Winston Shrout Charged

http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-no...arges_hil.html
http://media.oregonlive.com/pacific-...indictment.pdf

A federal grand jury has returned a new indictment against Hillsboro resident Winston Shrout, accusing him of defrauding U.S. financial institutions by issuing bogus documents and failing to file six years of income tax returns.

The grand jury returned an indictment charging Shrout with 13 counts of making, presenting and transmitting fictitious financial instruments and six counts of willfully failing to file income tax returns.

He's accused of making and issuing more than 300 fake "International Bills of Exchange'' on his own behalf and for credit to third parties. The government contends Shrout falsely claimed the bills had value and purported them to be worth more than $100 trillion.

The indictment also alleges Shrout promoted and marketed the fake financial documents to pay off debts.

He's also accused of failing to file income tax returns from 2009 through 2014 after receiving income for presentations at seminars and licensing fees for the sale of DVD recordings and private client consultations through his business Winston Shrout Solutions in Commerce.

By 2014, Shrout received gross income of more than $21,500, according to the indictment.

"Winston Shrout is one of the biggest sovereign citizen gurus of the last decade. This is a big deal, '' said Mark Pitcavage, senior research fellow with Anti-Defamation League center on extremism, in Ohio.

Anti-government sovereign citizens claim that paper money is unconstitutional, with gold and silver the only lawful forms of currency, so they find it easy to rationalize creating their own forms of paper money, according to the Anti-Defamation League.

"This is a very longstanding tactic in the sovereign citizen movement,'' Pitcavage said. "They love to use bogus financial instruments. Some use bogus checks. Some look like money orders. They use these to pay off the IRS or other debtors.''

Shrout was previously indicted in December on charges of failure to file tax returns. On that indictment, he told the court in February that he didn't want to be represented by a court-appointed attorney, and a judge allowed him to represent himself but named an assistant federal public defender to advise him. The court entered a not guilty plea on his behalf, according to court records.

Shrout is scheduled to return to court on this new indictment March 31.

If convicted, Shrout faces a maximum sentence of 25 years in prison on each count of making, presenting and transmitting fake financial documents and one year for each count of failure to file income tax returns.

Acting Assistant Attorney General Carolline D. Ciraolo of the U.S. Justice Department's Tax Division announced the new indictment in a prepared release Wednesday.

-- Maxine Bernstein

Can this be found on PACER yet?

Before March, 2016 a 'bird' put it in my ears that they were going after him for not filing. I was unaware of the other prospective charges. Of what I've seen of his videos, a lot of what he discusses is sound as far as legal/law matters go. However, many times I got get the impression that he hadn't quite fully developed his grasp in certain areas.

As for the IBOEs and such, I'm not sure what he was doing or why he was doing it. I've tended to express caution to those aiming to mess around with IBOEs and the like to avoid such things unless they really know what they are doing.

With bills of exchange, AFAIK, one has to have something to draw on. Issuing a BOE drawn on the Treasury generally might not be a good idea unless you're the Treasurer of the United States or something like that.

Anyways, if money knowledge is so important to people, I just don't get why they wont study books on bills of exchange and promissory notes. In doing so they would easily be able to determine what is or isn't missing in the scheme of things.

Also, maybe I missed any "anti-government" rants of Winston SHROUT but he never quite came off as "anti-government" to me. Although, he did seem at times to 'straddle' the fence a bit too precariously. Ex-military but not a U.S. citizen, but having an SSN? In any case, one might have figured he'd have had his bases covered in a good way. Maybe he does.

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This might be related:

Sean and Melissa Morton Arrested.

And this:

Sail (Far) Away: At Sea with America's Largest Floating Gathering of Conspiracy Theorists

Attachment 3734
Sean David Morton, acting as master of ceremonies during the closing panel at the Conspira Sea.

Attachment 3733
Sean David Morton, left, talking to Winston Shrout.

