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I had to go to Mason, Michigan to the Ingham Court of Claims in front of Judge Collette as Bill Schuette, Michigan Attorney General, brought forth an action in quo warranto to dissolve my company, Detroit Land Bank Authority, LLC.
Bill Schuette, Detroit Land Bank Authority, U.S. Department of Defense & Fraud: Part I
As the law goes, an individual cannot represent a corporation in a court of law.
I had no attorney to represent my case as I hail from "The Poors" (always said with clinched teeth).
I knew my company was going to be dissolved on procedurals, but I decided that it was more important to preserve the public record, the annals of history.
I had the grand opportunity to watch oral arguments from an attorney who was trying to get his client out of a judgment for attorney fees.
Judge Collette was quite the character, impressing me in how he fashionably scolded the attorney on the judgment.
Then, before the other attorneys had put on their suit coats and packed up their cases, the Judge called my case.
He let the Assistant Attorney General from Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA) speak, about 30 seconds, then allowed me.
I made the point that LARA had statutory powers to dissolve but only brought this case to court for judgment in my federal false claims case.
I raised the issue that this was a court of equity and not administrative decisions, when, abruptly I was cut off.
The Judge made the following statement:
"You know you have caused a lot of people have a lot of problems."
He went on to say, "I do not appreciate being scamed to make money someplace else."
I was not the one who broughtforth the action.
The Assistant Attorney General deemed me to be a public nuisance, but I have to wait and see if it is in the Order.
Oddly enough, there was no ruling on my counterclaim, there was no declaration that the case was adjourned, dismissed, nothing but a vaccuum of silence when the Judge swiftly left the bench and the Assitant Attorney General whisked himself out the court.
You could tell they did not want to be in that courtroom.
I stood in shock, not understanding what was going on.
The strangest thing of all of this was everyone was really nice, repectfully nice.
It made me feel uncomfortably weird as I am so accustomed to people being mean to me.
Then, I came home, checked the news, and everything became crystal clear, making perfect sense of why a funny thing happened in the court, today.
Detroit demolition official involved in 2012 tax case
The Detroit Land Bank Authority's interim demolition director -- tapped in August after the previous director resigned -- was in 2012 permanently barred from promoting a tax fraud scheme that resulted in the conviction of two others, the Free Press has learned.
Tammy Daniels consented to the federal civil court order, but she did not admit allegations against her. She was not charged criminally.
The scheme involved the preparation of tax returns that reported bogus income in order to receive large false refunds. The refund checks were to be issued in "C/O Attorney Tammy Daniels," according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
The Land Bank previously reviewed Daniels' involvement in the scheme and concluded it was not a problem.
Saskia Thompson, executive director of the Detroit Land Bank Authority, said Daniels "has been, and continues to be, an important member of the DLBA (Detroit Land Bank Authority) team."
"We reviewed all of the documentation months ago, concerning the issues raised over five years ago, and our board concluded that Ms. Daniels had done nothing wrong," Thompson said in a statement to the Free Press. "This conclusion was based on the facts that the federal government filed no charges against her, and the Michigan Attorney Grievance Commission found no cause to take any action against her. The DLBA is fully confident in Ms. Daniels' ability to continue to carry out her duties in an effective and ethical manner."
I have yet to come to a conclusion to as whether the Michigan Attorney Grievance Commission is dirty or just stupid.
I have yet to come to a conclusion to as whether the Michigan Attorney Grievance Commission is dirty or just stupid.
The Land Bank's demolition department has seen a handful of high-ranking officials depart since federal authorities launched a criminal investigation last year into the city's demolition program. The Land Bank helps run the program by facilitating payments to contractors from the city's allocation of more than $250 million in federal funds for demolition.
The Land Bank hired Daniels as a staff attorney in 2015. She was named deputy general counsel in July 2015. Her salary is $124,800.
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Daniels' co-defendants in the civil case, Damian and Holly Jackson, ended up pleading guilty in 2015 to one count each in a criminal case related to the tax scheme.
Daniels met Jackson in 2009 and signed a retainer agreement with his company, Diamond & Associates Enterprises in January 2010, according to court records.
Diamond Tax Services, which operated through Diamond & Associates, sought over $29 million in fraudulent tax refunds for at least 182 customers, according to a Justice Department news release in 2012. Most, if not all, of the refunds were sought in 2010.
Daniels did not prepare the fraudulent tax returns, but she lent her name for the scheme's promotional materials and received a 2.5% cut of three improper refunds, an amount equal to $2,218.
"Daniels and Jackson knew that including an attorney's name gave the promotion credibility, and Daniels admits that on one occasion, because her name was included in the materials, she was asked for her opinion about the arrangement and told a customer or potential customer that it was legitimate," an attorney for the Justice Department's tax division wrote in a filing seeking the civil injunction against Daniels.
NOTE: Per the Order of the Court, I am making a public declaration that the Detroit Land Bank Authority, LLC is officially dissolved and that I have no affiliation with such entity.
That made me all warm and fuzzy because it looks like it is all going down.
Stay tuned, it is not what you think it is.
Federal Court Permanently Bars Michigan Lawyer from Promoting Alleged Tax Fraud Scheme
Farmington Hills, Mich., Woman Allegedly Involvedwith Scheme Claiming Fraudulent Income Tax Refunds
Farmington Hills, Mich., Woman Allegedly Involvedwith Scheme Claiming Fraudulent Income Tax Refunds
A federal court has permanently barred a Michigan lawyer, Tammy Daniels of Farmington Hills, from promoting an alleged tax fraud scheme, the Justice Department announced today. The civil injunction order, to which Daniels consented without admitting the allegations against her, was signed by Judge Paul D. Borman of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. In August the court enjoined Daniels’s co-defendants, Damian and Holly Jackson, from preparing federal tax returns for others and promoting the scheme.
The government complaint in the civil injunction lawsuit alleged that the Jacksons and their business, Diamond & Associates Enterprises LLC, operated Diamond Tax Services and promoted a scheme involving the preparation of fraudulent federal income tax returns for customers seeking large tax refunds based on a frivolous tax-defier theory called “redemption” or “commercial redemption.” The suit alleged that tax returns prepared for at least 182 customers under the auspices of Diamond Tax Services sought over $29 million in fraudulent refunds by falsely reporting large amounts of tax withheld on bogus Internal Revenue Service (IRS) 1099 Forms.
While most such frivolous refund claims are intercepted by the IRS before refunds are issued, the complaint alleged that the defendants’ scheme caused the IRS to issue at least $1.6 million in erroneous refunds to defendants’ customers. The suit further alleged that tax returns that Damian and Holly Jackson prepared requested the IRS to issue the refunds to their customers “C/O Attorney Tammy Daniels,” that Daniels negotiated the refund check if one was issued, and that the Jacksons and Daniels took a 10 percent cut of any refund issued by the IRS.
Return-preparer fraud and false claims for refund using fake information returns, such as Form 1099, are among the IRS’s“Dirty Dozen” tax scams for 2012.
In the past decade the Justice Department’s Tax Division has obtained injunctions against hundreds of tax-return preparers and tax-fraud promoters.
Information about these cases is available on the Justice Department website .
Information about these cases is available on the Justice Department website .
Related Documents:
United States v. Damian Jackson, et al
Oh my goodness, I believe we have figured out the scam for the Detroit Land Bank Authority cashing checks and it was not just through Title Source, Inc.
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