws, I was very confident that a judge would at least take the time to investigate the matter. All that was needed was for a subpoena to be issued demanding visual inspection of the note and deed and JP Morgan Chase would have been caught red-handed.

The FBI Initiates COINTELPRO against me:

Around the end of July, after getting home one day I found a dirty-blonde hair about 12-15” long in the bottom of my kitchen sink. I didn't know anyone with hair like that, so I figured it must have been from a friend who was stopping by on his return home from a wedding and that he picked it up from someone there.

On 8/5/13, I got up for my routine morning walk and as I went out the door, Spokane Police was talking to my neighbor, Brittain McNeil, and I was baffled as to why they were there so early. Brittain came over later to tell me that someone had left a threatening letter about Azrael the Angel of Death and Uriel the Angel of Justice for his wife Lucresia. He asked me to keep an eye out for anything strange and I agreed.

The next day, on 8/6/13, I was in my shop repairing a flat tire on my motorcycle and when I went to go back inside, I found my back door ajar. Thinking I had just not latched it properly, I went inside to utilize the restroom and found my medicine cabinet door wide open and blocking my sink. I realized right away someone had entered my house but it was strange that nothing was stolen even though my wallet with a couple hundred bucks in cash and my pistol were sitting right on my headboard. I called Spokane PD and an officer showed up to take my report. I also called my neighbor Brittain and left a voicemail telling him what had happened. I realized that the blonde hair in my sink might not have been from my friend at all, but perhaps it was someone coming in and looking for drugs in people's medicine cabinets as the neighborhood had come together a couple years ago with our neighborhood resource officer and busted a gal who was doing just that.

On 8/7/13, I went over to chat with Brittain and Lucresia about my break-in and the strange letter. We both agreed to keep an eye on each other's houses and I told him that I was heading to my parent's house in Bellingham for a couple weeks. Brittain told me, “We'll keep an eye on your house if you keep an eye on ours.” On 8/30/13, I made contact with Detective Dashiell of Spokane PD and she refused to investigate Wells Fargo and Quality Loan Service for conducting a patently fraudulent trustee sale, even though I had documented evidence that the beneficiary declaration was completely fraudulent. Later that day, I called the FBI and left a message as well as filled out a form on their online portal referencing the Spokane PD case number and the nature of the new evidence since perjury is a federal crime.

Upon returning home from Bellingham, I saw that the McNeil's were packing up and moving out. I didn't blame them one bit, I felt pretty creeped out knowing someone was in my house without my permission so I could only imagine how Lucresia felt. I was hoping to say goodbye to them before they left, but I was so busy all I could afford was a wave goodbye to Brittain as I rode my motorcycle out and he waved back.

On 9/3/13, just a few days later, I was on my regular afternoon walk around the neighborhood when an Officer Gately from Spokane PD and a Jim Nelson from Spokane Mental Health pointed at me and said,

“Brent Russ, we need to talk to you.”

I was thinking, how do they know who I am? I asked what it was all about and Jim Nelson starts in on how the FBI was investigating me for leaving a threatening letter on my former neighbor, Lucresia McNeil's, porch. He then asked me if I wanted to harm myself or others, asked me if I own firearms, asked me who Ezekiel is, what my alcohol consumption was, and if I wanted to harm my neighbors. I told him I don't harm my neighbors, I help my neighbors and quickly briefed him on my assistance with Anthony and Heather against a fraudulent foreclosure. I told Officer Gately that I was working with Detective Dashiell at Spokane Police Department on a case and he tells me, “Oh, that case is closed”, while grinning like the Cheshire cat. Nelson went on to inform me that Lucresia McNeil had reported me to Spokane Mental Health as a crazy and dangerous person.

I knew right away what was happening as the timing of these accusations, in addition to Gately knowing that I was working on the case against Wells Fargo and had evidence that their beneficiary declaration was perjurious in nature, was absolutely in no way a coincidence. Knowing that I would be going before a judge in Snohomish County on the Cheney case very shortly, I knew that this was their only shot at beating me – cast me off as a lunatic. I also knew that the FBI would have no jurisdiction in a crime like that, so their very involvement in the start was suspicious in nature. I emailed my family (article Y) on 9/3/13 letting them know that I was being investigated by the FBI while at the same time asking the FBI to help me investigate foreclosure fraud.

I thought of what I could do, and the only answer I could come up with was to get a retraction out of Lucresia. I then drafted a letter (article Z) on 9/5/13 demanding a letter of apology, a retraction of the claims against me, or I would file the following suits against them. Since they had moved and I had no forwarding address, I sent a copy to their old address next door hoping it would forward and another copy to her work post office box in Usk, WA just in case because I didn't really want to sue them, I just needed to have that retraction and an apology before I handled Doug's case in court.

A few days went by and I heard no reply. I then left a message on Brittain's phone on 9/18/13 telling him that I was going to file those lawsuits on September 20th at noon if I didn't hear back.

On Friday, September 20th, I was awoken around 8:30am by a pounding on my door and words, “FBI....WARRANT!”

I threw on my pajama bottoms and opened the door to an assault rifle pointed in my face. I was cuffed and put on my knees while they cleared my house. At that point, one of the agents grabbed the cuffs and tried to lift me to my feet. As my arm wrenched up behind my back, I could feel a popping in my elbow and my left pinky finger and side of my hand became numb.