Mostly for efficiency of my time, if any guru fails to present the Fed Act or saving to suitors' clause for his foundation I likely never get through two minutes or the first two paragraphs. Suitors, members and strangers have been presenting SHROUT to me for examination for a long time and I don't know anything about him. Even now, I would take a look at the initial complaint on the indictment and seek to know a Case # so I can read up on it on PACER.

These liens for $trillions are nonsensical. And like you say, there must be a fund or treasury to draw upon:

Attachment 3735

This clause at the end of the state constitution ties the office and activities to the Comptroller of the State Treasury - a security agreement with officers.

Attachment 3736

I published the bill and the past due notice at the county clerk and recorder prior to filing into the case.

Attachment 3737

After publishing the Notice of Lien in the national newspapers of BRICS nations now Mayor (508) of Colorado Springs John William SUTHERS dissolved the STATE OF COLORADO CAPITAL FINANCE CORPORATION to avoid having to settle. I imagine this a perfect example of "straddling" between public and private.

Attachment 3738

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Originally Posted by David Merrill

At a glance it looks like SHROUT has earned some detectable income from his lecturing and writings. I think that private credit may be what is condemning him to prison. But I will have to wait for first hand source material from PACER to really comment.

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From what he says he knows, I am convinced that at the very least he could have easily paid the tax. Also: 1 - The IRS accounts are with the IRS and 2 - Social Security Accounts are with the Social Security Administration rather than with the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Yes much processing goes on in the Department of the Treasury but the account homes are important for the processing to be done properly.

Re: Winston Shrout's Trillion Dollar 'Fictitious Obligations'
Like I mentioned, it seemed he failed to grasp quite a few key things. From the indicting document, he allegedly drew paper alleging to be drawn under the authority of the United States. Used to be the DOJ would include specimens in the complaints, these were often informative for edifying folks so they will stop doing things that would get them in trouble.

The arrest of the Morton couple seems too much of a coincidence to actually be a coincidence. I'm reminded of someone I know who doesn't believe in coincidences.

Re: 2011.
All of the bills mentioned in the indictment are from 2011 and after. Dodd-Frank connection?

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Originally Posted by Michael Joseph

All of the folks that tried to talk me into creating 300 Billion bonds all went to jail. Every single one. And those who tried to so something called Accepted for Value with the IRS are now all sitting in jail.

This so called "secured party creditor" stuff never made any sense to me and I deem it as trying to "tap the stock" of a corporation. That is stealing and I deem it not a good idea.

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If a monetary bond is neither A - underwritten with something of value nor B - presented through the appropriate channels nor C - payable through the appropriate channels, it is possible that the issuer or deliverer thereof might experience some inconveniences. Being a secured party creditor probably didn't make sense to them either.

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Originally Posted by Michael Joseph

Remedy is written into the Code - it goes against God's Law and man's law to steal and to be lazy. For the Scriptures declare "go to the ant thou sluggard."

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Is it necessarily being a 'sluggard' for one to expect to be treated equitably while others are tremendously profit and gain from use of one's vineyard?

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Originally Posted by allodial

The bonds have to be underwritten with something of value.

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I feel that the value of "paper gold" - SDR's (Special Drawing Rights) is the assurance people will continue being deluded that debt has value.

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Originally Posted by David Merrill

I feel that the value of "paper gold" - SDR's (Special Drawing Rights) is the assurance people will continue being deluded that debt has value.

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I wonder if SDRs (with or without conversion to the local currency) are one way or another good for paying taxes in all IMF countries....

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Originally Posted by David Merrill

Mostly for efficiency of my time, if any guru fails to present the Fed Act or saving to suitors' clause for his foundation

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Fed Act and Saving to Suitors Clause point to diversity of citizenship, lawful money vs. legal tender, extraterritoriality, etc.

