Came across this case in court records. An incarcerated person has been labeled as a sovereign citizen which in prison, gets you formally disciplined. He tried to dispute that label. After reading about the company, he hired to assist him with legal services, he seems to have a legitimate case. Rather, it appears the company tried sovereign citizen tactics with the court on his behalf. Unfortunately, his appeal to no longer be labeled as a sovereign citizen was rejected.
I am including the claim by the prisoner below.
The Marshall Project wrote about the company back in 2019. They wrote: “One such organization, calling itself Omega-17 LLC, has offered prisoners a way out through this “bond” process since at least 2010, asking for an initial fee of $4,000, according to documents obtained by The Marshall Project. The group’s founder claims it is no longer operating. The fine print of a company mailer noted that they “are NOT attorneys and are NOT giving legal or tax advice….[they] are making no claims of correctness, functionality, results, either positive and/or negative.” Federal court records show judges have thrown out motions filed by the founder as “frivolous” and having no basis in the law.”
Interestingly, they still seem to be operating. The case I found was from a few days ago.
The woman who used to run the company has a daughter (Diane Renee Erdmann) who was on the run for a Ponzi scheme. She, along with her husband, Bernard Ross Hansen, were convicted on dozens of charges stemming from a Ponzi scheme they employed which defrauded the company’s customers of millions of dollars. They went on the run for 11 days but were eventually captured on May 10, 2022.
Also interesting is that some people are claiming that the woman who ran Omega-17 LLC believe that she faked her death. They say she owes them money and cannot find proof that she died.
Someone seems to be running the company!