And now, part two.
When we left Ms. Anzaldi, she, along with her alleged co-conspirators, had just gone on trial. This went off without anything else going into the docket, so I've got no idea whether she sat there quietly, or kept jumping up to scream, "Objection!" or what. At any rate, trial ran from the 3rd to the 10th of June, and concluded in a guilty verdict on all charges. Ms. Anzaldi almost immediately appealed (
Doc. #140):
Notice of Appeal
- 4th Amendment violation regarding "Nature & Cause" Real Party in interest (Rule 17a)
- 4th Amendment Violation-no verified complaint according to your own records on PACER 11/23/2011.
- 4th Amendment Violation-No affidavit of fact signed under "penalty of perjury" by the Real Party in interest.
- 5th Amendment Violation-No Grand Jury held prior to an arrest, and indictment.
- 5th Amendment Violation-No Grand Jury Foreman signed the True Bill
- 5th Amendment Violation-No Grand Jury Foreman read the decision on the open floor
- 5th Amendment Violation-No "Certificate of Concurrence"
- 6th Amendment Violation-was not allowed to cross-examine the "Real Party in Interest" (prosecution) posing as the injured party.
- 8th Amendment-Malicious prosecution by Assistant District Attorney-Rachel M. Cannon by witholding [sic] exculpatory evidence in my favor.
A. Corrected 1040X in the amount of four million +/- in year 2009.
B. Power of Attorney-Michael Graf, Jr. - CPA that usurped my POA for years 2006-2013 w/o my knowledge or consent
C. Communication from the I.R.S. stating my returns filed for years 2006-2009 had been corrected and zeroed out due to amended filings.
- 11th Amendment Violation - "Under Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act" by use of fictitious name - corporation AKA SHARON ANZALDI.
- Prosecutorial misconduct for witholding the Courts true jurisdiction (admiralty law) and limited authority, as all cases are commercial and civil in nature according to Title 27-72.11.
The appeal was duly docketed and processed. And then things got a little hard for Ms. Anzaldi's standby counsel.
The day the appeal was filed, the 7th Circuit came back with an order to show cause why the appeal shouldn't be dismissed as premature. Nothing forthcoming, the court then issued an Order to Show Cause against Michael Nash, Ms. Anzaldi's standby counsel, threatening sanctions for ignoring the court's request. Mr. Nash reacted promptly, explaining, in effect, that he's not actually sure what his role would be in the appeal. That was good enough for the court, which then redirected its request to Ms. Anzaldi personally. A few days later, she saw the light, and asked to dismiss the appeal as premature, which the appellate court was only too willing to do.
Meanwhile, Ms. Anzaldi continued to press her case in the district court. In moving for a new trial (
Doc. #147), she first copied and pasted several documents together, and then claimed that the jury couldn't possibly have understood the finer points of her defense: that the 1099-OID scheme is perfectly legal, as there is no money, but only tax credits. And besides, she continued, the fact that they reached a guilty verdict within an hour of having the case only proves that they must have prejudged it. Furthermore, she claimed that the prosecution failed to present exculpatory evidence to the jury, and also committed a fraud upon the court by saying Anzaldi filed a Form 1040 claiming a refund of $4M, when in fact she had corrected it by filing a zeroed-out 1040X. And, compounding matters, the prosecution presented a Form 1040 claiming a refund of $716,125, which she had never filed; in fact, she says, she filed it on a Form
1041, thus proving that the prosecution fabricated evidence. Finally, she states that the court's refusal to convene a Grand Jury Hearing violated her rights and voids the whole case.
To put it directly, the court was not impressed (
Doc. #180).
Having failed there, Ms. Anzaldi now switches tactics. Actually, that's not true. She continues to press her claim that her conviction was secured by fraud, first in her "VOID ORDER ab initio: FOR LACK OF SUBJECT MATTER JURISDICTION, VENUE, AND PERSONAL JURISDICTION…" (
Doc. #170). Her opening paragraph:
According to rights protected by the Constitution, and in violation of "due process of law", " fraud upon the court", cruel and unusual punishment", "malicious prosecution", loss of nationality, frauds and swindles laws, by indicting natural people, a criminal conduct by using fictitious names falls under Title 18 U.S.C. 1842 (Fictitious Names, and violation of the" Administrative Procedure Act of 1946" Act (APA), enacted June 11, 1946.
