Heres the Court case, you may want to use it for i
Post# of 4754
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA
Joseph Riad, Plaintiff
Vs.
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Defendant
JURISDICTION, VENUE, AND CONDITIONS PRECEDENT
1. The claims herein are brought against the United States pursuant to the Federal Tort Claims Act (28 U.S.C. §2671, et seq.) and 28 U.S.C. §§1346(b)(1), for money Damages as compensation for loss of property that was caused by the intentional, Willful, wrongful, and/or negligent acts and/or omissions of employees and/or Agents of the United States Government while acting within the scope of their Offices and/or employment, under circumstances where the United States, if a Private person, would be liable to Plaintiff in accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
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Plaintiff has fully complied with the provisions of 28 U.S.C. §2675(a) of the Federal Tort Claims Act. Plaintiff filed his Standard Form 95 Administrative Claim on June 4, 2010, and properly served it upon the Department of Homeland Security and the United States Department of Justice. Plaintiff’s claim was denied and Plaintiff now files this cause of action, as granted under the federal statute. A full copy of Plaintiff’s Form 95 Claim is attached hereto as “Exhibit A: Form 95 Claim”.
(HUMMM, Why did they denie his claim, are they trying to hide something??? After all they are the ones that took 5 bonds and didn’t return them to Riad without an explanation… Bunch of thieves if you ask me…)
(What the Defendants stole…)
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Plaintiff possesses three sealed and certified bronze boxes. Each box contains Two-hundred fifty (250) one billion dollar ($1,000,000,000) 1934 Federal Reserve Bonds. The serial numbers of said bonds in each of the three bronze boxes are as follows:
a. Box 1: F49494950A through F49495199A;
b. Box 2: F49494950B through F49495199B; and
c. Box 3: F49494950C through F49495199C.
Plaintiff has spent the previous nine (9) years engaging various and numerous experts and legal counsel so as to thoroughly and conclusively establish the existence, veracity, and authenticity of his bonds.
(Seems like he was making sure they were the real MaCoy too me. Doesn’t seem like he was trying to cash them in like some people are saying that he was trying to get rid of them illegally, he was building his case that they were real)
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Kermit Harmon, PE, CEM, CCP, DGCP, a former Security Director for the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank1 and an expert in bonds, notes, and other financial instruments, inspected said bonds with the assistance and expertise of an additional forensic expert, Bruce Colburn, PhD, P.E., CEM. After a thorough inspection of
[In his official capacity as Security Director for the Dallas Federal Reserve, Mr. Harmon had been involved with the verification of different high denomination bonds, and in fact held a sample in his hands after it had been independently authenticated by others (it was $100 million denomination bond). Therefore, Plaintiff had an independent confirmation that such type bonds did exist, and had been printed legitimately, despite US web sites claiming such instruments do not exist.
Plaintiff’s bonds and based upon his knowledge and expertise, Mr. Harmon concluded that Plaintiff’s bonds met a wide and specific variety of test requirements and in fact are authentic, government-issued Federal Reserve Bonds. Mr. Harmon’s report addressing the authenticity of the Bonds and his and Dr. Colburn’s credentials are attached hereto as “Exhibit B: Harmon Report”.
After reviewing the Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) document records, Mr. Harmon also confirmed that the serial numbers of Plaintiff’s bonds referred to in Paragraph 7, (The above serial numbers that were stolen by Mr. Jones and the Secret Service Department) herein above can all be verified at the U.S. Treasury Archive Office as being legitimate, high-denomination bond numbers that were all issued and/or assigned to government bonds by legitimate representatives of the U.S. Government at or around the time Plaintiff believes his bonds were printed. See “Exhibit B: Harmon Report”.