This might be the pertinent type of "IBOE":

Attachment 3745

Key problems:

1. Its drawn generally on "Secretary of the Treasury or other authorized representative of the United States"
2. Lots of superfluous and unnecessary verbiage
3. It holds itself out to be an obligation of the United States at least twice
4. The bottom part betrays that the issuer is either completely clueless about bills of exchange
5. It holds itself out as legal tender.
6. The document betrays that the issuer hasn't so much as seen the spine of a book on bills of exchange or promissory notes.
7. It makes the Secretary of the U.S. Treasury and the U.S. Secretary of Transporation to be the issuers AND the drawees.
8. He has no idea who the drawer and drawee is or should be.

Attachment 3746
Another specimen that allegedly got someone in trouble for fraud.

P.S. That same WOZNY person, obviously well meaning, allegedly sent such an item to Greece to help them with their financial crisis.

KEY POINT IS THAT ANYONE WHO STUDIES THE FUNDAMENTALS OF BILLS OF EXCHANGE AND PROMISSORY NOTES SHOULD EASILY BE ABLE TO DISCERN THAT SUCH IBOE DOCUMENTS ARE FLAWED AND CONFUSEDLY DRAFTED--THEY DON'T MAKE SENSE.

I have to agree. The thing that always fails, in my opinion is that assertion debt has value. Everybody else thinks it does, and so that is supposed to maintain the delirium.

Maybe one of the first illusions pierced is like Michael Joseph called on as bullshit from the cartoon about money. The illusion debt has value is why it is so easy to misstate it that money is conjured out of thin air. It is backed by a naked contract (endorsement) and the security is slave-like substance. So the illusion might best be that America is a free nation? That leads to the Bretton Woods proposal of yours Allodial.

I have been saying it for some time: SDR's are a nation's measure of conditioning, how the society blindly endorses private credit from the local central bank.

Upon my $20M shared in process here, a new basket quickly emerged and I just as quickly notified these nations about the $20M lien. SUTHERS dissolved the STATE OF COLORADO CAPITAL FINANCE CORPORATION.


Attachment 3747

Attachment 3748


Attachment 3749

P.S. Allodial,


I would like to view some of the BoE examples in evidence. I am not sure that grand jury indictments become available for public viewing. I doubt that so not to influence a trial. But when it comes to a complaint in federal court maybe I can find it on PACER?

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Originally Posted by Michael Joseph

All of the folks that tried to talk me into creating 300 Billion bonds all went to jail. Every single one. And those who tried to do something called Accepted for Value with the IRS are now all sitting in jail.

This so called "secured party creditor" stuff never made any sense to me and I deem it as trying to "tap the stock" of a corporation. That is stealing and I deem it not a good idea.

Remedy is written into the Code - it goes against God's Law and man's law to steal and to be lazy. For the Scriptures declare "go to the ant thou sluggard."

With best regards,
MJ

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I think that you are right. Remedy is written into the Code. I am getting a good demonstration of how the Code is not limited to the US too; maybe all Bretton Woods countries...

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Originally Posted by David Merrill

I think that you are right. Remedy is written into the Code. I am getting a good demonstration of how the Code is not limited to the US too; maybe all Bretton Woods countries...

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No amount of codes developed by man can release one from Divine Law. The debtor is slave to the lender.

Thanks - that is always a good reminder to stay out of debt. The Grace of God is about Redemption in my opinion - not sacrifice.

I have pruned the thread. I was taking advantage of the Topic Title as evidence repository. SHROUT is likely getting a lot of hits on the search engines this week. My packages have been delivered. Interestingly I was so convinced that there would be interference with my process, now I feel that I projected it into creation:


Attachment 3759

Attachment 3760

Negotiable and Non-Negotiable Instruments". A corporation cannot arrest it's members, but it can "Make Offers" to the "public". The opposite of an "Offer is an "Acceptance". When you don't "Accept", you are in "Dishonour". You cannot pay a debt with a debt and all of the money, credits, Bank notes, checks, money orders etc. are ALL debt instruments, since they are all borrowed into circulation. If you don't understand this part, then ask yourself this question : "Did you create that money?" ? If the answer is no, then IT IS DEBT, TO YOU. The only way we can pay is (WE CAN'T)...but we can make an engagement to pay by "Acceptance for Value". Then they have to adjust our account, because there is our remedy, since they took away our ability to pay with real substance.lawful money The Emergency Banking Act (1934) and HJR 192 and other actions set up a fixed
"dollar for dollar" exchange rate allowing the perpetrators operating the "Federal
Reserve System" to exchange their Promissory Notes known as "Federal Reserve
Notes" for our United States Dollars defined as one ounce of fine silver.
They traded their paper promises for our actual silver and gold, and when it was time
for them to make good on their Notes, they declared bankruptcy and named us as
their sureties--- that is, they pretended to "represent" us and said we were
responsible for their debts after they siphoned off the entire value of our National
Credit, which by definition is equal in value to their National Debt. When the state or federal government is making us offers, i.e. warrants, indictments, fines, tickets etc., they are making us "Offers" and we are "Dishonoring" them. BECAUSE we are not "Accepting" them. When we "Accept" them, and we ask them to "adjust our account", they now have the obligation of "settlement". If they refuse, then they are in a position of "dishonor" now, and they are stepping out of their bounds as our Trustees in Bankruptcy. Now they are the ones with a Tax obligation on their hands because they have everything "ACCOUNTED FOR" in their system. "Accepting" how is "Dishonoring"a fictional offer or debt When you don't "Accept", you are in "Dishonour" only if your a person Can a Man be a DEBT . Might ask who can dishonour a TRUST accountability for lawful money is a demand on the Non-Negotiable Instruments a Man is non Negotiable until re venued. Been here before acceptability is Non-Negotiable.

I have some PACER information. You can bring in more information if you sign up for PACER. I find it sad that Winston could have avoided this headache by applying remedy, by demanding lawful money.

Since I find enjoyable things much more enjoyable, I may not be spending a lot of time on this.

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Originally Posted by xparte

Negotiable and Non-Negotiable Instruments". A corporation cannot arrest it's members, but it can "Make Offers" to the "public". The opposite of an "Offer is an "Acceptance". When you don't "Accept", you are in "Dishonour". You cannot pay a debt with a debt and all of the money, credits, Bank notes, checks, money orders etc. are ALL debt instruments, since they are all borrowed into circulation. If you don't understand this part, then ask yourself this question : "Did you create that money?" ? If the answer is no, then IT IS DEBT, TO YOU. The only way we can pay is (WE CAN'T)...but we can make an engagement to pay by "Acceptance for Value". Then they have to adjust our account, because there is our remedy, since they took away our ability to pay with real substance.lawful money The Emergency Banking Act (1934) and HJR 192 and other actions set up a fixed
"dollar for dollar" exchange rate allowing the perpetrators operating the "Federal
Reserve System" to exchange their Promissory Notes known as "Federal Reserve
Notes" for our United States Dollars defined as one ounce of fine silver.
They traded their paper promises for our actual silver and gold, and when it was time
for them to make good on their Notes, they declared bankruptcy and named us as
their sureties--- that is, they pretended to "represent" us and said we were
responsible for their debts after they siphoned off the entire value of our National
Credit, which by definition is equal in value to their National Debt. When the state or federal government is making us offers, i.e. warrants, indictments, fines, tickets etc., they are making us "Offers" and we are "Dishonoring" them. BECAUSE we are not "Accepting" them. When we "Accept" them, and we ask them to "adjust our account", they now have the obligation of "settlement". If they refuse, then they are in a position of "dishonor" now, and they are stepping out of their bounds as our Trustees in Bankruptcy. Now they are the ones with a Tax obligation on their hands because they have everything "ACCOUNTED FOR" in their system. "Accepting" how is "Dishonoring"a fictional offer or debt When you don't "Accept", you are in "Dishonour" only if your a person Can a Man be a DEBT . Might ask who can dishonour a TRUST accountability for lawful money is a demand on the Non-Negotiable Instruments a Man is non Negotiable until re venued. Been here before acceptability is Non-Negotiable.

