Affidavit #1 Notarized for the OIG Hotline on August 24, 2026; Emailed and Sent Via FedEx to OIG Hotline on Same Date

 

Affidavit #2 Notarized for the OIG Hotline on August 24, 2026; Emailed and Sent Via FedEx to OIG Hotline on Same Date

 

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Recent Emails to the OIG Hotline

 OIG Hotline, please see the following emails sent to the attention of your Office.

Please confirm receipt of the notarized documentation at your earliest convenience.

August 25, 2026

• ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Fwd: Triddell's Sudden Departure, sent at 6:22 PM Mountain Standard Time.
• ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Urgent Concern, sent at 6:20 PM Mountain Standard Time.
• ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Fwd: Title Clerk Approval, sent at 9:40 AM Mountain Standard Time.
• ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Second Notarization, August 25, 2026, sent at 9:28 AM Mountain Standard Time.
• ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: LM Notarized Affidavit, August 25, 2026, sent at 8:37 AM Mountain Standard Time.
• ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Background Information, August 25, 2026, Conditionally Confidential, sent at 7:58 AM Mountain Standard Time.
• ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Fwd: Battling False Claims, sent at 7:55 AM Mountain Standard Time.
• ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Update Regarding August 24, 2026, sent at 7:16 AM Mountain Standard Time.

August 24, 2026

• ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Fwd: Battery Notification, FYI, sent at 11:37 AM Mountain Standard Time.
• ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Updated Notarized Affidavits, August 24, 2026, Confidential, sent at 9:18 AM Mountain Standard Time.
• ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Formal Claim of Awards from August 15, 2026 Until the Current Time, sent at 6:43 AM Mountain Standard Time.
• ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Background Information, August 24, 2026, Conditionally Confidential, sent at 6:33 AM Mountain Standard Time.
• ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Fwd: Battling False Claims, sent at 6:30 AM Mountain Standard Time.
• ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Fwd: Boys, please respond as soon as possible, sent at 6:27 AM Mountain Standard Time.

Formal Claims to Address Awards from August 15, 2026 Until the Current Time

 OIG Hotline, for reasons unknown to me, it seems that I am being prompted to claim awards involving knowingly falsified law enforcement reporting since my formal claim of last week.

Accordingly, please see the following:

To the OIG Hotline of the U.S. DOJ, this letter is to formally claim all awards that have been extended in adjudication of knowingly falsified law enforcement reporting by the FBI and its affiliates between my most recent claim on Saturday, August 15, 2026 and the current time.

This is to include all awards extended in my name and/or associated with my identity and/or social security number as of this writing.  This is to include my maiden name, Carol Elaine Von Herzen, and misspellings of my maiden name, my author name, Lane von Herzen, and misspellings of my author name, and my married name, Lane MacWilliams, and misspellings of my married name.

This is also to include any and all funds extended through adjudication of other cases of knowingly falsified law enforcement reporting by the FBI and its affiliates, if the Supreme Court has ruled that those funds may be legally and ethically claimed and deposited into the Foundation I have designated for the preservation of the sovereignty of the United States.

Due to apparent repeated attempts to misappropriate these funds, please place them in the Foundation at your earliest opportunity, thus protecting them from invasion by those who may seek to personally profiteer from this case.

If government agencies or current or former government officials have facilitated the hacking or invasion of my accounts in order to misappropriate funds awarded to me, I ask that those funds be assertively re-appropriated and replaced.

Please allow me to make designations on behalf of specific causes for the support of Americans' long term sovereignty, and the sovereignty of the nation as a whole, from this umbrella Foundation.

I ask that any funds that have been wrongfully withdrawn and cannot be legally reclaimed be reimbursed to my account under the auspices of the Foundation at the earliest possible time.

Please ensure that my direct participation is required for designations of funds from the Foundation in every circumstance, unless I myself broaden that responsibility at a later time through notarized documentation which I would place on my blog and elsewhere for public review.  And please disallow impersonation of my identity through genetic manipulation, Wifi piracy, namesake or familial claims that are unknown to me and unconsented by me, and/or other unapproved assumptions of my identity.

At the appropriate time, please engage in direct outreach to me to ensure that I can be of the greatest support to the nation at this most critical point in the struggle for the human sovereignty of the American people, the territorial integrity of our national provenance over the United States and associated waters, and the future independence of our nation in its entirety.

Please accept all legal responsibility for the correct and complete filing of documents, paperwork, reporting, exact and comprehensive accounting, and follow up associated with the Foundation and the designations I have made and will make regarding the support for American sovereignty.

Thank you for your support in this most critical effort.

