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>From: “Automailer – freedomabovefortune.com”

>

>Reply-To: Joseph Banister – FAF

>To: Tony Stelik

>Subject: IRS WHISTLEBLOWER – THREAT TO THE ENVIRONMENT OR ENDANGERED

>SPECIES?

>Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 19:46:12 GMT

>

>IRS WHISTLEBLOWER – THREAT TO THE ENVIRONMENT OR ENDANGERED SPECIES?

>

>Dear Friends and Supporters:

>

>Please accept my apologies for not getting word out to you sooner. It was

>necessary to postpone many other aspects of my personal and day to day work

>life in preparation for the Monday event. Frankly, the preparation for,

>and participation in, the process was also mentally and physically

>exhausting. Please rest assured that although the timing of the news may

>not be predictable, the news itself will astound you. Visit

>www.freedomabovefortune.com and click on IRS LOCKOUT UPDATE for the latest

>documents and information:

>

>Summary:

>

>The proceeding, termed the ?Sanction Phase of The Proceeding? by Judge

>Moran, began as scheduled at 10:00 AM PST on Monday December 1st in an

>available U.S. Tax Court courtroom. As you will recall, Judge Moran had

>originally ordered that the proceeding would take place on Coast Guard

>Island (?CGI?), a secure military installation only accessible by bridge,

>but he reversed himself on the eve of the hearing and announced that the

>proceeding would instead be convened at the San Francisco federal building

>located at 450 Golden Gate Avenue. Incredibly, the IRS was also adamant

>that the proceeding not be public but also reversed its opposition to the

>location change. Not a seat was empty in the courtroom, although I

>recognized up to a dozen plain clothes and uniformed law enforcement

>personnel in the courtroom and hallways, this despite the fact that no one

>was admitted into the building without photo identification, bodily passage

>through a metal detector and personal effect passage through an x-ray

>machine. Even Judge Moran had two bodyguards in close proximity to him at

>all times, bodyguards I believed to be armed Special Agents from the

>Environmental Protection Agency. One agent seated himself directly behind

>my chair. The agent apparently had been instructed to watch me closely,

>since I am most definitely a threat to the environment, the environment of

>cheating and deceit that I have been trying to expose.

>

>Judge Moran explained at the outset of the proceeding that he had already

>resolved all of the issues prior to commencement of the proceeding except

>for the severity of my punishment, one of many Moran decisions that will be

>scrutinized in the very near future (stay tuned). After denying me the

>opportunity to examine the government?s evidence, examine the government?s

>witnesses, present my own evidence, and present my own witnesses, Judge

>Moran ruled that there were no material facts in dispute and that a full

>hearing was unnecessary. In effect, the Monday proceeding was about how

>high to hang me rather than whether or not I should hang.

>

>My attorneys waived an opening statement and IRS Attorney Jay J. Kessler

>gave his opening statement, recapitulating part of the procedural history

>of the case. Interestingly, the procedural history that Mr. Kessler

>recounted made no mention of Judge Moran?s numerous orders excluding

>evidence and witnesses. The IRS attorneys questioned only one witness

>during the sanction phase, David M. Finz, a Senior Attorney in the

>Enforcement Unit of the IRS Office of Professional Responsibility. Mr.

>Finz was first examined by IRS Attorney Bridgette M. Gibson and

>cross-examined by attorney Robert E. Barnes of the Bernhoft Law Firm.

>Gibson then engaged in ?re-direct? examination of witness Finz. During

>Finz?s testimony, Attorney Robert Bernhoft occasionally objected to Finz?s

>answers as ?non-responsive? because of the long-winded answers Finz

>provided that, in Bernhoft?s view, never answered the questions posed to

>him. Bernhoft?s objections were overruled by Judge Moran.

>

>I was then afforded the opportunity to make a statement to the court, which

>I will soon make available on the internet (stay tuned).

>

>Next, each side was given the opportunity to give a closing statement to

>the court. IRS attorney Kessler delivered his closing statement first.

>Kessler?s statement covered a wide variety of ills that I was allegedly

>responsible for, and went so far as to state that I was using my former

>position as an IRS Special Agent to hustle unsuspecting citizens and was

>motivated by greed. Robert Bernhoft then gave his closing statement

>emphasizing, among other points, that the case against me was commenced to

>protect the institutional interests of the IRS rather than the interests of

>the public, that the IRS, my accuser, had a long and well-documented

>history of abusive conduct making it impossible for the agency to wear the

>mantle of champions of the public interest, and that the IRS would like

>nothing better than to chill zealous client advocacy in IRS matters.

>

>Judge Moran then gave a closing statement. Among other things, he stated

>that he would render his decision on my punishment shortly after he

>received and reviewed the transcript of the proceeding, which will probably

>occur in the next few weeks. In a transparent bout of gratuitous

>pandering, and in stark contrast to his previous ruling that the

>proceedings be closed to the public and the press, Judge Moran expressed

>concern that there would not be sufficient publicity regarding his

>impending sanctions decision. He went so far as to suggest that the IRS

>and the Bernhoft Firm work together to ensure that the reasons for his

>decision be adequately publicized.

>

>This case continues to expose the true IRS ? the IRS whose terrible and

>deserved reputation is a matter of public record, not just anecdote. The

>continued IRS attempts to retaliate against me can only serve to expose an

>entire income taxing apparatus that, on the surface, portrays itself as a

>friend of truth and defender of justice, but in reality belies much more

>sinister actions and goals. While individual executive branch officials

>portray themselves as your trusted servants, their sinister agenda

>continues to wreak havoc on the rule of law and principles that form the

>very foundations of our liberty.

>

>My legal team has informed me of a virtual laundry list of government

>misdeeds in this case, some of which I recognized myself and others only

>experienced legal minds can recognize. Nonetheless, the implications are

>so profound that I myself was shocked. Your continued spiritual and

>financial support is enabling me to fight this battle on behalf of every

>American that has ever been railroaded by this out-of-control government.

>I believe that this case will result in profound and positive change for

>all Americans, and I thank you from the bottom of my heart for providing me

>with continued spiritual and economic support to fight this important

>battle.

>

>Don?t miss upcoming email alerts that will show you why, despite the

>short-term euphoria my IRS accusers are basking in their efforts to

>discredit and silence me, we are so enthused about what lies ahead ? and

>don?t forget to spread the word to others!

>

>Kind Regards,

>

>Joseph R. (Joe) Banister, C.P.A.

>Former IRS Criminal Investigation Division Special Agent

>www.freedomabovefortune.com

>