(I would think that these two professionals alone, along with 9 years of other professionals proving authentification, is enough proof to confirm the bonds are real…) Peeps that say there not go off of the statements on the board here what’s their professional status? I don’t see any of their credentials!! They can’t prove that there not real, so why go on their word… Don’t make sense IMO)
Plaintiff’s bonds all possess the same physical qualities, characteristics, and construction as all other BEP and U.S. Treasury documents. The paper used in Plaintiff’s bonds is identical to the currency paper used by the U.S. Treasury for printing currency and bonds, and the bonds possess the identical security features that were in use by the BEP during the time period that Plaintiff’s bonds were believed to have been printed. See, “Exhibit B: Harmon Report” attached hereto.
(Wow, extensive research for the so to say, “fake bonds,” looks as though they have everything they need to verify that the bonds are real and proven by professionals with credentials to back the authentication of the bonds. What do the people, that say there not have for proof that there not real? A “photo shot of a bond”, and their speculation of what they think, is proof??? LOL, REALLY???
Having extensively authenticated his bonds, Plaintiff contacted former Deputy Secretary of the Treasury, Stuart Eizenstat, Esquire, for assistance in repatriating the bonds to the U.S. Treasury, with his intent being to assist in reducing outstanding U.S. debts. Mr. Eizenstat was familiar with repatriation of high denomination bonds and had been involved peripherally in such transactions while Deputy Secretary of the Treasury in the 1990s. At a meeting in February 2008, Plaintiff showed Mr. Eizenstat high resolution photos of the boxes and bonds and provided a sample bond for Mr. Eizenstat to inspect. Because Mr. Eizenstat recognized that the bond in his hand and the high resolution photos of the boxes
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[If it were possible to construct such a box today, the boxes would each cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to construct. Moreover, Mr. Obara noted that there were, and are, only a handful of people in the world who had, or have, the skill-set necessary to develop such pieces. . Furthermore, due to the unique workmanship and excessive costs involved in creating such a box, it is clear that the boxes were extremely unique and only people who had a legitimate need for those boxes would ever have commissioned them. As such, Plaintiff’s claim that the bronze boxes are authentic and certifiable are certainly substantiated, which, in turn, further substantiates Plaintiff’s claim that his bonds are also authentic and certifiable. Plaintiff later contacted Dr. Franklin Noll, a consultant with of the Bureau of Public Debt who is an historian with expertise in the history of government-issued, high-denomination bonds, such as those Plaintiff possesses. Dr. Noll is a known lecturer, and he frequently writes published papers for the U.S. government regarding high-denomination bonds such as Plaintiff’s. In communications with Plaintiff, Dr. Noll stated that such bonds were prepared legally by the U.S. government for debt management purposes in the 1930s, and that billion-dollar bonds were prepared as part of this effort. Dr. Noll explained that such bonds, stored in custom bronze boxes, were common at that time because it was cheaper at that time to prepare and then move high-denomination bonds and their bronze boxes as compared to moving hundreds of times more pieces of lower-denomination currency and bonds, which would have been cumbersome and impractical (Makes Sense). Written and telephone communications between Dr. Noll, Plaintiff, and Dr. Colburn concerning these details further substantiated the history and existence of bonds such as Plaintiff’s bonds and their containment boxes. Plaintiff provided Dr. Noll with copies of the forensic data and reports obtained by Plaintiff, and, after reviewing those documents, Dr. Noll acknowledged that Plaintiff had followed a methodical, rigorous, and sophisticated inspection and authentication of his bonds, and generally agreed with the findings of Mr. Harmon and Dr. Colburn.]
were authentic and genuine, he was shocked at what Plaintiff had provided to him.
(Here we go again, CONFIRMED ATHENTICATION, wonder if this was the same photo they been posting on the board…LOL)
Mr. Eizenstat referred Plaintiff to other counsel. Through a business acquaintance, Plaintiff was introduced to Patrick Oxford, Esquire of Houston, who then assisted Plaintiff in determining and then contacting the appropriate U.S. governmental agency that could best assist Plaintiff in repatriating his bonds for redemption or reward. Mr. Eizenstat was familiar with Mr. Oxford and was very helpful and cooperative in providing background information to him in support of the work Plaintiff had completed to secure a successful repatriation of the gold-backed Government bonds.
