Here's a true story that will make the hair stand up on the back of your neck and show you how powerful the government can be and how it can step out of it's bounds just like with Gary. I may be repeating this but if so it's worth repeating.
A friend who is fish farmer in Michigan got a call from a guy he knew back in the Army and he wanted to know if he was interested in investing in something that would produce a good return. It was some type of synthetic motor oil that was supposed to be revolutionary blah blah blah. The friend invested $800.00.
Turns out it was a scam and my friend got a call and had to answer some questions regarding his role in the scam by an local attorney in Grand Rapids, MI that was handling it for the feds. He was assured he had nothing to worry about and my friend left it at that. After all he was out money too and was not a party in the scam.
However he later got a letter in the mail from the same firm that the feds were using indicating that he was implicated in the scam and owed the government money or he could face jail time.
He once again contacted the firm and they told him if he came up with $8000.00 he would be off the hook. He paid the money and thought it was no longer a problem.
Next thing he knows he is in deep doo doo; they are threatening to take his business, home, vehicles -- everything. He finally contacts an attorney he went to high school with (herintoo he thought he didn't need to due to the reassurances of the firm), and the attorney scolds him as to why he didn't contact him sooner. Anyway he was able to keep his possessions by filing bankruptcy just a couple of hours before the feds were to show up and confiscate everything.
Things finally got rectified, but my friend is not satisfied as he did make a payment for no wrong doing, and wanted his money back, or he was gong to file some kind of paperwork -- that would have assured the firm would not get paid by the feds. (His lawyer had suggested it and it had something to do with if there were any loose ends not tied up they would not get paid.) Of course the friend considered not getting his $8000.00 back a loose end!
One of the firm's lawyer's agreed to meet him at a Big Boy restaurant of all places, and said he would have a check ready for him if he signed off that they had no more unfinished business. When it came time to hand over the check the lawyer wouldn't let go of it! My friend pulled it out of his hand and made a statement something to the effect of, "You do know you and your firm cam close to being blown away right?" The attorney's eyes widened. "Yeah," he said, "I had a pistol ready to go, I had a nice suit that I would get into your law firm with, and I was going to blow all you sleasy MF'ers away. You see you almost took everything I worked all my life for and I would have had nothing left. My wife was also on the verge of a nervous break down.
My friend related this to me a few years ago after the guy in Texas flew his airplane into the IRS building. His point was there is a point where a man can be pushed and he can do a desperate things. Of course we don't know what happened with that guy but it makes you wonder.
Last edited by Cecil Baird1; 08/20/12 09:18 AM.