Most sincerely,

Lane MacWilliams

Email to the Public Access Counselor of the Illinois Attorney General's Office

Sent to the Public Access Counselor of the Illinois Attorney General's Office on August 21, 2026 at 10:12 AM Central Time, with a copy sent to the OIG Hotline at 10:15 AM Central Time:

 Dear Public Access Counselor:

I received no communication from your Office pursuant to my August 9, 2026 Request for Review of an improper denial of my FOIA request of the Illinois Secretary of State Police.  Can you please assist me by conveying to me via return email whether followup correspondence was sent regarding this matter?  If so, might your Office provide me with a copy of that correspondence via return email?

Please be aware that U.S. Postal Service mail has been often obstructed regarding my search for records relating to this case, and is unlikely to be reliable if used as the only form of communication.

Redundant efforts to communicate appear to be the most effective, with email being desirable as a traceable means of follow up.

Having said that, I anticipate that files held by the Illinois Secretary of State Police are likely to be false and defamatory.  So with regard to communication of files from that Office, secure, sealed documentation sent to my address, 4200 Conestoga Drive, Suite 102, #212, Springfield, Illinois 62711, is requested, as previously described.

Please be informed that I do need to travel out of the state of Illinois briefly, though I am maintaining a physical residence within Illinois during that time period.  It is my hope and expectation that my FOIA request and Request for Review will remain in full force and effect in an ongoing way.

Thank you very much for your support regarding this matter.

Respectfully,

Lane MacWilliams

Request for Injunctive Relief Re: Restoration of Complete Documentation, August 21, 2026

 OIG Hotline, please consider this a request for injunctive relief regarding documentation pertaining to all aspects of my case.

I have previously asked that the Smithsonian Institution, NPR, and certain individuals of the OIG Hotline's designation be provided with complete documentation regarding my case.  While forged documents and AI-generated information should be marked as such, there should be a commitment to include all information relating to my case against the FBI and its affiliates regarding the commission of knowingly falsified law enforcement reporting.

If I am asked to curate documentation, I will participate in that process.  But in the absence of my direct participation, all information should be made available to the American public in perpetuity.

Due to allegations that the U.S. DOJ may have been directed to delete or redact certain information pertaining to my case, I am asking the Supreme Court to require that your Office provide the Smithsonian Institution, NPR, and designated others with complete documentation, not partial documentation.  All information regarding awards extended in my case should be included within this material, as should all information regarding withdrawals or attempted withdrawals of funds from accounts bearing my name or from Foundation accounts, along with recipients.

Directives to redact, erase or omit information regarding this case should also be incorporated into the documentation of the case as a whole.

The American people have a right to access the details of this matter, and it should not be anyone's prerogative to conceal that information from their examination in perpetuity.

I would also ask that information regarding the initiation of parallel cases of knowingly falsified law enforcement reporting be included in this documentation, so that the public can understand the means by which monetary policy can be implemented through ongoing adjudication of FBI malfeasance.

The insistence of the Supreme Court that the American people should have access to their own history is critical for the preservation of American sovereignty and security over time.

George Orwell observed that "He who controls the past, controls the future."  Yet no one person or group of people should have the power to deprive the public of an understanding of their own past.

Please assist me in asserting the right of the public to review and evaluate complete documentation, including that pertaining to awards and misappropriations in this case, in its entirety.

Thank you for your support regarding this most fundamental assertion of American sovereignty.

Most sincerely,

Lane MacWilliams

American Sovereignty Under Threat: An Update from the Front Lines

1.  What is your current assessment of the conduct of the FBI toward your case?

Answer:  It's worsening, as far as I can ascertain.  The agency appears to be requiring that I sign power of attorney documents supporting an allegation of incapacity in order to sell one or both of my houses.  And this would be a fraudulent assertion, which is simply not going to occur.

Beyond this, they appear to be in complete control of Aura Apartments staff, who have previously profited by perpetrating housing harassment at FBI directive, including participating in signing knowingly false witness statements and allowing unauthorized access to my apartment, with all the attendant risks of the placement of false evidence and false reporting.

The governmental structures that should be preventing these abuses appear to be falling away.  So, our hold on the rule of law within the United States is weakening, and fairly rapidly.

2.  Ordinarily, would the DOJ be preventing these harms?

Answer:  Yes, the U.S. DOJ has the responsibility of setting limits on the FBI's conduct.  At the current time, that's not happening.

3.  Are you continuing to experience harassment within the hotels at which you are staying?

Answer:  Yes, the Dxx deployments are ongoing, alongside other harms.  And I must say, this is truly shameful conduct on the part of the government.  The United States has a responsibility to halt this nonsense with regard to Dxx deployments.  In the future, these will be regarded with horror as the egregious human rights abuses they represent.  And I think that everyone involved in their deployments will have their reputations tarnished permanently by those acts.