Based upon Mr. Eizenstat’s advice and with the assistance of Mr. Oxford, Plaintiff contacted the U.S. Secret Service in or around mid-2008, as he was informed that this agency would be able to assist him in repatriating his bonds.
Plaintiff and Mr. Oxford met with representatives of the Secret Service, Agents Chad Sweet and Craig Caldwell at Mr. Oxford’s Houston law offices. Upon the request of the Agents Sweet and Caldwell, Plaintiff provided copies of his expert reports, as well as several of his actual bonds to the Secret Service for their inspection. Agents Sweet and Caldwell requested that they be able to keep the bonds for further inspection, and Plaintiff was ensured by those agents that his bonds would be returned to him within one to two weeks in the same condition in which they received them and records of the exact bonds and documents loaned to the Secret Service in Houston were confirmed. Said reports are attached hereto as a part of “Exhibit A: Form 95 Claim”.
(Please Read Carefully)
Agents Sweet and Caldwell inspected Plaintiff’s bonds, reviewed the accompanying expert reports, and performed their own evaluations and tests so as to render their own opinion as to the authenticity of Plaintiff’s bonds. Upon concluding their inspection of the bonds, and as promised, the agents returned Plaintiff’s bonds and his expert reports to him via Mr. Oxford. At that time, the agents advised Plaintiff that while they were not able to “officially state” that the bonds were authentic, they did inform Plaintiff that the mere fact that the “bonds were being returned to Plaintiff indicated that they were not fraudulent or illegal, as such status would require them to be seized by the Secret Service.”
Agents Sweet and Caldwell then specifically referred Plaintiff to Donna Ayers, an official (Official what?) with the Bureau of Public Debt (BPD) in West Virginia. Plaintiff was further advised by them that the BDP was the specific government agency that would be able to best handle the redemption of Plaintiff’s bonds (Riad did not want to redeem the bonds, he wanted them confirmed, they most likely couldn’t afford to pay Riad there worth).
(She didn’t even look at the bonds)
Accordingly, Plaintiff contacted Donna Ayers at the BPD in or around September 2008, initially via email and then by phone. Despite the reports and findings provided to her by Plaintiff and despite the fact that Plaintiff was specifically directed to contact her by Agents Sweet and Caldwell, Ms. Ayers categorically denied the existence of bonds such as Plaintiff’s bonds and directed Plaintiff back to the Secret Service. !!!!!!
(Why do peeps on the board here, take her word over numerous examinations from multiple professionals that verified the existents and authentic of the bonds???)
She didn’t even look at the bonds, she never showed any credentials as to whom she is, and the bonds were stated to be in existents by numerous professionals “with credentials”. Seems to me she was blowing it off for some reason!!!) Not very professional towards the cause IMO… (No explanation for any of her comments!!!)
Plaintiff again contacted Agents Caldwell and Sweet, who again contacted Ms. Ayers and informed her that Plaintiff had completed the appropriate and required examination and authentication of the Bonds and that the redemption of said bonds did fall under the purview of the BPD, since the Bonds were outstanding government issued securities/debts.
Upon contacting Ms. Ayers again, Plaintiff was advised by her that neither she, nor the BPD, had the authority to redeem his bonds.
(Interesting, are we hiding or avoiding something here????)
Having made no progress with the Ms. Ayers or the BPD, Plaintiff then pursued outside assistance in determining the specific government agency that would have the means and authority to assist him with his attempts to redeem the bonds.
During this same time period, Plaintiff also contacted various government officials for assistance in repatriating his bonds, including US Representative Joe Pitts (PA), Senator Arlen Specter (PA), and Senator Rick Santorum (PA).