It doesn't get much better, further on:
A Judgement or order is void where the Rules of Circuit Court are not complied with. Elliot V. Piersol, 1 Pet. 328, 340, 26 U.S. 328, 340 (1828). Under Federal law which is applicable to all states, the U.S. Supreme Court that is a court is "without authority, its judgements and orders are regarded as nullities…. (170 at 3)
A Judgement or order is void where the prosecutor and court continue to move against a natural born citizen, especially without representation, while from the inception of the case, violated the 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th, and 11th. Constitutional Amendments under "color of law"….(170 at 3)
The U.S. Supreme Court has held that when a judge acts without jurisdiction, the judge has engaged in treason. U.S. v. Will, 449 U.S. 200, 216, 101 S.Ct. 471, 66 L.Ed.2d 392, 406 (1980); Cohens v. Virginia, 19 U.S. (6 Wheat) 264, 404, 5 L.Ed 257 (1821)…. (170 at 5)
The Court continued to violate rights under the Administrative Procedure Act. As the Court is in receipt of a 28 Page Affidavit of Truth, Fact, Law and Points of Authority, as Document Number 1323154018 dated August 19th. 2013, filed in the Cook County Recorder's Office, and received by your office on August 21st, 2013. Your Office, and Administrative duty to respond accordingly, point for point has not been received. Consequently, all facts presented stand as truth, and you are now in Dishonor/Default, and properly noticed as of August 19th, 2013, August 31, 2013 and September 11, 2013. RE [registered mail numbers omitted], mailed […] at United States Post Office, postage pre paid stamps. […]
I, Sharon Alicia Burke Anzaldi aver, to the best of my knowledge and understanding, believe the information provided within this Void Order are true, correct, and not meant to be misleading so help me God.
Without Prejudice All rights reserved
/s/
She also filed her "Notice of Fault and Opportunity to Cure" (
Doc. #171). This is actually a collection of very short documents, each addressed to one of her opponents in the case, all in substantially the following form:
Notice to Agent is Notice to Principal Notice to Principal is Notice to Agent
[…]
1. On or about (date), Respondent received an Affidavit (number), from the Affiant for Respondent's attention.
2. As of the (date), Respondent has not responded to the above stated Affidavit: (name), Respondent is at fault in this matter.
3. As an operation of law, according to "Adminstration Procedures Act," (name) by dishonor of Affidavit has created a fault.
In the event that Respondent's failure to respond to the Affidavit (number) was an oversight, mistake or otherwise unintentional, Sharon Alicia Burke Anzaldi (Affiant) grant (name) (Respondent) three (3) days, exclusive of the day of receipt, to cure the fault. Failure to cure will constitute, as an operation of law. Respondent's final admission and agreement to all statements and claims made by Affiant through tacit procuration pertaining to Affidavit, (number), and the whole matter shall be deemed res judicata and stare decisis. Response by Respondent must be served on Affiant exactly as provided below/overleaf and using Certified or traceable mail service.
Sharon Alicia Burke Anzaldi (Affiant) awaits (name)'s timely response.
"I, a natural born woman commonly known as Sharon Anzadi (Affiant), on my own unlimited commercial liability, certify that I have read the above and know that the facts contained are true, correct and complete, and not misleading, the truth the whole truth and noting [sic] but the truth."
Lest this become oppressive, let me divert briefly into a matter of philately. The tail end of this document contains (as do many of Ms. Anzaldi's filings) a copy of her postal receipt from the Elmwood Park, Illinois, branch of the Postal Service. In this case, among other things, it shows the purchase, for each of these "Notices," of fifteen $1 postage stamps, in payment on $14.87 in postage for each letter.
Now, many of you have probably had occasion to send mail through the local Post Office and pay the postage over the counter. Most just print a little customized stamp for the exact postage due, and put it on. Not Ms. Anzaldi. She apparently felt that it was essential to purchase and apply fifteen one-dollar stamps to each of these missives before depositing them into the mail. I know there has, in the past, been a bit of an obsession with the powers of postage stamps in some branches of the sovrun myth. Presumably this is another expression of the same theme, though what it all means is still a mystery to me. A small detail, surely, but intriguing, and it wouldn't have come to light without her including the postal receipts in the docket.
Anyway: she then filed her "Certificate of Non Performance" (
Doc. #172), which is really just the sequel to the above, so I won't quote extensively from it, though this one was also recorded in Cook County (document 1325454024).
And then there is her "Affidavit of Truth, Fact, Law, and Points of Authority" that goes with all of this (maybe) (
Doc. #173). This is…truth be told, I'm not really sure what it is, except that every paragraph seems to start with, "Affiant, Sharon Alicia Burke-Anzaldi aver…," and ends with, "…and I do not believe there is any evidence to the contrary." It's basically her narrative of events, and repeats her grievances against the indictment and trial: Constitutional rights violated, caps vs. mixed case names, defendants aren't corporations, all crime is commercial, trustees of birth certificates, and so on and so forth. It's in color. It has a lot of italicized text, too. We get a retelling of the story of how the IRS is actually a private corporation. From page 24, it looks like Ms. Anzaldi is an adherent to (or follower of, anyway) the RuSA group.
