OC Register article on sovereign citizen debt elimination

[Lambkin]

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/sove ... tgage.html

Faced with foreclosure after falling $19,000 behind on his mortgage, an Anaheim man took matters into his own hands.

Sitting at his keyboard, he tapped out an official-looking, one-page document stating that his mortgage didn't exist.

Influenced by the "sovereign citizen" movement, the Anaheim homeowner is among a growing number of people filing liens and notices seeking to wipe out mortgages, eliminate car loans, cancel credit card debt and halt foreclosures, according to county and law enforcement officials.

"Innocent members of the community who don't believe in the ideology can get sucked in and defrauded out of their money, and they end up getting foreclosed on because they're not paying their mortgage," said Lawrence Buckley, an FBI anti-terror supervisor in Northern California. " ... Due to the slow economic recovery and the challenging times for many, it's probably not surprising that this is a growing problem."

[Judge Roy Bean]

... "Innocent members of the community who don't believe in the ideology can get sucked in and defrauded out of their money, and they end up getting foreclosed on because they're not paying their mortgage," said Lawrence Buckley, an FBI anti-terror supervisor in Northern California. " ... Due to the slow economic recovery and the challenging times for many, it's probably not surprising that this is a growing problem."

Hmmm ... it's only now a "growing problem?"

I think Special Agent Buckley is late to the game - particularly in his neck of the woods where the Dorean Group perpetrators have now been behind bars for several years.