Agent Frank Harrill asked me if I knew why they were there and I told him: because of the work I was doing fighting fraudulent foreclosures. Frank asked why the FBI would do that and I reminded him that his retirement fund and all of his agent's funds were directly tied to the stocks of the big banks I was going directly after. He played stupid but I could see it on his face, that was EXACTLY why they were there. It is no secret, as page nine of the Thrift Savings Fund financial report details, that employees of the U.S. Federal government have tens of billions of dollars in mortgage backed securities as retirement investments. www.tsp.gov/PDF/formspubs/financial-stmt.pdf

It is no secret in the C fund for the Federal Employee Retirement System, that Wells Fargo and JP Morgan Chase are in the top 10 of their largest stock holdings: https://www.tsp.gov/PDF/formspubs/CFund.pdf

Harrill then sat me down and began to interrogate me while agents combed through my house. They asked me to open my wall safe and I did so. Upon opening it, one of the agents grabbed the journal I had kept after having a dream that I believed was from God calling me to go after the banks, what the world would come to if I didn't fight them, and God's promise to me of a wonderful wife if I did as He asked. I kept the journal for this woman hoping to one day gift it to her when we met.

The agent grabbed the journal out, acting like he had found a pile of gold, and then opened it immediately about half way through. I was ushered back to my living room where Harrill continued to

interrogate me. The other agent then came in with the journal, Harrill opened it to the front page (article AA) and asked if that was my handwriting. Recognizing it as my own, I confirmed. He then opened it to a page about half way through where the first agent immediately turned it after taking out of the safe. Instead of the pen I had kept my journal in and ALWAYS write in, written in pencil on the page (article BB) were the words: “My name is Azrael, I am the Angel of Death.” I had a nervous breakdown, began tapping my foot and fidgeting. I was completely dumbfounded. I felt more uncomfortable than Vicki Weaver did when that FBI sniper's bullet tore through her innocent body at Ruby Ridge. I realized right then what the FBI was doing to me, COINTELPRO (www.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO) (article CC).

Here are three of the main strategies utilized by the FBI in COINTELPRO operations, they might look familiar in the context of my story:

• – Psychological warfare: The FBI and police used myriad "dirty tricks" to undermine progressive movements. They planted false media stories and published bogus leaflets and other publications in the name of targeted groups. They forged correspondence, sent anonymous letters, and made anonymous telephone calls. They spread misinformation about meetings and events, set up pseudo movement groups run by government agents, and manipulated or strong- armed parents, employers, landlords, school officials and others to cause trouble for activists. They used bad-jacketing to create suspicion about targeted activists, sometimes with lethal consequences.

• – Legal harassment: The FBI and police abused the legal system to harass dissidents and make them appear to be criminals. Officers of the law gave perjured testimony and presented fabricated evidence as a pretext for false arrests and wrongful imprisonment. They discriminatorily enforced tax laws and other government regulations and used conspicuous surveillance, "investigative" interviews, and grand jury subpoenas in an effort to intimidate activists and silence their supporters.

• – Illegal force: The FBI conspired with local police departments to threaten dissidents; to conduct illegal break-ins in order to search dissident homes; and to commit vandalism, assaults, beatings and assassinations. The object was to frighten or eliminate dissidents and disrupt their movements.

In 2011, Special Agent In Charge Ted Gunderson, former head of the FBI divisions in L.A. and Dallas, confirmed in this sworn affidavit that he had over a thousand files of rogue FBI agents conducting similar operations like this on whistleblowers like me and many others: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxIZng5ynDOBNkdXYnJrLXFUdUU/edit?usp=sharing

I couldn't think at that point, I didn't know if they were going to just execute me like they did Ibragim Todashev or what. I was freaking out trying to think of a way out of the trap. I was just babbling trying to think of a way to counter their nefarious plot. I realized right away that the hair I found in my house and the break-in were directly related. The reason nothing was taken when my house was broken into was because they were LEAVING items, not taking them. I also realized that I had been under surveillance for quite some time.

As I sat and thumbed through the journal, I realized the FBI had just cleverly duped me into putting my fingerprints and DNA all over the pages I didn't write. They had just both manufactured evidence and destroyed exculpatory evidence by breaking numerous evidence handling protocols. I knew it was a

frame-job at this point. I examined the journal closely and noticed that there were plier marks on the tips of the wire binding. I looked closer and indeed, each wire loop had been pried open so the pages could be removed, different pages added, and then pried shut. I noted this to Agent Edwards sitting right by the voice recorder and as soon as I made him aware of the tampering, he asked for me to hand it back. I knew he was in on the plot at that point, it was a sinking feeling. Harrill walked over to my dinner table shortly after and asked me about all the legal filings and letters from Wells Fargo and JP Morgan Chase. I told him what I was doing to fight the banks and he grabbed the letter from Wells Fargo (article S) confirming that Keoviseth Seung was not the Vice President of Loan Documentation and had perjured herself on the beneficiary declaration. He said, “this is very interesting”, asked if the envelope on the table was the one it came in, and then slid the letter into the envelope and tucked it under his arm. I knew it was over at that point, the FBI had come in and got exactly what I had reported to them I possessed.