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Thank you X;

You just explained that with all things SHROUT to choose from, this indictment is simply failure to file income tax returns on what can be proven to a grand jury is taxable income.

Shouts case number is 3:15-cr-00438-JO

on Pacer I believe it will show up as 15-cr-00438

Identified as such a legal name is just wholesale standing on further development do we need to SHROUT it out for ya. MEADS VS MEADS all the private persona standing any licensed legal marriage or legal tax paying Name can stand.I may not be spending a lot of time on this.nothing too see here Winstomb more -hereditary brilliance [RIP]no thanks.

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Originally Posted by David Merrill

I have to agree. The thing that always fails, in my opinion is that assertion debt has value. Everybody else thinks it does, and so that is supposed to maintain the delirium.

Maybe one of the first illusions pierced is like Michael Joseph called on as bullshit from the cartoon about money. The illusion debt has value is why it is so easy to misstate it that money is conjured out of thin air. It is backed by a naked contract (endorsement) and the security is slave-like substance.

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An unsecured loan. Unsecured doesn't mean 'not secured', it simply points to all assets of the debtor underwriting the loan rather than a specific asset (floating debentures vs fixed debentures). I suppose a promise to pay can be 'created out of thin air'. Whether any given promise to pay is worth anything or not might be subject to inspection. Why do banks want collateral? Hmmmm. In any case, it is well established that an unconditional promise to pay a sum certain in money is itself money.

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Originally Posted by David Merrill

...the Bretton Woods proposal of yours Allodial...

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How is it mine? :) I take the stance that the likes of exemption, immunity, forgiveness (cancellation of debt) have value. Afterall, if it is the extant sovereign that declares what is or what is not money, then at the fount of money would be sovereign prerogative, no? Relevantly, a sovereign's duty to promote equity goes without saying IMHO. [Is a ruler that is a terror to good works a ruler at all?]

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I've been endeavoring to obtain specimens of the IBOEs that he specifically utilized. I suspect they are the same as the type shown above. However, templates for them are apparently part of this 'course material'. Anyone have copies? Here's more...

http://www.whoscammedme.com/assets/i...5552C47954.jpg
Note that the foregoing is a promise to pay not an order to pay. It is not a bill of exchange.


... and...

Attachment 3763
Much the same as the letter-sized ones shown a few posts back. It is of such poor form even according to the most Kindergarten-level of comprehension of BOEs.

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For edification and comparison, here is specimen of a simple, textbook, non-defective bill of exchange:
Attachment 3764

There are at least three key role with respect to a bill of exchange:

1. the drawers (or issuer)
2. the payees (original payee as opposed to subsequent payees or endorsers)
3. the drawee (or payee--why do they specify the drawee twice?)

If a bill of exchange is payable through a bank rather than payable at a bank then the payable-through bank would be an additional (i.e. fourth) role player. Point being: it is rather easy to spot a defective instrument.

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Originally Posted by allodial

However, templates for them are apparently part of this 'course material'. Anyone have copies?

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Yes I have them. Seen him a few times.
Later when I get back home I will look for them tonight.

http://nesaranews.blogspot.ca/2016/0...day-alert.html

In a Talkshoe Recording on Thursday March 29, Mr. Shrout reveals ‘soft disclosures’ and talks about the ongoing Criminal Case in which he is involved.

Man charged with issuing $100 trillion in fake finance documents

http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-no...arges_hil.html

A federal grand jury has returned a new indictment against Hillsboro resident Winston Shrout, accusing him of defrauding U.S. financial institutions by issuing bogus documents and failing to file six years of income tax returns.

The grand jury returned an indictment charging Shrout with 13 counts of making, presenting and transmitting fictitious financial instruments and six counts of willfully failing to file income tax returns.

He's accused of making and issuing more than 300 fake "International Bills of Exchange'' on his own behalf and for credit to third parties. The government contends Shrout falsely claimed the bills had value and purported them to be worth more than $100 trillion.

The indictment also alleges Shrout promoted and marketed the fake financial documents to pay off debts.

