OIG Hotline, please see my email communications to your Office today, February 16, 2026. This list will be updated throughout the day:
In a time of knowingly falsified law enforcement reporting about all living Americans, what does it mean when the FBI reaches back to defame the dead?
In my own case, in which the FBI appears to now be engaging in the ignoble business of defaming my deceased parents, it means the agency has been caught in some rather appalling lies about an honorable American family, and they don't want to accept accountability for the years-long deceit of the DOJ, the Congress, the White House, and the Supreme Court.
Yet, when I speak about my parents, I honor them by speaking the truth.
My father was a deeply courteous person, kind, stoic, adventurous, brilliant, wise, determined, courageous, and virtuous. His presence was like a mountain, or the sea, or the truth. You could count on it. There was something monumental in his character, and this quality made people desire to be in his company, to speak with him, to ask his opinion, to follow his guidance.
His standards were impossibly high, but you wanted to meet them, to exceed them, to earn this noble person's admiration, to call him your good friend.
And my mother?
My mother was a force of nature: gifted, knowing, a fierce advocate for the vulnerable, a sacred person. Music followed her everywhere she went. So did books, flowers, adoring children, school teachers, opera singers, scientists, politicians, and ministers. My mother was not only the life of the party. She was life itself. She judged others not on the basis of their power, but on the basis of their hearts and minds and intent. My mother was accustomed to doing the impossible so frequently that others began to expect it of her. I know I did.
You wanted to be by her side to see what would happen next. Because it was going to be astonishing, and it was going to be miraculous, and it was going to change your life.
Once, a stranger followed her through an airport, demanding an autograph.
"You're somebody! You're somebody!" the woman insisted.
"Yes, I am somebody," my mother laughed.
My parents were formidable people, leaders, people who changed their part of the world by walking into it. They were determined to make a positive difference for others, and they did.
And now, I stand in defense of their memories.
Richard Pierre Von Herzen and Janice Elaine Von Herzen.
Thank you for your irreplaceable kindness, courage, integrity, discovery, art, inspiration, depth, brilliance, insight, leadership, and teaching.
Thank you for your goodness.
Thank you for the soulfulness that informed your accomplishments.
Thank you for your ever-present belief in your daughter.
Your wisdom still guides me every day of my life.
That's a legacy that I hope will make a difference to countless others.
I honor you with the truth about your lives, and that honor will continue.
I cannot be paid or threatened to abandon it, because the truth about your lives cannot be killed or suppressed or betrayed.
So, too, the truth about the living cannot be killed or suppressed or betrayed.
Good Americans, do we need the FBI's knowingly falsified law enforcement reporting in order to diminish what we know about one another?
No, we do not.
Does the FBI need to maintain its programs of knowingly falsified law enforcement reporting in order to meet its mission and objectives?
Again, no.
Will our future be elevated, enriched, or expanded because we allowed the FBI to gratuitously defame the living and the dead, our neighbors, friends, family, and associates?
In no measure.
The truth does not have to be a casualty of this moment in history, nor does our insistence on our own virtue, or our gratitude toward those who came before us.
So, I invite the FBI's South Bay Chief of Station to a conversation about my honorable parents. A peaceable conversation. A respectful conversation. And one in which his accountants explain themselves.
Our origins cannot be reduced to institutional defamation, desecration of property, or diminishment of the leaders among us.
And while not all truths must be spoken at all times, this one does.
An abandonment of our parents' virtue is nothing less than an abandonment of our own.
For if we cannot speak to their own goodness, who, then, will speak for ours?
Lane MacWilliams
OIG Hotline, please see the following emails sent to your Office today, February 15, 2026. Please note that this list will be updated throughout the day.
OIG Hotline, please see the following emails sent to your Office on February 14, 2026.
OIG Hotline, please see the following emails sent to your Office today, February 13, 2026:
OIG Hotline, please be apprised that my VPN (VPN 360) has been deleted from my MacBook Air without my participation or consent. My attempts to re-access my account in order to reinstall this software are currently being blocked.
The same VPN (VPN 360) installed on my iPhone had been disconnected without my participation or consent.
Under the current circumstances, it appears that the FBI's intent is that of misappropriating my IP in order to engage in online impersonation through both devices.
Certainly, I have no control whatsoever over the illegal actions of FBI personnel or affiliates who possess "mirror phones" or "mirror laptops" and are navigating the internet in my guise.
This is to reconfirm that all of my conduct, communications, activities, Netflix/cable/tv/computer viewing of photos, written content and film, and cell phone and computer use and content have been and continue to be lawful and honorable in every way, shape and form, reflecting the highest character and integrity in every setting and at all times.
I will endeavor to replace my VPN as soon as possible.
In the meantime, I appreciate your advocacy in ensuring that no false reporting utilizing online impersonation can result in harm to my family members, my pets, my household, my properties, my vehicles or myself.
Thank you for your support regarding this important concern.
Most sincerely,
Lane MacWilliams
OIG Hotline, the FBI appears to be extending an allegation that funds awarded in my name and/or affiliated with my identity are at risk of being misappropriated by wrongful authorization, through the flawed argument that my birth name and my married name are not the same.
Both my husband and I have made clear, within separate documents, that my birth name, my author name, and my married name refer to the same person. The IRS knows that my Social Security number is the same under my birth name, my author name, and my married name. So does the U.S. DOJ.
Likewise, misspellings of my name are linked to my Social Security number as the common identifier pertaining to this case.
Transparency, accountability, honesty and professionalism are all required at this juncture.
I could just as easily disqualify myself from receiving certain funds if I undertake a formal name-change procedure as I could mitigate any risk of misappropriation of funds awarded in my name on behalf of the long term human rights of all Americans.
So, I would simply ask for direct communication from the OIG Hotline if there is any need for me to undertake a legal proceeding regarding my name and my supporting documentation.
I'm certain that the Attorney General Pam Bondi does not want to be remembered by the American public as an official who authorized the theft of funds intended to safeguard their long term human rights. Further, I'm sure that President Trump does not wish to be known through history's long gaze as a President who misappropriated funds intended to defend our most fundamental sovereignty as Americans.
So, let's ensure that the record reflects the honesty and integrity of all those who are striving on my family's behalf and my own, alongside the long term future of the nation as a whole.
Please reach out to me with any specific guidance regarding this matter.
I appreciate your ongoing advocacy in every detail.
Most sincerely,
Lane MacWilliams
OIG HOTLINE, please see the following emails, sent to your Office today, February 12, 2026. Please note that this list is not complete:
