A single fraudulent lien filing waves can impose massive real costs on officials

Evidence

In 2013, for example, a Minneapolis couple named Thomas and Lisa Eilertson filed a whopping $250 billion in liens against various government employees, an act of revenge after their home had been foreclosed in 2009. Their targets included the local sheriff, the county registrar, various court employees, and attorneys for the county. “It affects your credit rating, it affected my wife, it affected my children,” Sheriff Richard Stanek told the New York Times, referring to the liens. “We spent countless hours trying to undo it.” — Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies, 673

Categorization

• CANDY: A $250 billion revenge lien filing by a couple against government employees is a striking, odd fact worth retelling over coffee.
• SHARE: Worth sending to anyone interested in sovereign citizen tactics or the fragility of government records systems, since it quantifies the scale of paper-terrorism retaliation.
• XREF: connects to: Anyone can file UCC liens that take long to clear, enabling paper terrorism — Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies, 674; Even a fake and overblown poisoning threat caused real economic and security costs — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2256

Broader Connections

• Even a fake and overblown poisoning threat caused real economic and security costs #exemplifies (0.85) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2256