My Third Novel's Conclusion, My Heartbreak

My heart begins to break when I think about completing this particular book -- because this narrative has sustained me like no other story I've known. It's both more personal and more universal than my other works. But beyond memory and archetype, it's a cri-de-coeur about needing to become the person one is destined to be. And in the writing, I have met my own life's work, my own fated journey -- having the sense all the while that the pages are suffused with a resonance, an energy, an electrified field that defies explanation. Writers hope and pray to be overtaken by a work in this way -- to be conscripted into passionate service of a profound story. To experience it even once in a lifetime seems a great privilege. I still have several months before this novel is complete, and this constitutes my reprieve. Because I'm not ready for the beauty to end.




Saturday, August 15, 2026

Formal Claim of All Awards Pertaining to Knowingly Falsified Law Enforcement Reporting

 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 at this 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

Recent Emails to the OIG HOTLINE

 OIG Hotline, please see the following emails sent to the attention of your Office.  Please note that this list is not complete.

August 16, 2026:

  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Fwd: My Support for You Is Always Present, Conditionally Confidential, sent at 12:07 PM Central Time.
  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Fwd: Battling False Claims, sent at 11:19 AM Central Time.
  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Background Information, August 16, 2026, Conditionally Confidential, sent at 11:14 AM Central Time.
  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Update, August 16, 2026, sent at 11:06 AM Central Time.

August 15, 2026:

  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Formal Claim of All Awards Pertaining to Knowingly Falsified Law Enforcement Reporting, sent at 4:24 PM Central Daylight Time.

When Children Are Ordered to Lie: Should the United States Emulate a North Korean Stratagem to Allow FBI Misappropriations?

1. You have previously stated that every single American has a dossier of false reporting from the FBI.  Does that include children?

Answer:  It does, yes.  And we really need to pause here for a moment to understand the seriousness of the mistake when a society decides to commence institutional lying about children from birth.

2.  What form might those lies take?

Answer:  Any form at all, because the information is increasingly AI-generated.  The point is that it doesn't have to be true.  Does your child ask the wrong question in front of an Amazon Echo?  They could be classified as psychologically aberrant, and that information is aggregated.  Does your teenager swear in front of friends?  They could be viewed as having an anger disorder. That information is logged.  Does your child pick the wrong topic or the wrong perspective if he or she is studying the Civil Rights Movement in American history class?  That writing may be interpreted as subversive, and that information is made part of the permanent record.  But in addition, if your child uses social media, he or she is being documented as taking part in chat groups he or she has never heard of, as engaging in dialogue (actually AI-generated) that could be viewed as dangerous to the public interest, as extending threats toward others (also AI-generated) that your child never expressed, etc.

3.  Yet, aren't our children innocent?

Answer:  Yes, our children are innocent.  This is what we need to now assert and this is what we need to be expressing to our children on an ongoing basis.

All children will ask questions.  All children will be curious about the world.  All children will have developmental anomalies that don't fit a standard time table. 

Einstein had a serious depression at the age of fifteen or sixteen.  How tolerant would we be of that setback at this point in our history?

4.  What happens when our children are confronted with the dossiers of false reporting the FBI has aggregated about them?

Answer:  If the FBI reveals documentation that could result in charges or arrest, then the agency is seeking coercion, false witness statements implicating family members or friends, human trafficking compromise, drug trafficking, weapons trafficking, and more.

5.  Haven't your own young adult sons been given Executive Orders to sign knowingly false witness statements?

Answer:  The FBI appears to allege that they have, yes.

6.  And what do those knowingly false witness statements allege?

Answer:  The FBI appears to suggest that they contain the usual misogynist tropes of promiscuity and/or mental illness.

7.  The FBI and its affiliates, including the Executive Branch, are forcing your sons to sign this documentation containing defamatory statements about you?

Answer:  This is the allegation, yes.

8.  For the purpose of theft on the part of this administration?

Answer;  I cannot comment on the amount of funds that may have been misappropriated on this basis.  But avarice seems to be a powerful motivator in this case, certainly.

9.  Has the FBI suggested that you should accept the defamation in this instance?

Answer:  The FBI has always suggested that I should accept the agency's defamation, including this instance.

10.  What is your willingness to be called unstable by an agency that is attempting to steal from accounts bearing your name?

Answer:  Zero.  The FBI's defamation is a prelude to murder in each and every case.  In my situation, one in which I am advocating for the sovereignty of many Americans, no defamation can be viewed as acceptable or tolerable.

11.  The FBI is currently urging you to "resign."  What does that mean?  Have you had any direct communication from anyone affiliated with the government?

Answer:  None.  I did receive a mostly redacted report from the FBI at the insistence of the ODNI several years ago, which demonstrated that the FBI was wrongfully referring complainants to Adult Protective Services in order to justify their ongoing surveillance.

But other than this, I have received no substantive provision of documentation.

12.  Is that about to change with your FOIA request to the State of Illinois?

Answer:  I don't know.  I was supposed to receive notification from the Public Access Counselor yesterday about their decision to force the Secretary of State Police to provide me with documentation.

