Our stupidity (2003-2005)

2000 to 2004 our stupidity.
In 2000 we were exposed to our own stupidity as the result of the following:
Desperation and Depression   Looking at bills from the specialists the dog bite injury attorney had made her see, the bankruptcy in 1995, the periodic collapse of the leg attributed to the nerve damage, an allegedly estranged brother who promised my girlfriend to pay for credit cards if she got them and the credit card companies who gave a woman with a bankruptcy and had been unemployed for at least five years a total of three cards each with a limit of over $10,000. Still trying to address the past issues and the stress was getting to us, my girlfriend got involved in some scams.
Trapped in Virginia  This was before the recent real estate boom, over the prior decade the value of my property had increased by about twenty thousand, not enough to get my girlfriend out of the trouble that she was in. We were trapped in Virginia, this environment was killing us, neither of us had any family to speak of and having been born here, we were trapped. Like an animal in a trap, we were willing to gnaw our leg off to get out of the corrupt State of Virginia. So we did stupid, got scammed and once we discovered this we realized that we would be crucified again by the authorities.
Sleep Apnea  I kept falling asleep, passing out, for years I thought I was dying, it was discovered that I had a severe case of "Sleep Apnea" in 2006 - they discovered that my blood oxygen levels were below 50%. While I was incarcerated my cell mates complained about my snoring at night and my breathing. Glad that they did not resolve their problem, it would have been funny if I had died in jail, guess that would have been swept under the carpet also. I would fall asleep anywhere, anytime, awaken gasping for air, one time I fell asleep standing in front of a glass case, luckily my head did not go through the glass when I collapsed. I had gained weight, so I expected that my time was limited and something had to be done before I fell asleep driving or something.

Mother had Parkinson's  I was hoping to be able to address her care also, something that the salary I earn would not have covered. She passed away in 2007.
Mr. Jacques LeMere  Allegedly my girlfriends estranged brother was wealthy, he informed his sister that he was going into Federal Witness Protection however he had business associates and assets in Africa, attorney's who would be getting in touch with his sister.

They did and we did and this is how we got scammed - if they were bad and with the illusion of proactive "law enforcement" we would collect information on them, if they were good we would be well off. We would be able if necessary to "buy our law", maybe address our past issues on principle or maybe just go somewhere else, to a safer place.

These scammers are good, their lies are consistent, every day there would be an excuse as to why they failed. What was of interest was "Western Union's" response when I claimed that we had been scammed on their service, they said that they knew about it and did not care to address what we had - two years of e-mail's and transactions. Kind of ironic, we get money and we have Citibank hunting us, we lose money and are dismissed by another American institution, Western Union. Of course there is the fear that if one goes to the authorities one would become their problem.

So did this guy go into Federal witness protection ? It is interesting that the FBI has yet to respond to this fraud or not fraud.

Credit card companies gave my girlfriend a credit line total of over $30,000.

In 2001 after the desertion of Thomas E. Burks my girlfriend got three credit cards at the suggestion of her alleged brother, Mr. Jacques LeMere, who convinced her that he would pay the bills. I warned my girlfriend not to get the damn credit cards but she believed this brother - having been a foster child, denied contact with any of the families by her husband, she was desperate for family contacts. When she got the cards I figured that they would have a limit of around $500 apiece at the most $2000, from which I could have bailed her out of. I based this on her being unemployed, having filed bankruptcy and what work history she had was minimum wage. It was also based on memory of when I attempted to obtain credit cards, I could not get one for more than $500 for about three years and I had been employed.

During this period my girlfriend started to get over her injury, the abuse and losses from the past decade. So the problem was for her to get a job, she used to be a cashier but since the injury her leg would give out on her - preexisting condition.

Apparently the alleged brother did pay - the minimum on the cards allowing the debt to grow for around three years. Then the brother vanished, telling his sister that he was going into the Federal "Witness Protection Program". He also told his sister that he had significant overseas assets that before he left he would make available. His sister was left with debt, no way out and he had vanished giving her instructions that she would be contacted.

