Roger Elvick developed the “
redemption
process” and, in conjunction with the efforts of Dave
DeReimer and Jean Keating, started its promotion in 1999. Soon,
seminars were being conducted all across the country and attendees
were being encouraged to use checks allegedly drawn on the US
Treasury to buy cars, boats, homes, etc. But within two years,
people were being indicted and convicted for using this program.
Winston Shrout was a student of the “legal” arguments developed
and advocated by Elvick, and he heavily promoted the “1099-OID”
tax return program that “Dr. Sam Kennedy” and Tim Turner also
began using in 2006. By late 2007 and early 2008, the “1099-OID”
tax return argument was being promoted everywhere by the seminar
gurus.
Convicted pipe-bomber
John
Lloyd Kirk conducted “1099-OID” tax return seminars that
were attended by Arturo Ruiz and Francisco Mendoza. After
attending one of Kirk's seminars, Ruiz and Mendoza went back to
their homes in southern California, formed Old Quest Foundation,
Inc., and got into the “1099-OID” seminar business. Rather than
re-write this story, please read this
article.
This
promotion
resulted in 32 federal
indictments
charging 55 defendants, including a big one against Ruiz,
Mendoza and many others. The
main
indictment was 69 pages long and it charged 19 defendants
with various crimes. Heavy sentences were imposed.
Incidentally, John Lloyd Kirk may have also been the party who
pled
guilty to child sex-abuse charges.