4.  Are they technically atrocities?

Answer:  They fall under the heading of torture, so they are atrocities, yes.

5.  What is their origin?  Where are these devices being manufactured?

Answer:  Russia is definitely directing their deployments in certain numbers within the United States, but we are manufacturing them through defense contractors within our own borders.  So, this is really a shameful chapter in American history, and I think it should be exposed as soon as possible.

6.  What are the chances that it can be addressed through investigative journalism?

Answer:  They're quite low, because of the fact that the FBI has liaisons at all the major newspapers.  As a result, any questions about U.S. conduct in this realm are easily suppressed.

7.  So, we've lost a free press.

Answer:  We have, and it's difficult to identify when that line was actually crossed.  But the press at this time is busy encouraging the public to focus on the wrong subjects and reporters are generally asking the wrong questions about current events.  We're just not seeing the competent investigative reporting that in the past held the government to a much higher standard of conduct.

8.  Is the press serving a propaganda function primarily?

Answer:  We're moving in that direction.  The FBI has whole divisions dedicated to propaganda, so we're going to see much more disinformation making its way onto the front page.

9.  What is the FBI's control of Congress at this point?

Answer:  From my perspective, it appears fairly complete.  The FBI appears to be controlling Congressional communications with the public, with a couple of notable exceptions.  Then we see Congressional initiatives that are ostensibly intended to protect public privacy rights that are being co-opted to disqualify votes, presumably with the full knowledge of Congress.  Meanwhile, there are assertions that there are "limits" of some kind on the disqualification of votes, which is a ludicrous idea.

Fundamentally, we're seeing the rise of a political class, which is closely controlled on the whole by security agencies and the military.

Bribery appears to be rampant and accountability at an all-time low.

10.  Is this the fall of the United States as a viable, sovereign nation?

Answer:  This is the pressing question, isn't it?  No one wants to see our nation fall from grace, which is to say, no one wants the United States to come to represent injustice, deceit, bribery, predation, defamation, misogyny, threats, profiteering, and gratuitous murder.

But we need to acknowledge that these are the FBI's priorities, and increasingly, these are becoming manifest in our daily lives.

11.  How can Tom Lyons be defeated in his lies about you?

Answer:  By your asking the question.  Truly.  Tom Lyons becomes very weak when we shine a bright light on his misconduct and his crimes.  So, we need to be doing that all the time.  We need to ask why Tom Lyons is so afraid of acknowledging what he has done to my family members and myself, why he would seek to place false evidence in my residences and on my properties, why he would initiate wrongful prosecutions of the innocent in this case, why he would seek wrongful convictions, why he would ask for unjustified death sentences regarding this case and more.

12.  Why would he have done all of these things?

Answer:  Malignant narcissists are continuously trying to project their own guilt onto the innocent.  So, in general, with people who demonstrate this psychopathology, we're going to see these egregious abuses of power in an escalating way.

13. Where does it lead?

Answer:  We need to understand our history with insight into totalitarianism and its intents in order to answer that question properly.

14.  What will happen to Tom Lyons?

Answer:  I can say with certainty that history will revile him.  But what will happen to him in the current time?

This case represents a contest between truth and lies, honor and dishonor, innocence and guilt, justice and injustice, and Tom Lyons and his associates are on the wrong side of all of these conflicts.

So, I think we need to continue to express our condemnation of his conduct, together with a demand that he meet my standards for apology, remorse, and compensation to the nation as a whole.

15.  Should Tom Lyons be enabled to profiteer from his lies about your family members and yourself?

Answer:  No.  All of those ill-gotten gains need to come back to the Foundation.  Tom Lyons himself should have lawsuits against him from here to the horizon, taking up all of his time in his own defense.  There is no limit to his civil liability regarding the wrongs he has perpetrated against me.  The man should be feeling it.  Daily.

16.  What are the odds that you are going to be provided with reports regarding the FBI's perpetration of knowingly falsified law enforcement reporting?

Answer:  Let's find out.

Is the FBI able to currently withhold all information about its crimes against me by saying that I am too dangerous to know that I am dangerous? (For the record, I'm not dangerous.)

Or is the FBI able to conceal all of its lies by asserting I am too insane to know that I'm insane?  (For the record, I'm not insane.)

We can readily see the tautological flaws in such reasoning.

I think the agency is both ashamed and fearful of exposure regarding the crimes it has committed regarding this case, and I think that sense of disgrace on the part of the FBI is entirely appropriate.

But let's be sure that the FBI is more than ashamed.  Let's be sure that we require it to abandon certain standard operating procedures that are destroying the sovereignty of the nation.

That can only happen if I am provided with reports in a meaningful way.

17.  You need to return to Arizona soon in order to close out an apartment there.  But what are the odds that Tom Lyons has directed that false evidence be placed within that apartment?

Answer:  They're not low.

18.  And what are the odds that any false evidence has been utilized in concealed adjudication within the state of Arizona or federal courts to bring charges against you about which you know nothing?

Answer:  Again, they're not low.

19.  When you return to Arizona, are you returning to a trap laid by Tom Lyons?

Answer:  While I don't know the answer to that question with certainty, I would expect that Tom Lyons has in fact tried to lie his way into setting a trap of this kind.  

We can see for example that the staff of Aura Apartments is behaving strangely in their communications to me, insisting that I return by a certain date, refusing to be reasonable in this discussion.  

And in general, the staff does not strike me as inflexible or unreasonable.

So, I would suspect that Tom Lyons has set some kind of trap, yes.

20.   What might that consist of?

Answer:  The FBI appears to allege that false evidence of some kind has been placed on my furniture, presumably to support wrongful prosecutions of which I know nothing.

21.  Could your life be placed at risk in Arizona as a result of Tom Lyons' lies in this regard?

Answer:  I think my life has already been placed at risk because of Tom Lyons' lies in this regard.  The night before last, I faced down an assassin in the parking lot of the Residence Inn in East Peoria, Illinois for half an hour.  This man had a court order telling him that it was perfectly legal for him to commit first-degree murder, and the FBI had the temerity to convey through my cell phone that he was in need of the payday to commence "a better life."

The entire situation was a shame and a disgrace.

22.  To what extent do the FBI's bribes exacerbate your circumstances?

Answer:  There is a direct association between the FBI's bribery and the risks to my life.  When the FBI pays people off, the agency knows that it cannot be held to account for its intended crimes.  So, immediately following a round of bribery, the FBI's aggression becomes much worse.

23.  Can Tom Lyons be charged criminally?

Answer:  He likely has immunity, and inappropriately so.  But he can be charged civilly, and this kind of prosecution regarding his wrongful conduct needs to be ongoing.

24.  What should be the result of those civil prosecutions?

Answer:  They should impoverish him at the very least.  He should be made an example of so that others within the FBI and among its affiliates will understand that gratuitous abuses of power will lead to individual downfall.

25.  What is your freedom to name Tom Lyons publicly?

Answer:  I don't have any secrecy agreements with the government.  And more than this, I am not obligated to serve as Tom Lyons' willing victim.  

I can take out billboards describing the crimes of Tom Lyons if I so choose, and I well may.

26.  Do you have any sympathy for Tom Lyons' plight, given that he is at risk of being caught for his predatory acts?

Answer:  You cannot have sympathy for psychopaths.  They will kill you over that mistake.

To be clear, I uphold the rule of law for everyone.  Tom Lyons should have the right to an attorney, as should I.  

But it's important to reserve our sympathy for those who have been victimized by the FBI's systems of knowingly falsified law enforcement reporting.

27.  What needs to happen next in order to re-establish your safety and security?

Answer:  Recently misappropriated funds need to be returned to the Foundation, and appeals and requests for injunctive relief need to be filed on my behalf.

And I don't want to be hearing "we lost" regarding anyone who purports to be representing me in court.  It's not possible to lose when you have a defendant as virtuous as I am.  If court initiatives are being lost regarding this case, there is money changing hands.  Let's be honest about that.

28.   Do people need to accept more responsibility for their conduct regarding this case?

Answer:  They do, without question.  There is a problem of "diffuse responsibility," in which a group of people all drop the ball because they assume that others in their sphere are more directly responsible for the outcome.  People need to begin to understand that every individual is 100% accountable for the outcome of this case.  Then, we will begin to see necessary progress.

If fifty adults are standing on the edge of a pool watching a child drown in the deep end, they are not legally required to intervene.  Some among them may be saying "I'm wearing my office clothes, whereas George is wearing a bathing suit.  George should do something." Or, "I know how to swim, but Louise has been a lifeguard previously.  Louise should do something." Or "I have enough money to retire at this point, so I really cannot get involved in other people's problems.  James is still striving in his community.  James should do something."

But the truth is that each of the fifty people standing on the side of the pool is 100% responsible for what happens to that child.

This case is that child, and the life of that child is the life of our nation's sovereignty.

So, people need to view their conduct differently, and start to give this effort the priority it requires.

29.  Will you please keep in close communication with us, given that Tom Lyons' defamation and false allegations against you appear to be ongoing?

Answer:  Of course I will.

30.  Thank you for speaking with us this morning.

Answer:  You are quite welcome.

Lane MacWilliams