I remained very polite, cordial, and compliant as I could be just hoping they wouldn't murder me like they've done to so many in the past during COINTELPRO operations. Harrill asked if I wanted to speak to a mental health counselor and I agreed. He asked if they could take my firearms and I agreed. I agreed to everything and was compliant as possible. Harrill stepped outside when the lady from Spokane Mental Health showed up, talked to her for a bit, and then he asked if I would go to Sacred Heart for an evaluation. I agreed, thinking it would be my quickest route away from them.

Shortly thereafter, an ambulance showed up in front of my house. Thinking I would just jump in and take a ride down there, I locked up my house and walked outside. Instead, I was put on a gurney and strapped down. As the paramedic restrained me, I realized that this wasn't going to be an in-and-out evaluation. They were going to lock me up! Once I got to Sacred Heart, I was placed in a cell in the triage center and realized what was happening. They took my blood and urine for examination and I began to break down crying realizing the scope of the situation I was in. When some people from Spokane Mental Health came in, I immediately tried to explain to them that I was being set up by the FBI because I had evidence that would collapse the derivatives market and major U.S. Banks. As soon as I said that, I got that “high-brow frowny-face look” that psychological workers always give crazy people. You know the look, it's kind of like this:

I realized at that point the trap that had been set. If I went into that hospital and tried to tell them the FBI was conspiring against me because I had obtained evidence that would indict the big banks; those doctors would say that I was a paranoid delusional psychotic and a judge would order me locked away at Eastern State Hospital for the rest of my life. It was the same thing that happened to Gustl Mollath in

Germany when he told the psychiatrists he was being framed because he had evidence that Hypo Vereinsbank was laundering money into Switzerland to evade taxes. He was locked up for eight years before the evidence finally leaked proving he was correct: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/nov/28/gustl-mollath-hsv-claims-fraud

I broke down again crying realizing it was the perfect trap. I never had felt so helpless in my entire life. It was then I realized that I had to keep my mouth shut and come up with an exit strategy.

I asked to make a phone call but was told no long distance calls. Only my cousins in Spokane were a local call and no thanks to cellphones, I had stopped memorizing phone numbers in the 90's.

They waited until Friday at midnight to officially book me in, so I sat locked up for 12 hours without it counting towards the 72 hour maximum legal requirement before I could see a judge. Then, all Saturday and Sunday didn't count because apparently, when you are fraudulently locked up in a loony-bin against your will, weekends magically don't count. The timing of the FBI raid on Friday was impeccable. On Sunday night, the 22nd, I was moved from the cell in the triage center to the Acute Care Psychiatric Center where I had a private room and a common area. What I didn't know at the time was my parents, who were worried sick trying to find me, had filed a missing persons report with Spokane PD. My uncle Randy also called the FBI because I had let the family know via email that I was being investigated weeks before. The FBI denied having any contact with me and told him they didn't know where I was. My parents went to the press to get my story out, but the FBI beat them to the punch and the local news affiliates came out with stories calling me the “angel of death” and claiming that I was some nut-job barricaded in his house. It was all very reminiscent of Operation Mockingbird. Finally on Sunday night, my cousin Lynn was able to call in and make contact with me after desperately calling every hospital in town. I confirmed that I had been abducted and let her know where I was and that I was safe.

On Monday the 23rd I called the Spokane Public Defenders office and left a message stating that I was being held against my will at Sacred Heart and needed to speak with an attorney immediately. I never heard back.

On Tuesday the 24th, realizing I was never going to get out of that place by telling the truth, I finally came up with an exit strategy. I originally wanted to go with substance abuse, but I remembered they took blood and urine samples. So, when one of the nurses came to talk with me I told her that I was completely lucid but had just suffered from serious alcohol abuse and was drunk when I wrote some crazy stuff. The ploy worked. I waited by the corner of the nurses station and overheard her call the doctor telling him that I was fine and ready to move to the open side.

I had evaluations from multiple doctors and fed them all the B.S. story about being an alcoholic and I couldn't remember any of this stuff I was accused of. Of course the part about me not remembering any of it was true, because I didn't do any of it. I took the Minnesota Multiphasic bubble tests and was careful to lie on all the paranoia diagnostic questions. Good thing too, if I would have answered those questions honestly they would have locked me up as a paranoid delusional in a heartbeat. I also admitted to every question about alcohol abuse.

One of the doctors met with me on Wednesday the 25th and told me that I had a psychotic event but

was fine now and he was going to petition the court to discharge me on Thursday. I felt so relieved, my plan had worked. I was going home!

An officer of the court met with me that afternoon and showed me the petition filed by Shelby Whitworth of Spokane Mental Health to have me forcibly committed for another 14 days. In the 'reasons to detain defendant' section there were the most flaccid arguments I had ever seen in my entire life for a case of any sort:

“Referral source reports Respondent presents with the following symptoms of a mental disorder:”

“Has aluminum foil on gloves”. (Of course I had foil on gloves, I used those gloves to adjust the idle mixture screw on my KLR650 motorcycle which required me holding my hands directly above and below the exhaust pipe while the engine was piping hot. If the foil was not there, the gloves would melt onto my hand. I watched a lot of McGuyver growing up, so sue me)

“Has aluminum on windows”. (On my SW bay windows were two sheets of 3003 H14 16ga aluminum that were painted black on one side. These were prototype direct solar to thermal panels that I was conducting a 12 month research program on to determine their effect on my heating bills. At that point, they had cut my power bill by almost 30%. I was planning, if the energy savings warranted the cost of fabrication, to mount them in separate enclosures on the outside of the house like solar water heaters should they prove effective.)