13.  Did you receive any email regarding this decision?

Answer:  I did not have it in my gmail inbox, no.  Having said that, the FBI often erases critical emails from my inbox.  So, it's entirely possible that it was sent to me.

Given that the FBI appears now to suggest that I will be shot if I don't "resign," it seems likely that there is a missing email communication.

14.  What is your perspective on your circumstances as they now stand?

Answer:  I would certainly like to learn what the Public Access Counselor has to say.

15.  And what about the false accusations your sons are allegedly being ordered to sign?

Answer:  It is indefensible for any part of the United States government to be directing family members to lie about family members.

That's North Korean gulag territory.

That does not reflect worthy American conduct.

16.  Will your sons correct the record soon enough?

Answer:  They will, without doubt.  But the funds associated with this case need to be protected from misappropriation in the interim.

17.  Will you please remain in close communication with us today, given these unprecedented circumstances?

Answer:  Yes, of course.

18.  Thank you for speaking with us this morning.

Answer:  You are most welcome.

Lane MacWilliams


Thursday, August 13, 2026

Did Chase Bank Defame a Customer Seeking a Notarization on Behalf of the American Interest?

 OIG Hotline, I will share the information below with Illinois officials this morning in order to be certain that they remain fully informed.

I did ask Chase Bank officer Dwayne Keith Ticer if I had his permission to audio record or video record the notarization process, and he refused.  If, following this, false audio and false video were produced in a defamatory initiative by the FBI, that certainly points out the extreme imbalance in the public's right to record themselves and the FBI's right to lie about them through AI-generated disinformation.

This is to confirm that my conversation with Mr. Ticer was cordial, polite, respectful and professional in every regard.

Mr. Ticer did comment for an inordinate period of time about how children in their teens and twenties seemed to be constantly staring at their phones.  This appeared to be a non-sequitur, unrelated to anything we had discussed previously.

And it's worth pointing out that eye contact during a banking meeting, which was appropriate in this case, is much less important than honesty and integrity.

Please note that Mr. Ticer's original documentation misspelled my last name as Lane Macwilliams, with a lowercase "w," and when I pointed this out to him, he recreated the document from the beginning and voided the original.

Given the number of times the FBI appears to have directed this exact error recently, Mr. Ticer's identical misspelling did not appear accidental.

At the conclusion of our meeting, he removed the original documentation for shredding.

While I am not able to file a complaint with Chase Bank, it is appropriate for me to request an injunction against false reporting by Chase Bank in this instance.

Given the sensitivity of my FOIA request, and the importance of its timely fulfillment, an order of injunctive relief will place a stay on further defamation by the FBI and its affiliates -- a buffer against further falsehoods that appears to be necessary at this time.

Please be informed that, immediately following the notarization at Chase Bank, I was followed closely by a BMW sedan, the driver of which was following my (lawful) U-turns to evade him for a certain time period.

Together with this, the FBI was extending threats of my being shot by a small caliber weapon, potentially wielded by a woman, in a "contract" assault.

This leads me to wonder whether the bank officers involved may have falsely asserted that I extended threats of some kind that could have justified immediate violence and further whether false AI-generated documentation of an interaction that never took place was created by the FBI and its affiliates, and wrongfully supported for pay by the Mr. Ticer.

The public has no defense against this sort of collusive malfeasance.

Yet the American people as a whole should not have to suffer if Mr. Ticer accepted a payoff or if other employees at the same Chase Bank branch joined in.

Please assist me in ensuring that Chase Bank not obstruct the interests of Americans by contributing to the knowingly falsified law enforcement reporting of the FBI and its affiliates in this instance.

If Chase Bank employees have acted wrongfully in this instance, Americans' long term access to sovereignty should not suffer through withheld documentation of FBI misconduct.

Thank you for your intervention in this important matter.

Most sincerely,

Lane MacWilliams




Sent to Chase Bank Customer Satisfaction on August 12, 2026 at 8:03 PM.


Dear Chase Bank: 

This communication is to confirm that today, August 12, 2026. I visited your Champaign, Illinois branch on 301 S. Mattis Ave. in order to have a personal affidavit notarized by bank officer, Dwayne Keith Ticer. 

Because I am a human rights advocate involved in an important federal case, I need to provide general affidavits regarding my lawfulness and integrity on a fairly regular basis to the US Department of Justice. Having said that, the government agency which feels most implicated by this case often pressures notaries, including bank officers, to file false witness statements regarding my capacity, my cogency, and my state of mind pertaining to notarizations. Sometimes, the agency involved will produce knowingly falsified video within a few hours of these appointments, depicting me engaged in dialogue or actions that never took place.  AI generated video and audio is now sufficiently sophisticated that this material is credible and rapidly produced.  

Having said that, when I walk into Chase Bank as a customer, I expect truthfulness and integrity in all of my interactions, including any and all witness statements that may be collected afterwards.

Today, as every day, my interactions with Chase Bank staff, including Mr. Ticer, were respectful, cordial, polite, and professional in every way, shape, and form. 

