LESSON: Part IV - Regardless of the perfect and conscientious life you think you lead, this may happen to you next Tuesday. As a successful business leader, you must take a step back and understand the inside reality of how the DOJ & Federal Court System actually works. Knowledge is power, and possibly the protection you may need to be better prepared than I was. 100% true facts below.
The lesson below is an excerpt from my upcoming book, Icarus: Zero to a Billion to Zero, January 2026, Ash Press.
In the spirit of the remarkable new movement to bring transparency and accountability to the bloated United States Government, I want to release more true-life-experience facts about the system. In Part IV we continue our education for, many times, an unsuspecting, vulnerable business leadership group. Protect your success!
14. If the government comes after you and your successful business, they will serve up a huge number of indictment charges they call counts. This nearly guarantees your conviction because human psychology will determine you must be guilty of something! Also, the jury’s human brains believe if they find you not guilty on certain charges and guilty of just one or a few, they have acted fairly. What a jury doesn’t know, and the court rules don’t allow the jury to be told, if you are convicted on one charge and found not guilty on 13 charges, it will come with a long-term sentence exactly the same as if found guilty on all. My indictment came with 27 different counts, one was discarded as theater to show actual analysis and consideration, I was found guilty on some charges, innocent on others, and hung jury on others. Nothing mattered – the 14 years sentence was easily invoked, regardless. There is almost no way they can lose – yet I still urge you to stand up for the truth if you can bear the costs.
15. If you honor the Constitution and testify in your own defense, you are almost guaranteed additional charges for perjury. Since the federal government’s conviction rate is 98.5%, if you testify in your own defense, you will be found guilty and then the prosecutor has a layup to add additional charges and enhancements to increase your prison sentence for perjury. I told my defense attorney, James Broccoletti, I wanted to testify, and he agreed for us to address the truth. Since I was ultimately convicted, the prosecutors added more years onto the sentence for perjury since if I said no one did anything wrong and I lost, then I must have lied! I handed them more years. (see Martha Stewart and Gen. Flynn).
16. The federal judge will many times ensure the prosecution wins even if necessary to cover up their mistakes or intentional errors. The Constitution calls for a distinct break between the judicial and executive branches to ensure fairness and law, yet the judicial branch regularly interjects to ensure the 98.5% conviction rate. We have discussed judge Robert Doumar’s bizarre acts in my trial and removal by the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals for his unlawful behavior. Yet, when the prosecutors attempted to indict me on more charges once my initial sentence was reversed, they invoked a rare statute with an expired 5-year statue of limitations. When appealed, the replacement judge, Wanda Wright, blatantly switched the prosecutor’s submission to a new 10-year statute so it wasn’t thrown out. Eventually, by my pro se motions, she was also removed from the case.
Protect your success. Knowledge is power. Take care of your family. Have a great week!
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