“Has aluminum foil on walls”. (As I regularly design and built electronic devices for my business (PWM's, Logic Controllers, Wiring harnesses, etc..); I required a static free clean room to work with board components. In my utility room I had put foil on a couple walls to protect them from solder splatter and give me a place to draw out wiring harness plans in dry erase marker, pin up the wiring, and solder all the connectors and loom everything together for a perfect fit for my customers without having to bend over on the floor and throw out my back again.)

“Has survival “gear” throughout the home including backpacks, large buckets of food, full camouflage suits”. (I am an avid backpacker and motorcycle adventure tourer, of course I have survival gear. I keep storable food on hand for emergencies (ready.gov). The camouflage suit was a present for my 16th birthday from my parents for a high altitude alpine deer hunt.)

“He used military jargon and identified the weapons using military or law enforcement terms, evidencing familiarity with firearms” - (When they opened my wall safe, I just mentioned that my carry pistols were “condition 1” (military term for loaded with safety engaged) so that they would handle them with extra care. Apparently to Shelby Whitworth, warning someone about a potential hazard is bat-shit crazy.)

As I tried to go through each of these items and explain them to the court officer, she started giving me that typical frowny high-brow look like I was crazy. I started to explain my solar heater experiment and wanted to get into thermal capacitance vs. thermal inductance but all I got was that look from her. All I could remember was the quote, “The thing about smart people is they sound crazy to dumb people.” She asked about the journal and why I had written crazy stuff for so long. Not knowing how much of

my journal had been altered, I just told her that I was an alcoholic for 3-4 months and couldn't remember anything from that time. She looked unconvinced, but it didn't matter because my exit strategy had worked.

On Thursday morning, someone from the Spokane Public Defenders office finally contacted me and told me to keep my mouth shut because the FBI was building a case against me. I wasn't quite sure what they were trying to charge me with at that point, but at noon I was called for court and was hoping to go in and have the judge send me home. Instead, obviously furious that I had outsmarted their plan to have me permanently committed, Agent Ryan Edwards and Agent Frank Harrill were waiting for me in the courtroom. There, they arrested me for 18 U.S. CODE § 2261A – Stalking.

After shackling me up, I was taken by Agent Edwards to the Federal building. En route, Agent Edwards told me 'you should have just left our banks alone'. I was processed, thrown into the tank, and later made an initial appearance before Magistrate John Rodgers. I was then taken to Spokane County Jail, processed in, and then placed into a cell with a semi-professional MMA fighter named “Killer Kodiak” who I was pretty sure could kill me in a minute with his bare hands. I was scared to death. I was eventually indicted on one count of stalking against my former neighbor, Lucresia McNeil. Apparently, the letter I had sent threatening to sue them if they didn't apologize for defaming my character and for their dog biting me multiple times constituted a threat to the Feds. So much for the First Amendment I suppose.

I met with my attorneys, Andrea George and Amy Rubin of the Federal Defenders and stuck with my original story telling them I was just an alcoholic and couldn't remember doing all this crazy stuff. I hadn't yet seen or had been able to comprehend what all I was accused of, and I didn't even know for certain that I could trust my attorneys as they received a paycheck from the same people coming after me. So, I just winged it and tried to keep on my toes as the information came in. One thing was for sure though, I didn't stalk Lucresia McNeil and I was adamant with them about that fact.

I had a bail hearing and was hopeful to be released on my own recognizance. After all, I had never harmed or threatened to harm a single person in my entire life. I was an upstanding citizen, friends withall my neighbors (except Lucresia apparently), and I had many ties to the community that I loved and worked to defend.

At that hearing though, prosecutor Rudy Verschoor came up and presented all of this delusional material they claimed was mine. I quickly thumbed through this stack of documents trying to understand what they were accusing me of doing. In it was this “Love Letter To Humanity” written by someone named Azrael the Angel of Death they “found” on Twitter (https://t.co/RlnR09kXib) calling for the dissolution of the Federal Government. Probably like the FBI “found” those bullet holes in Sam and Vicki Weaver. In that document, my name was mentioned as Azrael's ambassador. They tied this document to me through the journal they had altered and placed in my home. They didn't produce any evidence whatsoever that this document was generated on my laptop or uploaded from my computer. They also never even produced any evidence that I was ever on Twitter to begin with. In addition, the email to my family proved that I knew they were investigating me ahead of the raid, so if there was any evidence whatsoever that would implicate me, I would have been sure to destroy it.

On the delusional letter left on Lucresia's porch, the only evidence that tied me to it was a partial fingerprint on one side of the paper. No prints on the plastic bag it was in, no prints on the box it was in, just the very tip of my finger on one side of the paper. Well, every single piece of paper on top of

my printer tray had the very tip of my fingerprint on it because my printer likes to double-feed, so I have to lift up the top sheet and hold the rest of the stack down when I print so it doesn't jamb. How could I handle a piece of paper with just one finger on just one side? I would have had to pinch it between fingers, but there was no thumb print on the back side of the paper. And, if there was my fingerprint on it, that means I didn't have any gloves on, so my finger prints should have been all over the plastic envelope and the box – but surprise, surprise...they WEREN'T! Again, the only evidence was the planted evidence written in pencil. It was plainly obvious to me that this piece of paper had been taken from my house from whoever had been surveilling me. In the discovery, the FBI was also careful to intentionally overexpose all the images of my journal entries so it could not be discerned that the writing utensil changed.

Then Rudy started reading passages from my journal, the crazy stuff written in pencil that was not written by me as I wrote in pen. He quotes me as saying I'm suicidal, the “wrath of God”, building a “kill room” like Dexter and all this crazy nonsense. Now, keep in mind, this guy has the journal at his disposal. He can plainly see the stark contrast of my original entries written in pen at the beginning when I was writing to my future wife (article AA) and all the crazy stuff written in pencil (article BB) he was quoting from.

Then Rudy starts going into the “highly modified” firearms that were in my safe and how he believed I was going to go on a rampage and kill everyone. Apparently, putting a turkey barrel on your Remington 870 with a Carlson's breeching choke is “highly modifying” your firearm to make it ready to go on a rampage. He probably thought taking the plug out of the thing was suspect too. Maybe he thought my open class IPSC Glock 34 was modified for shooting up schools instead of competing in target sports like it was designed for. It was apparent after Rudy's mealy-mouth rant about how dangerous I was, that even he didn't believe a word of the diarrhea that was coming from his mouth.

Sadly Magistrate Rodgers, in a bid to beat out that guy on the Quaker Oats tubes for who has more mush between their ears, ate up Rudy's blatant lies like a sponge soaks up water and ordered me detained with no bail. It's not surprising given that this was the same person who issued the search warrant for my house, “coincidentally” timed to perfectly intercept my filing of the lawsuits against the McNeils in Superior Court.

I returned to Spokane County Jail and was crushed. Thinking I had outsmarted them at Sacred Heart and could get free and go to the press with my story and all the backed up evidence I had secured off site from my house; I was now faced with a bleak reality. The Feds were not going to let me keep doing what I was doing. That was apparent. If it came out that the trillions in derivatives are not legally collateralized by the properties and the banks can not foreclose properly, it could devastate every one of the Federal Government employee's retirement plans. They would be wiped out and the lawsuits against the banks from the investors who purchased these certificates would collapse them. I had kicked the biggest hornets nest in the history of the world, and now I was feeling the sting of 'too big to fail'.

The hardest part was being isolated from my family. I couldn't communicate the truth of what happened to them because everything was monitored in and out of the jail. Even letters I would send would be postmarked up to seven days after I sent them out, so I knew my mail was being opened and read before mailing. This gave me an opportunity to plant misinformation to the prosecution, which I took the liberty of doing so. My family also reported being under surveillance by blacked out SUVs, having their phones tapped, and their emails ported where they wouldn't be delivered for days.

My attorneys said that in order to get me out on bail, the magistrate would need to see the evaluations completed by Sacred Heart. I filled out a release of information and gave it to Erik Carlson of pre-trial services. I sat for weeks waiting for the report, the hospital drug it out to the maximum of 30 days. My family called and hounded them every day.

Finally we got the report back and my attorneys informed me that it was controversial and not enough to get me released. Even though I had passed all the tests and was confirmed safe to be released while I was at Sacred Heart, a Dr. Thomas Mitchell wrote in his report:

“Overall, his presentation was inconsistent with his reported history of apparent disorganized/paranoid behavior per his records.” (Astute observation, Copernicus. They weren't MY records at all, it was the B.S. from the FBI.)

Dr. Mitchell's report on my Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 RF states, “Results also indicated that this patient sees his level of aggression as being lower than average.”

Then, in a fit of Orwellian 'double-think', Dr. Mitchell concludes;

“Given the patients apparent level of disorganized/paranoid thinking prior to his hospitalization, along with his lack of disclosure/guardedness during the current evaluation, his risk of harming himself and/or others is estimated to be moderate to high without treatment.”

It's kind of hard to disclose anything about things I DIDN'T DO. And, if someone was trying to have you permanently locked up, you might be a little guarded too. Nonetheless, even though I was very polite, compliant, and cooperative through my entire stay at Sacred Heart, Dr. Mitchell concluded, based on the fabricated COINTELPRO evidence offered by the FBI and not at all on his personal observations of me, that I was a risk and that was enough to keep my locked up.

Upon hearing this news, I was heartbroken. The conditions in the jail are horrible. I was locked down in a 6' x 12' cell with “Killer Kodiak” on average 164 hours a week. The water in the showers was always ice cold. A bright fluorescent light shone in my face all night. I slept maybe 3-4 hours at a time and then had to wake up because my body ached from the broken down 2” thick flimsy mats. The cell smelled like urine. The calories were barely enough to sustain me and loaded with processed carbs. They put a true lunatic above me who would bang on his sink and scream day and night. I was malnourished, sleep deprived, in fear for my life, and I couldn't communicate with my family. It was the lowest I had ever been in my life. This went on for weeks.

My attorneys then presented me with another option. They were going to have an independent evaluation done by a local doctor they had used before and they would use his report to get me released on bail. I agreed...whatever it took to get me out is what I would do. I had to be released so I could get to the media with my story, it was the only way to back the Feds down and exonerate myself.

I waited many more weeks and finally saw the doctor. I had been able to read through the discovery by then and had a much better sense of what I was being accused of. I kept up the same story of having a vision, being an alcoholic and I couldn't remember doing any of this stuff, but I was able to fill in some more details based on the discovery I had seen. I was pretty nervous going into the evaluation to begin

with, but remembering what I learned from “The Deliberate Dumbing Down Of America” by Dr. Iserbyt, the former Senior Policy Advisor in the Department of Education, I knew that anyone with the title of “Doctor” had eight full years of idiot training in our education system and that was seven more years of brainwashing than I had received. These people were already predisposed to think anyone talking to them has psychological issues so how hard could it be, right? Plus, the entire field of psychiatry and psychology is quackery, it's not based on any scientific principles, just someone's opinion: http://www.naturalnews.com/045682_psychiatry_medical_fraud_secret_documents.html I delivered the best performance of my life and it worked. We finally got the review and recommendation for release from an “expert”. Hoping to be out in time for Thanksgiving to spend with my family, we filed a motion for a hearing of the new information but was denied at the 11th hour. Having my hopes set on being able to hug my family for Thanksgiving and then realizing I was going to be spending four days in a row, 24 hours a day, on lock-down in Spokane County Jail instead absolutely crushed my heart. Upon receiving the news, I just went back to my cell and broke down. Thankfully, Amy Rubin went out of her way to come in on Saturday and do a legal visit just to get me out of my cell for an hour.

We had a hearing with Judge Rice the next week and were hopeful to have him order me released, but in an incredibly bizarre maneuver, Prosecutor Rudy Verschoor made the argument to Judge Rice that I was completely incompetent to even stand trial and even though the doctors at Sacred Heart and the evaluation from our own retained doctor confirmed the opposite, Rudy pulled from his hat an obscure ruling from the 9th district Court that mandated I also be evaluated by the prosecution's Doctor.

Going into that hearing thinking I was going to be released, and then hearing that lying little sociopath make that argument was infuriating. He KNEW I was completely competent, my family confirmed that the Feds were monitoring our phone calls and my outgoing mail was also clearly being monitored. He had my laptop with all my legal writings dealing with foreclosures, he had heard the audio-tape from my house where I noted to Agent Edwards my journal was tampered with, he had seen the plier marks on the wire binding of my journal, he had my phone records showing I contacted the FBI, he knew Edwards manufactured evidence against me, he knew my house was broken into, he knew Edwards perjured himself, he knew Edwards destroyed exculpatory evidence, he had all my emails for months – he had access to all that data and yet still continued with his pathological lies. Unfortunately for me, Judge Rice agreed with the 9th District's ruling and ordered me to be evaluated by the prosecutor's Doctor. This meant no release.

I was confused by Rudy's tactics until my attorney, Andrea George, visited me and filled me in on what Rudy was after. She had gone to Rudy and asked him to just drop the case against me because the charges were patently absurd. In response, Rudy admitted to her in that private meeting: (paraphrasing)“We don't think Brent did anything wrong, we're not looking for a conviction against him, we just want to take away his rights.” Andrea also tried to work out a pre-trial diversion deal but Rudy refused. Andrea and Amy told me that they have never seen Rudy act like this before.

I wasn't surprised by Judge Rice's ruling given the fact that Rudy Verschoor first approached the bench in my case by taking three upright steps, signaling to Judge Rice that he was a Master Freemason. People don't walk like this naturally, it is a very deliberate and intentional “token” to signify their membership and rank in the lodge. http://www.ctmin.org/pdf/thecourstsystemandfreemasonry.pdf

Also, at the close of every single argument Rudy made, he gave the iconic Mason token, the three finger clasp of his glasses, and he would hold that pose until Judge Rice would look up and acknowledge the signal with a nod. There is no reason that Rudy would have to resort to utilizing this advantage in the court room if his arguments had any merit at all. Resorting to this collusion with Judge Rice meant one thing and one thing only; Rudy knew he had no case and wouldn't be able to subvert justice based on his fallacious arguments alone, he would have to utilize this advantage to win rulings. I also noted him making sixteen separate Masonic signals throughout the course of my hearings, here they are for reference: http://www.whale.to/b/12_masonic_signs.html

This isn't anything new as the judicial system and law enforcement have always been heavily Masonic. On the Northwest corner of Thomas S. Foley Courthouse, the very courthouse I was fighting at, is a lectern statue signifying that this was Freemason territory:

Right away I understood what they were pressing. I had thwarted their attempt to have the judge order me insane at Sacred Heart, so now they were going to see if they could get me ruled incompetent by Judge Rice so I could be locked away at Eastern State Hospital at their discretion. Even though Rudy had no real case against me, and admitted it, it didn't matter because all he had to do was use his Masonic influence and Judge Rice would side with him every single time. And he did.

My cousin Lynn informed me that while the Feds had me conveniently detained, Doug was unable to prevent the judge from ordering his eviction at his hearing on 11/26/13. JP Morgan Chase and Bishop, White, Marshall, and Weibel P.S. had stolen another home. I was incredibly upset to hear this news. Wells Fargo, upon knowing the evidence against them was secured, then moved on both the Chodorowski's and Stacy Sjolund and stole their properties. Why were criminals out stealing, free as the wind, yet I was locked up for trying to stop them?

