Randall David Due Convicted of Filing False Liens Against Federal Officials

Justice Department prosecutors -- waging a legal fight against sovereign citizens in America’s Heartland -- have won a conviction against a man who filed false liens seeking to legally tie up personal property of various federal officials.

Randall David Due, of Pelham, Ga., was convicted Thursday in Omaha, Neb., of seven counts of conspiracy to file and filing false liens against two federal judges, three federal prosecutors and a criminal investigator with the Internal Revenue Service. The defendant faces the likelihood of several years in prison when he’s sentenced in December.

Due was accused of directing co-defendant Donna Kozak and another woman of filing bogus liens totaling $18.9 million against the home and property of U.S. District Court Judge Laurie Smith Camp.

Due prepared the false liens at his home in Georgia and directed Kozak and Collins to file the documents in Boyd County, Neb., where the federal judge presided over a 2012 trial of two antigovernment tax protesters.

Kozak, Due’s co-defendant, awaits sentencing after being convicted Aug. 1 by a federal jury in Omaha of two counts of conspiring to file false liens against federal officials’ property.

The sovereign citizen filings directed by Due – with the potential of causing economic hardship for those targeted with the “paper terrorism” – came three days before Judge Camp sentenced two antigovernment tax protesters.

The false filings also attempted to encumber the property of U.S. District Court Judge John Gerrard, U.S. Attorney Deborah Gilg, Assistant U.S. Attorneys Douglas Semisch and Michael Norris and IRS Special Agent Ashley Thompson.

The court clerk’s office show Due didn’t back off after he was indicted, continuing his barrage of paper terrorism against the U.S. government and its officials, filing most of the nearly 500 separate document filings in the expansive court case.

At one point, he wrote that “Randall David Due, in the Flesh and Blood in Proper Person, do not consent to be an accessory party to Fraud … and/or violation of my certain un-a-lien-able Rights endowed by my Creator and secured by the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and by our soldiers who swear an Oath to defend this Nation and its Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic.”

But after Due’s conviction last week, trial judge Robert T. Dawson ordered an end to the foolishness. “Because of the overwhelming number of filings of documents, pleadings, notices, protests, etc. in this case, the Court Clerk is instructed to not file any document or anything within this file unless it has been approved for filing by the undersigned,” the judge said in his order.

The sovereign citizen filings carried out by Due and other co-conspirators were retaliation for an earlier Justice Department prosecution of two antigovernment tax protesters with sovereign citizen leanings.

David L. Kleensang, 63, and his wife, Bernita M. Kleensang, 61, both of Hays Springs, Neb., were convicted of attempting to defraud the U.S. government out of $49 million. They were sentenced to six-year prison terms in 2012.

At their trial, prosecutors convinced a jury that the Kleensangs had not filed any tax returns from 2003 to 2006 and 2008 through 2011. In “do-it-yourself” lawsuits that are typical of sovereign citizens, the Kleensangs said they did not have to file tax returns because they were not federal employees and didn’t live in the District of Columbia.

However, in 2008, the Kleensangs filed 67 returns with the IRS, demanding refunds ranging from $2.5 million to $5 million. The Kleensangs claimed they made the filings to “get justice” and compensation for lawsuits they filed in state courts.