OIG Hotline, I would redact proper names below, except for the fact that it is possible that I am still being accused by the FBI and its affiliates of malfeasance of which I have no knowledge. Under such circumstances, and without investigative reports or contact from an honorable intermediary, the risks are simply too great for me to remain silent about the identities of the individuals who have committed the most egregious wrongs concerning this case.
If immediate and honorable outreach occurs, and if my court filing is respectfully and appropriately handled, then and only then, my filings can be removed from my blog, not before.
Accompanying my petition was a copy of my lease, my diriver's license, my social security card, my birth certificate, my marriage certificate, documentation from my husband, and limited real estate POA's, along with general background concerning my parents, children, husband, birth place, birth date, known assets, etc. The inclusion of my passport appears to have been wrongfully obstructed, so I will need to add it to my petition as soon as possible.
Most sincerely,
Lane MacWilliams
May 4, 2026
To the Honorable Judge assigned to preside over my request to change my name from Carol Elaine Von Herzen to Lane MacWilliams:
I am a current resident of Coconino County, Arizona, as you see from my materials included herewith.
It is important that you know that I am a human rights advocate in a federal case pertaining to the FBI’s commission of knowingly falsified law enforcement reporting against the law-abiding American public. This case has been, and continues to be, adjudicated before the Supreme Court with the support of the Office of the Inspector General Hotline of the U.S. Department of Justice.
I have assiduously and continuously sought complete documentation of corrupt law enforcement’s perpetration of knowingly falsified law enforcement reporting through Freedom of Information Act requests and state public information act requests, and have been provided with some interesting proofs of this apparently wide-scale problem.
Through a provision of documents required of the FBI from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence several years ago, I learned that a corrupt local Sheriff’s Deputy, Rick Chaput, in San Mateo County, California, where I lived at the time, took a stalking report from my husband and myself only to proceed to refer me – unbeknownst to me or any of my family members – to “Adult Protective Services,” apparently with the intention of justifying extensive and ongoing surveillance of my entire family and myself.
Later, when I spoke to an employee of a women’s shelter in Sacramento in the course of my research on this issue, she disclosed to me that many women in California were denied requests for information about stalking complaints through the Freedom of Information Act and the California Public Records Act.
In other words, it appeared that there was a pattern of local law enforcement within California withholding public information requested by stalking victims – and whether these women were suffering stalking from law enforcement affiliates is unclear – and further, in speaking to women’s shelter staffing, it appeared that many of these women believed that they were being improperly surveilled as part of this problem.
Were many of them being referred to Adult Protective Services with false statements from law enforcement questioning their mental health, as apparently had occurred in my case?
This appears to be a distinct possibility, given that the vast majority of my requests for information through the Freedom of Information Act, as well as an international background check I ran (at a cost of several thousand dollars), including a fingerprint scan, addressing any and all records within the United States and other countries to which I had traveled (Canada, France, Portugal, Zimbabwe, and Zaire) were returned to me as blank.
As part of this quest, I should disclose that several years ago, a corrupt FBI official named Tom Lyons apparently tried to force me to sell my family home on Cape Cod. Allegedly the FBI skims several percentage points off the realtors’ commissions in forced sales of the properties of “targets of interest,” and this scheme is treated as a kind of “profit-sharing” sideline within the agency.
If I refused to sell, Tom Lyons appeared to threaten to drive the value of my home to zero through undisclosed means. (It was unclear whether my main residence in San Mateo County, California was also included in this apparent threat.)
I did refuse to sell, and, subsequently, appeared to receive threats that my family home on Cape Cod had been treated as a staged crime scene of some kind by the FBI, with Tom Lyons leading all crimes related to this conduct. Falsified DNA evidence was reported to be part of this staging, though I have received no verified communication regarding this issue.
I have received myriad apparent threats regarding the matter of the saleability of both of my homes due to reported predatory acts directed by Tom Lyons, along with his reported close affiliate in Russian organized crime, a man named Brandan Pesa.
And, as it happens, my husband now wishes to sell our Portola Valley (San Mateo County, CA) home and to assist with the sale of my family’s Cape Cod property at this time. (My own personal view is that the attempt to list and sell one or both of our properties should force the hand of the FBI to reveal any and all false accusations regarding these homes and their affiliated land. So, I am now in favor of this development. Please note that, as Tom Lyons appears to have been recently cornered on this issue, he is alleged to be casting false blame for serious crimes upon my virtuous and honorable parents, now deceased, Janice Elaine Von Herzen and Richard Pierre Von Herzen. They are not here to defend themselves, so I continue to defend their laudable character and integrity throughout their lifetimes.)
At this point, I have taken on the role of advocating for the long term human rights of all Americans, because it has been alleged that the U.S. DOJ has extended very large sums as awards against FBI malfeasance in my case.
The problem seems to be that false accusations are regularly filed against me in a concealed manner, and misappropriations are regularly drawn from accounts in my name, thus perpetuating a process of significant graft by certain top government officials.
For the record, I have difficulty taking my dogs for a walk without being besieged by “witnesses” who are alleged to later file false claims about the lawfulness of my communications, my cell phone screen, whether my dogs are aggressive (definitely not), and more.
Often, false reports are alleged to pertain to the well-worn misogynistic tropes of mental instability and promiscuity. (Female targets of interest are alleged to be delusional, lacking the capacity for self-care, a danger to the public, and voraciously sexualized and predatory toward others, including minors.)