Knowing that stalking is a crime of specific intent, the most sure defense to all this crazy stuff would be diminished capacity. If I couldn't have formed the intent at the time of the crime and could prove that, the prosecution wouldn't have a case. I transferred down to Benton County Jail at underwent evaluations by another doctor we retained and then saw the prosecutor's doctor. I sent the same 'vision and alcoholic' story up the flag-pole (I was pretty good at it by now, lots of time to practice in my head with all the lockdown time in the cell) and it flew perfectly. Both doctors came back confirming I was competent and both found I had diminished capacity. I knew I had checked Rudy and his Masonic advantage.

One of my investigators answered a question that had been lingering in my mind during one of her interviews. While interviewing Chelsea White and Michael White of 3028 W 17th Ave, Spokane, WA 99224 who falsely accused me of attacking Lucresia's dog unprovoked; she relayed that Chelsea had an incredible amount of detail regarding my activities over the year. Chelsea stated that I moved into my house in 2010 (actually it was 2007) but although she did not even know I lived there for those three years, she went into very high detail of my activities in 2013. I have never met these people and our properties are two houses apart separated by a 7ft high wood fence, so how they could know what was going on in my back yard with so much accuracy was astounding to me. When the investigator informed me that Chelsea had problems with her foot, I remembered seeing a person on crutches go into that house – and that person's hair was EXACTLY like the hair I found in my sink. In another coincidence, Michael White, who I'm told used SNAP benefits to upgrade the insulation in his house, was also driving a recently purchased truck worth about half as much as his house. These were most likely the people in my house. These were perhaps the very people who left the letter on Lucresia McNeil's porch in their attempt to set me up, if the McNeil's were not in on it themselves.

In Lucresia's statement to Agent Edwards, she claimed I stalked her at the Northern Quest Casino where she is stationed for the Kalispell Tribal Police. Even with the multitudes of cameras there, they never showed once where I set foot on that property. She also claimed that I changed my name in 2013. I changed my last name in 2009, but there is no way she could have known that because I never told her. The only way she could have known is if she was surveilling me or was coached by the FBI in her statement, which, by the way, wasn't recorded on tape. Her identity was obscured the entire time with the prosecution referring to her only as “LM”. She was also present at her husbands interview to make sure their stories corroborated. This is classic COINTELPRO activity along with manufacturing evidence against me by breaking evidence handling protocols when they let me handle the journal with no gloves. On January 6th, 2013, I transferred back up to Spokane County Jail for my hearing on Friday the 10th.

When Rudy heard that his doctor found me completely competent and also found diminished capacity, he knew his case against me was truly sunk, so on Tuesday the 7th, he vindictively filed a superseding indictment against me and added two counts of:

18 U.S. CODE § 876 - MAILING THREATENING COMMUNICATIONS:

(d) Whoever, with intent to extort from any person any money or other thing of value, knowingly so deposits or causes to be delivered, as aforesaid, any communication, with or without a name or designating mark subscribed thereto, addressed to any other person and containing any threat to injure the property or reputation of the addressee or of another, or the reputation of a deceased person, or any threat to accuse the addressee or any other person of a crime, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both. If such a communication is addressed to a United States judge, a Federal law enforcement officer, or an official who is covered by section 1114, the individual shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both.

Apparently Rudy now believed that my letter asking for an apology from Lucresia McNeil (An officer for the Kalispell Tribe, a Federal law enforcement officer he claimed) or I would sue her, constituted mailing threatening communications. I'm pretty sure that threatening to sue someone unless they apologized is Constitutionally protected free speech, but apparently to the Feds that now fits the definition of extortion. Of course, you are probably understanding that this wasn't about whether or not I committed a crime at all. It was about one thing, and Rudy Verschoor admitted it straight out: “We want to take away his rights.” How Rudy got that indictment is amazing given the facts, but not that amazing considering Magistrate Rodgers also exchanged Masonic pleasantries with Rudy in my presence. They could indict me for any charges they felt like with no evidence whatsoever because the justice system was a Kangaroo Court run by this clique top to bottom.

Andrea George filed a motion to dismiss based on the first amendment protected speech as I only threatened to sue, not to do anything unlawful or violent. Andrea filed another motion to dismiss based on jurisdiction as the letter I mailed threatening to sue her was sent to a Post Office Box in Usk, WA which is not in “Indian Country” as defined by the stalking statute. Rudy was claiming that I sent it to Lucresia's place of employment, the Northern Quest Casino which is on Indian Trust land. Meanwhile, the envelope they presented as evidence clearly shows “Usk, WA” right on it. How it proceeded into Indian Country is beyond my knowledge. For all I know, Lucresia picked it up at the Post Office (not on tribal land) and drove it there herself. Lastly, Andrea filed a motion to reevaluate my release.

I was picked up by the U.S. Marshals at Spokane County Jail for my hearing and still had not been issued any shoes since my arrival on Monday. As I entered the van, my socks became soaked in the slush that was on the step. My feet were half numb as I sat in the tank. One of the Marshals asked me why I didn't have shoes and I told him that the jail refused to provide them for me. I made a comment about how classy an outfit the jail was and he responded, “That's why I recommend staying out of jail.”His attitude pretty much spoke loud and clear to me. Sociopaths always blame the victim.

My family was in attendance at the hearing on January 10th and we were all flabbergasted at what Rudy Verschoor would attempt to do. In his response for my motion to release, he responded saying that it was only because of the medications I was on that I was 'barely lucid'. Upon Andrea informing Rudy that I hadn't been on any medications since October, Rudy then came up to the podium and claimed that because I wasn't on any medications, I was more likely to be a danger to the community. I was astounded by his desperation. Watching him nervously grind his foot into the ground while he

spurted this rubbish was unbelievable to watch, it was incredibly obvious he was lying and I think everyone picked up on it from the multitude of eye-rolling I witnessed throughout the courtroom.