The credit card companies started calling me, at this time I discovered that my girlfriend had used my name as reference on the credit cards so they attached the debt to me. I had never agreed to the cards and the companies would not give me the information as to who was paying on them, according to the loan agents that demanded that I pay them to access my equity assets to bail us out. I was told that the only way to get out of these debts would be to charge my girlfriend of fraud. I do not believe that hers was the fraud, it was the brother and the credit card companies that were committing fraud.

My girlfriend had a history of five years unemployment, bankruptcy, mental breakdowns and low wage employment so this justified these companies giving her cards with limits higher than mine?

I could not get the credit card companies to even admit that these cards were my girlfriends, forget about who paid. In order to survive, when I got loans I paid all my girlfriends debts that were attached to me.

However after all that was done one more debt showed up and it has not attached, they just call. When I ask who held the card they do not answer, when I ask for all the payments they do not answer, they just want me to pay for a debt that is not mine.

The Girlfriends Brother - Jacque LeMere

My girlfriend ran into this individual during the 1989-1995 Crusades. She had been so estranged from all her family that I was glad that she was getting support. I had taken her to her foster family where she had confronted her foster father on his rape. I was glad to see that she was reestablishing family contacts. If she was telling me a lie and this was someone who she was having relations with, I figured that she would leave, I was not profitable for a "gold digger" I did not need the grief.

Now I never met this character, the only way I know about him is because the neighbors and friends would come by and ask about the limousine parked in front of my house. In ten years I have never seen this individual and my girlfriend never took pictures of him. Yet someone paid on the credit cards and the neighbors saw someone.

Given that he lied to his alleged sister and suckered us into the world of "scammers", I have to wonder about his motives. Kind of like how the population of this country has been suckered into believing in the integrity of its government - he allegedly had money, foreign contacts and may have needed protection. Ten years is a long scam.

Not a shining moment for us believing that this character had foreign assets/associates. Anything to get out of the predicament that we were in, escape the region or be able to afford to do what the Virginia State Bar recommended, buy legal representation to address the malpractice of their members. If this individual never came into my girlfriends life I would never had gotten involved with the scammers and we would have been looking pretty good right now.


So who is this character ?
  • Actually is Brother
    • Did go into Federal Witness Protection?
    • Did have foreign assets and we could not get them?
    • Did he have associates that had been assassinated and their wives needed help?
  • Random Scammer
    • Had my girlfriend get the cards and he would skim from the top. I never saw the bills as my girlfriend would put them in an envelope and mail them to him.
    • After ten years, realizing that we were not profitable chose to provide the excuse and "bug out".
    • Federal Witness Protection was a lie.
    • Why were we targeted ? Weak, desperate people make easy prey - HOPE kills.....
  • Mr. J. Michael Sharman 1989-1995  who else would have the motive to target us for such period...
    • The brother showed up during this period.
    • The attorney made a claim in the courthouse that they would destroy us.
    • The attorney made a claim in the courthouse that they were not being paid by their client.
    • Abuse of process  was still up in the air and then was mysteriously dropped. I am sure that since my girlfriend confided with this brother, much like she confided with her mental health therapists - she was looking everywhere for advise.
    • Church members showing up at my house.
    • We took a neighbor to court with us one day and they disappeared for a while. When they returned they were smiling, followed by the husband's attorney, we then had problems with them, vandalism and harassment.
    • Who would have the motivation to execute a ten year offensive with little profit, a religious group that deemed we should be punished ?
    • In July 2009 we saw The Rachel Maddow Show: Christian Conservatism's Shadowy Secret Society and this all came back to me. If this "Jacque" was not my girlfriends estranged half brother who would have the resource or the motivation to have someone show up periodically over the years. Was there a relationship or a parallel between this C Street, The Family and the Christian Brotherhood, the husband's attorney Mr. J. Michael Sharman that had stated that they were going to destroy us? What did Ms. Judy Dugger discover that had her give us instructions for an abuse of process action and then drop us?

Who knows, we have had enough drama.....

What I do know is that I will never find out who this individual is that caused us all this trouble. Law enforcement is too stupid or negligent, which I find curious given their claimed mission statements.

The Authorities response to Scammers

When we discovered that we had been scammed we contacted Western Union, the hope was that they would be interested in catching those that were using its service to commit illegal acts. At the time we were in active contact with the scammers. Western Union had no interest in catching them - I found this interesting since this was after 911.