For your own knowledge, I do not suffer and have never suffered from mental illness. I happen to have had only one intimate partner over my lifetime, that of my husband of thirty-five years. I own no weapons, although I do use kitchen utensils while cooking in the kitchen. I have threatened no one and I never will threaten anyone. I am protective toward others, both vulnerable and hearty members of the public, respecting others’ human rights at all times and in all settings. And I am an entirely peaceable, honorable, and law-abiding person.
I am undertaking this request for a name change because it has been alleged that the current Executive Branch intends to direct the misappropriation of all awards in this case through the Office of the Inspector General Hotline of the U.S. Department of Justice on the basis of the discrepancy between my birth certificate, which reads Carol Elaine Von Herzen, and my current identification (driver’s license, passport, social security card, etc.) which reads Lane MacWilliams.
So, I would like to have a court order that renders my name, Lane MacWilliams, official, in order to protect my human rights advocacy and the support for the American public that I intend to continue to render.
As part of this name change application, there is a question about whether I have ever been accused of a felony or convicted of a felony. I have no proof that either has occurred, but I suspect that my case at the federal level has been exploited for the profiteering of top elected officials for a prolonged period of time, to include knowingly false accusations followed by presumed exoneration on an ongoing basis.
For your additional information, my husband is alleged by the FBI to have been falsely accused of “espionage” activity, and my sons are alleged to have been forcibly recruited into a corrupt government program, which I will redact here as the Pxxxxxx Program, involving intentional harm toward the public, directed by federal agencies. My older son appears to be falsely reported upon in the categories of “illegal weapons trafficking” and “terrorism.” And my younger son appears to be falsely reported upon in the categories of “drug trafficking,” “failing to register as a foreign agent,” and other crimes. Both of them have reportedly suffered human trafficking by their respective agencies (the FBI in the case of my younger son and an affiliate agency in the case of my older son), shock treatment, near-drowning, food and water deprivation, sovereignty violations, directives to cause harm to others, and other injuries in the demand for knowingly falsified witness statements about our family.
Unfortunately, the FBI’s abuse of our family members, colleagues and friends does not appear to stop with my sons, but allegedly extends to my daughter in law, my brother, my uncle, my aunt, my ministers, and many other family members, friends, colleagues and associates – all in the quest for knowingly false witness statements which are intended to bolster false FBI claims, apparently originating with Tom Lyons and his close affiliate Brandan Pesa.
However, I would like to point out that false reporting about the American public appears to represent widespread policy for the FBI, and my case – while uniquely egregious in its abuses by the agency – is part of an apparent larger effort by the FBI to create a dossier of false reporting which wrongfully implicates every American citizen, including minors, of wrongdoing that could serve to justify their harm.
The FBI often likes to state that it needs falsified law enforcement reporting because of the pressures of global concerns relating to a climate crisis which is much more severe than has been acknowledged by public officials.
But my contention is that the FBI wants falsified law enforcement reporting in order to exert control over the financial, social, professional, educational, and medical spheres of the American public’s personal lives. The agency does not need it to fulfill its mission and objectives.
And further, there is no plan to sunset programs of knowingly falsified law enforcement reporting. These false dossiers, increasingly AI-generated, will be created, aggregated, and disseminated in perpetuity unless insightful and insistent advocates such as myself object at this juncture with clarity, principle and determination on behalf of the nation as a whole.
The American people cannot defend themselves against lies they cannot examine.
Therefore, I respectfully request that you communicate with the Office of the Inspector General Hotline of the U.S. Department of Justice regarding my name change request.
You will certainly receive extensive communication from the FBI, regardless.
At issue is whether or not the FBI’s false reporting will be loaded into the publicly accessible court records associated with my name change request, information which I have been repeatedly denied despite my assiduous efforts to obtain it.
What are my thoughts about this juncture?
I would ask that the Honorable Judge involved in this case speak with me directly about the alternatives.
I am not hiring an attorney to handle this matter, because the FBI has used attorneys in the past to communicate misleading counsel. So, I would rather that this issue be handled more directly.
Do I wish to be defamed by the FBI by AI-generated films, photos, false witness statements and wrongful accusations in the public record when I have been deprived of all of this information through my lawful requests?
No one would want such an outcome.
Having said that, if this is the only way to force the FBI to disclose the problem of knowingly falsified law enforcement reporting against the honorable American public, it might be a viable tool for change in the course of my advocacy.
Your Honor should know that I currently have an Arizona Public Records Act request with the Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes’ Office, with documentation pending.
Attorney General Mayes will come under extraordinary pressure as part of this request, as will, regrettably, you yourself.
My recommendation for mitigating that pressure is to move quickly and decisively, and to involve me in the decision-making.
The longer an individual waits regarding a critical matter pertaining to knowingly falsified law enforcement reporting by the FBI, the greater the opportunity for the FBI to threaten and bribe family members, friends, and associates.
So, delay is the enemy for good people combating false reporting by the FBI.
And communication with the investigators of integrity within the Office of the Inspector General Hotline of the U.S. Department of Justice (oig.hotline@usdoj.gov) is key. (Please note that the Hotline is distinct from the standard OIG of the U.S. DOJ.)
Thank you for allowing me to provide this background, your Honor, and I look forward to the opportunity to speak with you about this circumstance, if you feel that is most appropriate.
Respectfully,
Lane MacWilliams