He's also accused of failing to file income tax returns from 2009 through 2014 after receiving income for presentations at seminars and licensing fees for the sale of DVD recordings and private client consultations through his business Winston Shrout Solutions in Commerce.

By 2014, Shrout received gross income of more than $21,500, according to the indictment.

"Winston Shrout is one of the biggest sovereign citizen gurus of the last decade. This is a big deal, '' said Mark Pitcavage, senior research fellow with Anti-Defamation League center on extremism, in Ohio.

Anti-government sovereign citizens claim that paper money is unconstitutional, with gold and silver the only lawful forms of currency, so they find it easy to rationalize creating their own forms of paper money, according to the Anti-Defamation League.

"This is a very longstanding tactic in the sovereign citizen movement,'' Pitcavage said. "They love to use bogus financial instruments. Some use bogus checks. Some look like money orders. They use these to pay off the IRS or other debtors.''

Shrout was previously indicted in December on charges of failure to file tax returns. On that indictment, he told the court in February that he didn't want to be represented by a court-appointed attorney, and a judge allowed him to represent himself but named an assistant federal public defender to advise him. The court entered a not guilty plea on his behalf, according to court records.

Shrout is scheduled to return to court on this new indictment March 31.

If convicted, Shrout faces a maximum sentence of 25 years in prison on each count of making, presenting and transmitting fake financial documents and one year for each count of failure to file income tax returns.

Acting Assistant Attorney General Carolline D. Ciraolo of the U.S. Justice Department's Tax Division announced the new indictment in a prepared release Wednesday.

-- Maxine Bernstein

GUILTY
In case you haven’t seen the ‘news’, the USA vs. WINSTON SHROUT ended in a
guilty on all charges verdict. In this case there were ‘charges’ made by US
Attorney against the entity known as WINSTON SHROUT and then the job of the
attorney was to
somehow make a connection of WINSTON SHROUT and
Winston Shrout. This is always the standard method ... nothing new here.
When Winston motioned the court in a prove up as to just how that connection
was made, the judge immediately dismissed the motion. Win
ston was
prevented from questioning how the connection was made.
My question at
that time was basically what was the court afraid might be exposed in a prove
up type hearing? “Dismissed” ... okay, let’s move along.
It was standard procedure that when Winst
on made any motion
it was routinely
dismissed. This is not some ‘secret’, anyone can go to the court record and
trace the course of events for himself.
And there were no restrictions to the public. Anyone could have come and
watched the trial. I am not
telling some big ‘secret’ here.
But early on, t
his was starting to look like a slam
-
dunk for the prosecution.
If that was the case, then what ‘items’ could be inserted so that the whole
exercise was not just a total waste of time? I could see that it woul
d be a real
effort. I was blocked continually
.
Of course, I filed all of my assignment of reversionary interest and
authentication paperwork into the case, but to no effect as there was an agenda
here. I could see that this was not like when I get a traf
fic stop and after
running my STRAW MAN on their NCIC computer, the officer just comes and
gives back my paperwork, and sends me on my way. This is a whole lot
different from that. The ‘decision’ had already been made, and nothing would
stand in the way
of that.
Okay. I have no regrets. I have no accusations to make against anyone. I have
for years encouraged people to look in the ‘mirror’. For instance, when people
would contact me and observe that I had been indicted ... remember the mirror