And then there are the attachments. Ms. Anzaldi attached her original notice of appeal (the one which, by this point, she'd already dismissed), and the certificate of incorporation for "Internal Revenue Tax and Audit Service, Inc." She also attaches her "Act of State, Reaffirmation of Character, and Renunciation of Attempted Expatriations." This is a flyspeck document; it's a little like reading a Dr. Bronner's bottle, only not so coherent. (Curiously, this document, which she evidently claims has terminated the jurisdiction of the United States over her, states that she lives in Illinois, but it was executed in Minnesota by Robert S. McMinn, Jr., according to the apostille.) Do not miss her seal, which, by a fault in the scanner, comes through very crisply on page 39 of the scan, even as the rest of the page is completely washed out. There's also a copy of Pope Francis's Apostolic Letter on the jurisdiction of Vatican State in certain criminal matters, which isn't really explained otherwise.
The AUSA answered (
Doc. #184), describing all of this as "a series of non-sensical and frivolous claims." And then she got mean. She suggested that the offense level for sentencing ought to be enhanced for Ms. Anzaldi's being the leader of a criminal activity, something that (somehow) got missed on the pre-sentencing investigation. This resulted in a Guidelines range of 97-121 months' imprisonment, with the AUSA arguing for the top of that range. The AUSA also detailed some of the wreckage which Ms. Anzaldi left behind: Mr. Noesen (whom, you will remember, not only paid $31,000 for Ms. Anzaldi's advice, but also allegedly got his credit card abused by her) has had to leave retirement in order to work off the penalties and interest drawn by the returns which she prepared for him. The AUSA also presented that Ms. Anzaldi perpetrated multiple mortgage frauds over several years, ultimately stacking loans on a house on South King Drive in Chicago until she had a loan for $850,000 on it.
This is also where the AUSA details the frivolous lawsuits which Ms. Anzaldi had filed. There were two: 12 CV 2987, and 13 CV 3198. These were described by district judge Shadur as "baseless 'canards'," according to the reply, and were referred to the attention of the judge in this case with a recommendation that they be considered in aggravation at Ms. Anzaldi's sentencing. (Judge Shadur also drew the Cherron Phillips case, for a while, and referred to some of Ms. Phillips's filings there as "clotted nonsense." I rather like Judge Shadur.) Ms. Anzaldi evidently also filed a notice against AUSA Cannon's property records, among others.
Finally, Ms. Anzaldi had written a letter to former US Attorney Gary Shapiro, saying in part:
I choose not to take this to a higher level, out of consideration for you, and your career, however, based on the aggression of the DOJ, this information has been safely placed in the hands of many people around the country that are watching this case very closely, as the truth always has a way of revealing itself. I will not move forward unless you choose to bring additional harm toward any of us.
The AUSA argued that threats like these should be considered as further aggravating factors.
It was about this time that Ms. Anzaldi realized that neither her garden-variety sovrun tactics, nor the (perhaps) more RuSA-specific ones, were working. A mere mortal might, at this point, quit. A mere mortal might throw herself on the mercy of the court, claiming, perhaps, to have followed one guru too many, to be merely another broken soul searching for meaning in a chaotic world, and to have had no idea how much damage her antics really caused. Ms. Anzaldi, however, is no mere mortal: she is, according to her "Ordinance of Estates" (
Doc. #207), an Estate Dignitary Member:
There appears to be a mistaken identity, wherein the Estates known as Sharon Alicia Burke Anzaldi, as the united states in rem, et al., have been administered by your agency without lawful authority, wherein your Corporation, via commission, has been granted letter of marque, a business license unlawfully authorizing you to be a privateer.
This document, best as I could trace it, gets credited to Tami Pepperman, who has a series of
videos on YouTube. It's also credited as making it possible to drive without a driver's license, such as by something called the
"Bo & Rocko Show." (This links to a 98 minute YouTube video, which I haven't watched, if I'm honest; just going off the descriptions, here.) What, precisely, it has to do with this case, is not entirely clear. Something to do with her arrest, probably.
