Geneva Institute & Trioid International??

[Paths of the Sea]

Anybody got any details regarding the individuals behind those two groups and what they are up to?

http://www.genevainst.org/money.htm

and

http://www.trioid.com

and

http://www.change.org/petitions/u-s-ins ... cid-agents

Sincerely,
Maury Enthusiast!

[Judge Roy Bean]

Anybody got any details regarding the individuals behind those two groups and what they are up to?

http://www.genevainst.org/money.htm

The guy behind it is one S. Micheal Blumenthal:

http://www.ba-group.com/about.htm

and

http://www.trioid.com

The site has been taken down - I can't determine if it has anything to do with Blumenthal's operation but the company is addressed at a home in Henderson, Nevada and offered the usual litany of clap-trap "registered agent" and "corporation sole" schemes. As far as I can determine, it was run by one "Gary Sing."

and

http://www.change.org/petitions/u-s-ins ... cid-agents

Sincerely,
Maury Enthusiast!

It would make sense that it was taken down if some action had been taken by the IRS.

[GlimDropper]

Judge Roy hit the nail. Call everything a "ministry" and watch your taxes disappear. And you've got to appreciate him starting with a fairly bland pure trust pitch but spicing it up with his land patent scam. Among Mr. Blumenthal's purported areas of expertise is tax planning. Here's an endorsement he once made:

"...one of the best, most readable [books] I have found in my 20 years of studying the IRS and the tax code, rules, regulations and administrative procedures."

Steve Blumenthal, Salinas, California

What author was Steve praising? Pete Hendrickson of course.

But a bit more interesting is why he's no longer licensed to sell insurance or act as a financial advisor or pretty much anything else, he got whacked for helping run a ponzi scheme:

Posted on Sun, Mar. 19, 2006
By VIRGINIA HENNESSEY
Herald Staff Writer

When Wanda and James Stark invested their life savings with church acquaintance Leigh Fiske and Steve Blumenthal, they were told the annuity fund was a sure bet with a 20 percent return, according to court records.

The couple, retired teachers, thought the fund would ensure their retirement security. But after their quarterly payments stopped coming two years later, they learned their life savings were likely gone. And they would have been, were it not for the persistence of Kellie Morgantini, a lawyer with Legal Services for Seniors, who spent five years fighting for a court judgment against the men who took the Starks' money.

Morgantini took the case from Monterey County Superior Court to federal bankruptcy court -- her first foray into federal court -- and then back to Monterey, where she recently won a $665,000 judgment against Blumenthal, Fiske and Michael Egan, the alleged masterminds of what Morgantini described as "a really evil Tupperware or Amway scheme,... a classic Ponzi scheme" in which initial investors were paid off with new investments until the fund ran dry.

And in an earlier story about the same scheme:

Lack of jurisdiction claimed

In another twist to the case, at least a few of the principals appear to be followers of a school of legal thought that contends that the only valid constitutional law is common law. Often acquiring members in seminars by David Lee Miller, the group maintains that federal and state courts have no legal jurisdiction because, for example, they fly gold-fringed "admiralty" flags and spell defendants' names in all-capital letters.

A former Salinas man, Calvin Avila, gained notoriety in 1997 when he used the arguments unsuccessfully to fight felony charges of failing to pay child support.

According to the federal prosecutor, Avila, who is not an attorney but a "constitutional counselor," represented Philanthropic Charities' Egan when Egan was subpoenaed to testify before a federal grand jury in 2002.

And at Egan's extradition hearing after his arrest in South Carolina, the prosecutor said, Egan claimed he was not the same Michael Egan named in the indictment because that person's name was spelled in all-capital letters.

Both Fiske and Blumenthal sign their names with a colon between their first and last names, also a common tenet of the group.

[Paths of the Sea]

Some might see a connection between the topic of this thread and the following article that just posted:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterjreill ... ict-court/

Sincerely,
Maury Enthusiast!