... I would
just say the reverse of the concept and reply that ‘no, the government
did not indict me, the government indicted itself’. And they do this on a
continual basis.
Every battle field commander knows that to win or lose one battle does not win
or lose a war.
I am fully confident that the ‘big’ war has already been decided,
but yet like the Japanese soldier who was found decades after the end of WWII
on some remote island in the Pacific
who still thought the war was waging
, we
have some who think they can sti
ll win the war by picking off this or that
soldier. It won’t work.
Most people are not high enough in the ‘chain of command’ to experience what
I have had to deal with. Again, when I get pulled over in a low
-
level traffic
situation and after running my S
TRAW MAN on NCIC, the officer just sends me
on my way, that is on the day to day stuff most of us deal with. But since I
operate at some of the higher levels, and much of it on the international level, I
run into things that 99% of people don’t experience
. Naturally, the question
many would have is whether or not what happened to WINSTON will have
effect on them. I would guess, that no, in most normal circumstances that they
would not be positioned to be involved as is the case being described here.
I
h
ope that my words here would not be considered as vanity. This is not my
intent.
As the baseball player Yogi Be
rr
a
used to say: it ain’t over
‘
til
it’s
over.
In some respects, the ‘Guilty’ verdict actually helped me, as it
will
sort out a lot
of those who
are just ‘curious’ about all of this but who have no real
convictions. Some people who come upon a traffic accident faint at the sight of
blood. Some others of us who have a bit of first
-
aid training would be more
effective as we apply compresses over w
ounds or even a tourniquet to stop the
bleeding. Hopefully the volume of emails will drop off from the merely curious
giving me more time to teach
advanced first
-
aid technology. In my college years
I did take advanced first
-
aid. I have come upon situati
ons where that advanced
training may have been essential. And no, I do not faint at the sight of blood.
So, what now? Was it a total loss? I will go through the normal procedures with
sentencing and the appropriate appeal process. Hopefully, if it come
s to that,
the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals will see ‘things’ a bit differently. And I think
that will be the case. For those who don’t know, judges are trained at different

educational levels. The higher up you go, the better trained and educated the
judges are. Are reversals possible? Could be ... we’ll see.
But let me cue one important thing I was able to accomplish. The Office of
International Treasury Control has been in existence since 1995. I have exposed
this in several of the public arenas w
here I have spoken as I have shown my
official association with that. For instance, when I received an official
appointment into the OITC in 2010, Dr. Ray C. Dam as sole arbiter
‘noticed’ the
appropriate officers in the US Government and the United Nation
s. Look at the
word ‘noticed’. For those who are a bit educated in some of this, you would be
aware that a ‘notice’ has little weight ... ‘I got noticed, so what?’.
But when I was able to take the stand and give evidence in my own defense,
with the help of
some ‘angel’, I was able to put my appointment and
accompanying Apostille into ‘evidence’ meaning now that OITC has moved
beyond ‘notice’ as I was able to make the ‘record’. Oops. Now can the US say ...
‘so what?’, or is there now a responsibility/liabili
ty? That was one small
‘victory’, but obviously it did not win the battle.
So, life goes on. Do I have any animosity against anyone for this? No. In fact I
openly forgave the prosecutor right there in court. Do I have any bad feelings
toward the jury
even though they deliberated by my count over 8 hours, which
would normally result in a ‘hung jury’ and a mistrial? Not at all. I suppose they
had their ‘instructions’ and did their ‘duty’. They will have no bad feelings from
me. But if they acted agai
nst the evidence and against their own conscience, I
can only imagine the amount of karma they took on. That I am sorry for, but I
can do nothing for them. And this is something for all of us to consider
that our
acts, especially those acts which would g
o against our conscience and higher
selves, may have dire impacts on our lives, until we can come to terms with that
karma, and deal with it.
Will I solve this
problem in the US court system?
Maybe
,
but
there appears to
be little remedy there. I will tak
e this up at the international level. I suspect
that I will shortly have this resolved. When I do that I will write another article
which will be entitled
PROBLEM SOLVED
. Then this article entitled
GUILTY
will
become moot.
There is an old say
ing
: every tu
b has to stand on its own bottom. Each
individual has to take responsibility for themselves. Does what happens to John
or Mary directl
y affect everyone on the planet?
Probably not
,
unless you
consider the ‘butterfly effect’
. But regardless of what John
or Mary experiences,
everyone else has to take responsibility for themselves. I live within this body
and the outer layer of skin is as far as I go. Everything else is ‘not me’. So, what
may or may not happen to WINSTON or even Winston, ... every tub has
to stand
on its own bottom.
Stand in your own truth.
Winston

By Maxine Bernstein

mbernstein@oregonian.com

The Oregonian/OregonLive

A federal jury Friday returned across-the board guilty verdicts against Winston Shrout, a prominent sovereign citizen charged with 13 counts of issuing fake financial documents to banks and the U.S. Treasury and six counts of willful failure to file tax returns from 2009 to 2014.