Another point was that while we were being scammed I had my girlfriend contact the U.S. Embassies to confirm the scammers were working out of the African embassies. We had confirmation from the State Department, notaries (probably faked), apparent use of bank managers and apparent official ties to African government. Further confirmation of official capacity came in London where my girlfriend was taken to a building that had offices of African countries in it, designated with their flags - she believed that it was the African embassy or consulate. These scammers use the United States governmental bureaucracy to prey on its citizens, they fit the responses and procedures into their racket.

After the Citibank/Multiver, which we suspected of being a money laundering or insurance scam. Reluctantly we contacted the authorities, the FBI. Given that the Africans were still calling/emailing we had an active contact to catch some some bad guys. I figured that between the "eaves dropping" technologies and us being an active target of scammers there would be a "professional" interest in stopping these African scammers.

There was no response to the attempts at contacting the authorities. This reminds us of when we contacted the police about the stalking, assaults, vandalism and break in of our house. The authorities did not respond to the scammer issue just as the police did not address the aggression against us.

With the Citibank/Multiver scam my girlfriend received money and was pounced on. Citibank "involved" itself in the scam, abstracted the alleged "crime" and made my girlfriend in debt to them - so much for facing an accuser. There was also the little detail of receiving the summons the day before the court date indicated on the summons - this caused my girlfriends breakdown. Another little detail was that she was tried In absentia.

It all goes back to the authorities mission, is it to catch the predators or to prey on the weak ?


My girlfriend survived a mother that tried to kill her, orphanages, foster homes, seventeen years of spousal abuse and when she tries to extract herself she gets crusading, deserting, unengaged attorneys and "law enforcement" that are dismissive of aggressions against her, yet eagerly persecuted her for her mistakes. My girlfriend represents desperate, easy prey that would fill the check box of catching the "bad guy" with minimal risk.

So just what is the mission of these authorities ?

Additional perspective on the authorities was provided by a conversation in the early 90's with a neighbor who had a felony record. I was amazed because he spent only a week in jail for cutting four of someone's van's tires and chasing a cop with a knife. He laughed, said sell some weed, buy a crooked attorney and be free. Obviously this was a tactic that was down pat, it identified that those familiar with the system can and do play it. For context I spent more time in jail for the CVS incident, which was my first offense.

Another point of interest was provided later on when this felon called up and threatened to kill me, starting the period of vandalism. We suspect that his girlfriend was vandalizing our home. We had called social services for the woman's child a couple of times and her stealing medication from Annaburg Manor Nursing Home upset us.

  • What about the "Drug War" ? I was scratching my head over this.....
  • Why am I paying taxes for these people to fail to address problems that I could have with a preemptive strike on a dark night. Such an action would be following the example provided by President Bush and his "Doctrine" whose example demonstrates that violence is an acceptable solution to some problems. This was before the Bush Doctrine, in the 90's, back then I tried to believe in "Rule of Law".
Escape from Virginia

It is a shame that these attempts did not work out, we could have escaped from Virginia and possibly "done the right thing based on principle" and made these individuals accountable for their actions, by "buying" the law. We may have acted on principle or done the Christian thing and let God judge the individuals that we had come up against. Whatever the results are a police state or collapse of the society, karma. Why fight a system that the majority believes is functional and correct, much like the majority voted in the current administration twice so it is the will of the people. I keep claiming that it is an implementation problem, not a problem with the system.

If these things had worked out my girlfriend was going to set up a "functional" womans shelter, without ties to "special interests" or bowing to the demand for information. Such as the courts demanding that we release our street address. When we had a "promissory note" we looked at a farm for such a place, glad we did not become committed in this initiative.

No solution from the authorities...

Because of our "mistakes" we found ourselves looking for a solution and there is no solution to be found from the Courts or their minions. The authorities are not a solution to get out of trouble, their only goal is punishment by any manner.

In fact the game is rigged against an individual, after being taken by these individuals, we were attacked again by a corporation that we suspect was money laundering, course the authorities side with the corporation. Yeah I know desperation, stupidity and really not liking the type of country we found ourselves in.

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