This was followed by the "Notice of Absolute Forgiveness and Discharge Forever of All Known and Unknown Estate Debts, Duties, Claims, and Liabilities," (
Doc. #208), which is grand enough that it deserves to be read into the record at length:
Let it now be known and evident to all concerned persons or men worldwide through the announcement and notice of this perfect free will writing sealed by my own hand - in an offer to bring peace, harmony, and wholeness to all of the world - that I, the living soul manifest, known as Man, Estate Hæres, and Dignitary, who acknowledges all that is the complete Will and Testament of the Estate named, or known as, Sharon Alicia Anzaldi - created, birthed, or delivered on [date redacted], through the hand or water of my natural born mother or her person - NOW AND FOREVER ABSOLUTELY FORGIVE AND DISCHARGE ALL KNOWN AND UNKNOWN ESTATE DEBTS, DUTIES, CLAIMS, AND LIABILITIES.
…
Additionally, through this Absolute Forgiveness and Discharge, all Estate res, remainder, or reversion, including, but not limited to, any subject, matter, issue, person,[…], is hereby consolidated, merged, and extinguished - ultimately returning said Estate to its complete original natural whole state of dignity and demesne for… I AM.
Witness quorum [signed "Linda Ann," "Diane," "Patricia Eileen," and "Mary Jane"]
I, a living soul manifest, now bear witness with my own eyes and attest through my own hand this notice and free will writing by Sharon Alicia on this 20th Day of December in the Year Two Thousand Thirteen.
/s/
Sharon Alicia - House of Anzaldi
Estate Dignitary - Member-Society of the Sojourner
And, yet again, recorded in Cook County (Doc. 1400354024).
And then there was the "Notice of Appointment to the Office of Executor (
Doc. #209), which is relatively unremarkable, except that it announces: "Let it also be known to all concerned persons worldwide, through this EVIDENCE and notice that the embossed seal created exclusively for the House of Anzaldi - emanating from the Office of Executor - will be considered as the ONLY valid authorization for any and all commercial or legal action(s) regarding said Estate." It's not clear whether this is the same seal which we saw on Doc #173 above. It doesn't come through on this document.
The typeface and formatting of these three documents speaks to them coming as a set, and indeed, that is how they are presented (
here, for example—scroll all the way down—which also apparently contains a lengthy primer on basic sovrun theory).
Whatever kind of peace and harmony that Ms. Anzaldi meant to spread with these documents, it didn't quite carry through to her next filing, titled "Notice and Demand for Bonding Information" (
Doc. #210). About half of this is old stuff (Constitutional rights violations, the IRS is a private corporation, I'm not the same as my all-caps alter ego, the grand jury was a lie), but there are a couple of new items. NESARA makes a special guest appearance (p. 3). There's a claim that Congress repealed the "New Competitive Currency Act," making Federal Reserve notes no longer legal tender. There's also an interesting news bulletin in the middle of the thing: Ms. Anzaldi announces that, when she arrives for sentencing, she won't be carrying any Federal or State ID, but will bring her International Diplomatic Driver Permit, and her Universal Post Office Diplomatic Status. The rest of the document is pretty much just reruns, though you get a fair impression of her new "House of Anzaldi" seal on page 22. It's not the same as the previous one. Also more postal receipts (she opted for the $12 collectible "Inverted Jenny" stamps this time).
On January 8, 2014, Sharon Anzaldi was sentenced on 11 counts of fraud to 63 months in prison, starting February 25, with three years of supervised release to follow, and restitution of a little over $851,000 to the IRS. (This is about half of the prison time that the Government had recommended, and below the Guidelines which they had calculated.) The court recommended placement at the prison camp in Greenville, Illinois. Standby counsel (yes, the same one who had some explaining to do to the appeals court earlier) duly filed her "Notice of Appeal" the next day.
The day of her sentencing, Ms. Anzaldi filed what will likely be the last thing we'll hear from her in this case (though her appeal might be a different matter). She wrote two letters: one to the court clerk and the US Attorneys, rescinding her earlier demand for bonding information. The other (
Doc. #217) was to Judge Leinenweber, thanking him for his attention to detail in her sentencing:
Dear Judge Leinenweber,
I don't even know how to express my appreciation for the honorable decisions rendered at today's sentencing.
I was pretty amazed by your attention to detail, and total recall regarding the case.
It is apparent, you have rightly earned your position, and made me realize, perhaps there is some justice within the court system.
Again, I thank you!!
Sincerely,
/s/
Sharon Alicia Anzaldi
As gracious as this sounds, there is one more detail to consider before closing this discussion, a subtle one. Kind of like a finger coming up from the grave at the end of a bad horror flick. The court clerk's office, as is common, scanned the envelope in which this missive was delivered to the Judge's office, and so we can see the postmark, and under that, the cancelled stamp which paid for its delivery. It's a common enough stamp, and unremarkable in itself, except for Ms. Anzaldi's adventures in philately which accompanied her previous filings:
A single flag stamp, emblazoned with the words, "Freedom Forever."
