Nigger dad and his nigger daughter got millions from IRS after claiming to win lottery, authorities say

[Dave Cross]

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A Broward County father and daughter claimed the government owed
them $175 million in tax refunds on their lottery winnings. The
IRS paid them $3.4 million before the agency realized the pair
had never purchased a winning ticket, prosecutors say.

Now, the pair, who say they’re “aboriginal indigenous Moorish
Americans” immune to government authority, are on trial in a
Palm Beach federal courtroom accused of tax fraud.

Court documents allege that Danielle Takeila Edmonson, 35, of
Boynton, and Kenneth Roger Edmonson, 51, of Oakland Park, began
filing a series of bogus tax returns in 2015.

That year, prosecutors allege, Danielle Edmonson claimed an
unspecified amount of lottery winnings, and managed to get the
IRS to pay her $239,700. With her allegedly ill-gotten refunds,
Danielle Edmonson bought a BMW and took out $60,000 from the
bank in cash.

The following year, the woman — who court filings describe as a
master’s in business graduate — decided to ask the IRS to pay
her over $80 million in returns on over $141 million of supposed
income.

“Your demand has no legal validity and is not payable through
any federal agency," the IRS replied in a letter quoted in court
documents. “Your scheme appears to be akin to a fraud."

But the revenue service’s remonstrance didn’t slow Dainelle
Edmonson. The following year, 2016, she got almost $2.5 million
out of the agency in what prosecutors allege are fraudulent
filings. And the following year, 2017, she asked for $9 million.

Court documents explain that the IRS paid her father three
quarters of a million dollars in 2018 in what prosecutors allege
was a similar scheme.

Agents for the IRS raided Kenneth Edmonson’s home in March 2018,
but the raid did not apparently keep him from filing a second
fraudulent amended return soon after, according to the
allegations in court documents.

Court filings made by Danielle Edmonson after her March 2019
arrest give a hint as to the duo’s possible motivations.

“I am an aboriginal indigenous Moorish American national,” she
wrote in a handwritten motion from jail demanding hundreds of
millions of dollars from the government as restitution for her
allegedly unjust imprisonment.

Identifying herself as Moorish Sovereign Citizen in the filings,
Danielle Edmonson demanded her immediate release and claimed
"nothing stands between myself and the creator.”

The Southern Poverty Law Center, a nonprofit that tracks
American extremist groups, describes Moorish Sovereign Citizens
as a small sect that believes “African Americans constitute an
elite class within American society with special rights and
privileges that convey on them a sovereign immunity placing them
beyond federal and state authority.”

A website for a New York group apparently affiliated with the
movement lays out the group’s beliefs: “Governments are
corporations / companies that have no ‘authority’ over natural
flesh and blood beings,” the website claims.

Federal courts have repeatedly rejected claims of immunity made
by sovereign citizens.

Kenneth Edmonson’s belief in his own “sovereign immunity” has
already brought him into conflict with U.S. District Judge Robin
L. Rosenberg.

The fez-wearing man was held in contempt of court on Monday
morning, and he and his daughter listened in to jury selection
by video conference after being removed from the courtroom by
U.S. Marshals.

If convicted, the father-daughter pair face a maximum sentence
of 20 years in prison each for mail fraud, and five years in
prison for lying on government filings.

Opening arguments in the jury trial are scheduled for Tuesday
afternoon, and the trial is expected to last three days.

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