The jury foreman stood and read each guilty verdict for each of the 19 counts as Shrout watched from his seat at the defense table. Shrout displayed no expression.

He will be sentenced at 11 a.m. on Aug. 1.

U.S. District Judge Robert E. Jones polled each of the jurors to ensure the 12-member panel was unanimous in its findings. As the jury foreman began reading each of the verdicts, one juror teared up. A fellow juror reached out to hold her hand as the rest of the verdicts were announced.

The judge ordered Shrout to turn over his passport and restricted him from any travel outside of Oregon without prior court permission.

The jury deliberated for about five hours over two days following a three-day trial.

Government lawyers argued Shrout aimed to cheat the Treasury and banks, and preached his illegal schemes to hundreds of others in paid seminars across the country and abroad.

He purposely sent a package of 1,000 homemade International Bills of Exchange, each purporting to be a legal tender for a trillion dollars, to a small community bank in Chicago "hoping to slip one by an unsuspecting banker,'' U.S. Tax Division trial lawyer Scott Wexler told jurors.

Investigators found a copy of the U.S. Tax Code and the U.S. Department of Justice's criminal tax manual on Shrout's laptop computer, seized one night in the parking lot of The Grotto in Portland after he concluded a seminar there. The computer also contained an alert from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, cautioning banks and federal savings institutions to be on the lookout for the circulation of such fictitious financial documents, Wexler said.

Shrout was driven by "simple greed,'' Wexler told jurors during his closing argument. He earned a total of $562,224 from a carpentry pension, plus royalties and payments for his seminars, between 2009 and 2014, the years he failed to file tax returns, the prosecutor said.

"He intended to get and keep as much money as he could,'' Wexler said. "The defendant knew he didn't have legal authority to print legal tender of the United States from his home computer... The defendant didn't file his tax returns because he didn't want to.''

The 69-year-old took the stand in his own defense, claiming he was given authority to make the financial documents from the Office of International Treasury Control in order to help relieve debts from mortgage foreclosures. The office Shrout cited, though, is considered by the U.S. government a fraudulent organization that claims ties to the United Nations and the Federal Reserve.

His standby lawyer Ruben Iniguez stressed that "not a single penny was paid out or transacted by anyone'' as a result of the 13 fictitious documents Shrout sent. He argued that the government was simply out to "muzzle'' his client.

Shrout also testified that he hadn't paid taxes for about 20 years, joining what he estimated are about 65 million other people in what he called "tax avoidance.'' Iniguez, in his closing argument, argued that Shrout held a firm and sincere belief that he didn't have to pay taxes.

Shrout declined comment after the verdicts were announced.

Making, creating and issuing fictitious financial instruments is a felony. Each count could bring up to 25 years in prison, according to prosecutors. The failure to file tax returns is a misdemeanor punishable by up to one year in prison.

-- Maxine Bernstein

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I am sorry to announce that due to matters beyond my control that Solutions in Commerce is now suspended. This suspension will be in effect until we have the change in government that I have been reporting on now for a long time.

Using the internet and funding WSSIC using FRNs is in fact a privilege. That privilege is now suspended awaiting the expected changes.

Hopefully, through my efforts many people have benefited from what I have been able to share over the 14 years of this effort. It has been an interesting journey as development of ‘usable’ technology has been shared.

With the expected change in our currency, the US Note which is substance backed as per the requirements of the Basel III agreements of all countries will change the world of commerce.

Also, the anticipated NESARA/GESARA announcements will launch the whole population of the planet into a ‘new’ commercial world.
So, we wait upon these developments.

My heart felt thanks goes out to the many who have supported the efforts of WSSIC are many. I love you. Thank you.

-Winston Shrout

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