I sat over the weekend and on Monday the 13th got the news: our motion to dismiss based on protected free speech would be allowed after the Feds presented their chief in case at trial. The motion to dismiss based on jurisdiction was denied. And the most shocking ruling to me, even after two doctors found me competent and not a threat to the community, Judge Rice disagreed with their findings and ordered me detained because one the doctors believed that I was under-reporting symptoms. It's kind of hard to report symptoms I never had, but at least that doctor was smart enough to pick up on the fact that the claims against me didn't match how I acted in person.

I went back to my cell after hearing the news just completely frustrated. There was apparently only one way out of this mess, and that was an acquittal.

On Thursday the 16th at 4pm, I met with Andrea and Amy and they said that the government had reconsidered our previous pretrial diversion offer and it was on the table. I thought it over and agreed to take the deal. On Friday the 17th, 2013 – after 117 days of being locked up in awful conditions by these sociopaths, I was finally able to wrap my arms around my family. I was finally free to tell them what really happened. At this point, they all thought I was just a crazy drunk. The only message I was able to get out securely was a letter I wrote and held up to the glass for my aunt and uncle during a visit. They were the only people who knew what was really going on during all this. I never knew if I could fully trust my legal team due to the nature of what I was facing, but after I walked out of the Spokane County Jail a free man – they confirmed that they deserve all the trust in the world.

Conclusions:

I realized how dangerous the evidence I had obtained against Wells Fargo was when I first acquired it and although the FBI has probably destroyed the original evidence, I still have high quality pictures and copies of it from the back-ups I hid offsite.

I seriously considered letting this entire issue drop and just trotting off into the sunset with my head held low. When I spoke with my parents about coming out with this story, my mom wrapped her arms around me crying saying, “I won't let them take you again.”

There is the very real possibility that this report will get me into serious trouble again. Maybe this time it will cost much more than my temporary detainment. As I told a friend when I first obtained the evidence, “First they'll try to frame me, then they'll try to bribe me, then they'll try to kill me.” Option one failed, option two WILL fail, and now, thanks to the conditions of my diversion, I am conveniently disarmed. I will have to live like a felon for the next five years.

When I look back at what I've suffered, what I've endured, and I ask myself if I would do it again, I reach the same conclusion: most definitely. My dad did NOT raise a spineless punk like Rudy Verschoor, Agent Harrill, Agent Edwards, or any of these banksters. He raised me to do the right thing no matter what the cost. If I walk away now, I will betray myself, my principles, but most importantly, I will betray my father and everything he has done to raise me. I can not allow that to happen.

That said, I am asking that the following actions be taken immediately:

– A fully public audit and investigation of the Federal Bureau of Investigation by the Washington State Attorney Generals office including ALL internal FBI communications and correspondence regarding EVERY case involving Washington State citizens in the last 5 years.

– An immediate injunction against the FBI for further activity in the great state of Washington until the completion of the investigation.

– An audit of every foreclosure conducted on behalf of Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, and Wells Fargo in the last 5 years including a full securitization audit of the promissory notes.

– An immediate freeze on all foreclosures until this audit is completed.

– An immediate end to the non-judicial foreclosure process.

– An amendment to RCW 61.24 demanding that the party claiming status of beneficiary in the deed of trust physically present the original blue-ink signed promissory note and deed of trust to the court before proceeding with a trustee sale.

– An amendment to RCW 61.24 specifically clarifying that the grantor has the power to appoint a successor trustee if the party claiming to be beneficiary refuses to present the original blue ink signature promissory note and deed of trust upon written demand.

– In honor of Justice Tom Chambers who specifically ordered McCarthy-Holthus and Bishop, White, Marshall, and Weibel P.S. in the Bain vs. MERS ruling to stop acting as closing agents for the banks; the Washington State Bar Association should bring disbarment action against all attorneys at these companies involved in the theft of innocent people's houses.

– Disbarment should be brought against U.S. Prosecutor Rudy Verschoor.

– A full investigation into Detective Alan Smith and Whatcom County Sheriff's Office.

– A full investigation into Spokane Police Department and Detective Janice Dashiell.

– A full investigation into FBI agents Frank Harrill and Ryan Edwards.

While I remain unconvinced that Lucresia McNeil was involved in this from the start, I do recognize that her perjurious statements were instrumental in the government bringing this illegal and unjust action against me. It is indeed very possible and probable that she was either threatened or bribed by the Agent Edwards and/or Harrill to say what she said, and if that is the case, I wouldn't hold her accountable at all.

The only way to confirm she was not involved from the beginning is the acceptance of my initial offer when I threatened to sue them. I will assume, if I do not hear from the McNeil's, that they were indeed in on this from the start and I will seek a remedy through the courts.

Lastly, I have been devastated financially by the US government. I've never been one to hold my hand out, and I never asked for a single thing from any of the people I helped; but if anyone out there would care to spare a dime or two to help me get back on my feet, I am set up to accept PayPal donations at my email address, estesbrentruss@gmail.com. Please don't give more than a dollar, thank you.

This statement is true and accurate to the best of my knowledge.

Brent Everett Russ