As part of his ongoing attempts to find the correct government agency which could handle repatriation of Plaintiff’s bonds for reward to Plaintiff, the Plaintiff was directed by another party to contact Neil Gibson, an alleged British financial consultant who claimed to have experience in the repatriation of high-denomination U.S. government bonds, and who represented to Plaintiff that he had a contract with the US Government to complete such transactions and that he had successfully handled such projects on behalf of the US Government in the past. (REALLY??? This is where it get interesting, LOL)
Gibson substantiated his credentials by emailing Plaintiff an electronic copy of correspondence on Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco letterhead ostensibly from one Robert Davis dated March 31, 2008. Said correspondence confirmed Mr. Gibson’s prior statements to Plaintiff and Mr. Oxford, specifically stating that Mr. Gibson had the requisite experience and authority to assist Plaintiff with repatriating his U.S. bonds. The correspondence also indicated that Mr. Davis was the director of the Special Acquisitions Division of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (FRBSF).4 Said correspondence also included the contact information for Agent Nickolaus Jones (Ahhhh, Mr. Jones) from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) – Office of Investigations, and stated that Agent Jones was the DHS officer who needed to be contacted to repatriate such bonds. A copy of said correspondence is attached hereto as “Exhibit D: Davis Correspondence”.
Mr. Gibson then allegedly provided services to Plaintiff by contacting Special Agent Daniel Lombardi of the U.S. Secret Service, ostensibly to further validate the existence and authenticity of Plaintiff’s bonds. At some point, it was reported to Plaintiff by Neil Gibson by phone that Agent Lombardi confirmed the legitimacy of Plaintiff’s bonds and that the serial numbers of the bonds were valid and verifiable through the Department of the Treasury. The exact details of the communications between Mr. Gibson and Agent Lombardi are unknown to Plaintiff (The plot thickens).
In an effort to expedite his attempt to repatriate his bonds and because Mr. Gibson had allegedly become unavailable to Plaintiff due to business travel, Plaintiff contacted Agent Jones directly, as the correspondence Plaintiff was given by Mr. Gibson indicated that Agent Jones was the individual from the DHS who would be able to assist Plaintiff in repatriating his bonds and obtaining the resulting reward
[However, later investigations revealed that, not only was Mr. Davis a fictitious character, but he was a deliberate and necessary confabulation in Agent Jones’ plan to fraudulently obtain Plaintiff’s bonds.]
(Ahhh,, Behold the Truth)
fees from the US Government. However, no phone number was provided for Agent Jones, and Mr. Oxford used his contacts in Washington, D.C. to track down Agent Jones in his Irvine, CA DHS offices.
Plaintiff was able to contact Agent Jones and he confirmed to Plaintiff his ability and his specific, government-granted authority as a DHS agent to handle matters involving the repatriation of high-denomination gold bonds such as Plaintiff’s. Although later determined to be a bald-faced lie, Agent Jones confirmed that he and Mr. Gibson enjoyed an effective working relationship with the agency for the previous five (5) years. Agent Jones continued his deception by advising Plaintiff specifically that he had prior experience with such high-denomination, gold-backed bonds, and that those individuals whom he had assisted in the past had received the standard “reward” for repatriating such bonds. Agent Jones advised Plaintiff that, based upon his experience, said reward amount was between three (3) and five (5) percent of the face value of the bonds and would be paid by the U.S. Treasury. (Jones a LIER IMO)
Throughout the various and repeated telephone and email communications with Plaintiff, Agent Jones confirmed the existence of various high-denomination, gold-backed bonds such as Plaintiff’s, and went so far as to state that Plaintiff’s initial description of his bonds was strikingly similar to the high-denomination, gold-backed bonds Agent Jones knew existed and that he, therefore, wanted to learn more about Plaintiff’s bonds.
(Now; so far we have professional examiners stating the bonds are authentic/REAL, and two more professionals confirming they are authentic/Real. A lady “Ayers” from West Virginia (BPD) stating they are not real and don’t exist, when she didn’t give the time of day to examine them, then she stated that her particular division doesn’t deal with them after the professionals that referred Mr. Riad to her, said she does. Now we have the Secret Service division stating that the bonds do exist and they want to examine them... Sounds like a scam about to happen too me, that these SS individuals want to examine them even know the other government official says they don’t exist…LOL)