While Mr. Ticer was able to provide me with an individual acknowledgment appended to my affidavit, he did not request that I sign his logbook, a step which is ordinarily required by every notary when documenting an authorization process in person. Without this critical step, in-person notarizations cannot be considered complete.  

This omission, in and of itself, represents a significant indicator that Mr. Ticer may have been wrongfully influenced by a third-party pertaining to my notarization process. 

Correspondingly, Mr. Ticer is highly likely to be asked to sign a falsified witness statement regarding this notary appointment. 

As follow up, I called Chase Bank customer service this evening and spoke to Rahul on a recorded line, with a separate recording also conducted and pre-announced by me, to document this circumstance.  He extended helpful guidance, and acknowledged the courtesy, cogency, and respectful tenor of all aspects of our phone conversation. 

In addition, I am following up with this written communication to suggest that Chase Bank direct Mr. Ticer to support only the truth about our notary appointment today. 

Again, the omission of Mr. Ticer’s request for my signature in his logbook serves as a strong indication that he may have been directed a priori to corrupt the notarization process. 

Given this problem, I will now need to seek duplicate notarization of my affidavit, representing substantial delay and attendant risks to my legal case advocating for the long term human rights of all Americans. 

I will appreciate Chase Bank’s withdrawal of any and all falsified documents and information regarding my visit to Chase Bank today. 

Certainly, there is no business model for a consumer bank which engages in active defamation of its customers, and correspondingly contributes to  the harm that may follow as a direct consequence. 

I look forward to your outreach concerning the resolution of this matter. 

Please note that this communication does not constitute a complaint, and should not be listed as a complaint. The reason for this is that any complaint can be found fraudulent if accompanied by improper information from any source, and fraud constitutes a felony offense which could damage my human rights advocacy. 

I appreciate your strict observation of my request regarding this point. 

Thank you very much for your support. 

Sincerely yours,

Lane MacWilliams 

Wednesday, August 12, 2026

Recent Emails to the OIG Hotline

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

August 14, 2026

  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: I Did Not Sign Replacement Real Estate POA Documentation Requested By My Husband's Hxxxxxx, sent at 12:40 PM Central Daylight Time.
  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: When Children Are Ordered to Lie:  Should the United States Emulate a North Korean Stratagem to Allow FBI Misappropriations, sent at 11:36 AM Central Daylight Time.
  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Strange Behavior from Bxxxxxx Front Desk Staff, sent at 11:17 AM Central Daylight Time.
  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Fwd: Boys, please respond as soon as possible, sent at 10:58 AM Central Daylight Time.
  • ATTN: OIG HOTLNE Re: Fwd: Battling False Claims, sent at 9:40 AM Central Daylight Time.
  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Background Information, August 15, 2026, Conditionally Confidential, sent at 9:36 AM Central Daylight Time.
  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Fwd: Thank you for shopping at Walgreens, sent at 7:59 AM Central Daylight Time.
  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Update, August 15, 2026, 7:53 AM Central Daylight Time.

August 13, 2026

ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Fwd: R

  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Battling False Claims, sent at 8:57 AM Central Daylight Time.
  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Background Information, August 13, 2026, Conditionally Confidential, sent at 8:54 AM Central Daylight Time.
  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Request for Honorable Withdrawal of Any Improper FedEx Incident Report, sent at 8:12 AM Central Daylight Time.
  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Update Re: August 12/13, 2026, sent at 7:28 AM Central Daylight Time.
  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Fwd: Boys, please respond as soon as possible, sent at 6:45 AM Central Daylight Time.
  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Did Chase Bank Defame a Customer Seeking a Notarization on Behalf of the American Interest?, sent at 5:46 AM Central Daylight Time.



August 12, 2026

  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Fwd: Battling False Claims, sent at 8:10 AM Central Daylight Time.
  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Background Information, August 12, 2026, Conditionally Confidential, sent at 8:08 AM Central Daylight Time.
  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Update, August 11/12, 2026, Conditionally Confidential, sent at 7:48 AM Central Daylight Time.
  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Fwd: ATTN: Hilton Honors... sent at 6:31 AM Central Daylight Time.

Tuesday, August 11, 2026

Requesting Support from the OIG Hotline Regarding Safety and Security

OIG Hotline, there is allegedly a plan on the part of corrupt law enforcement affiliates to perpetrate an assault toward me of some kind when I venture in to public today, August 11, 2026.  

Accordingly, I hereby disclose that I communicated via email at 2:03 PM today to Sangamon County State Attorney John Milhauser, Sangamon County Sheriff Paula Crouch, and Springfield Police Chief Joseph Behl, with a subject heading of Request for Intervention Re: Apparent Law Enforcement Retaliation to Request for Review by the Public Access Counselor of the Illinois Attorney General's Office.  The email was copied to the Public Access Counselor of the Illinois Attorney General's Office, the Governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker, and your Office, the OIG Hotline of the U.S. Department of Justice.

I have asked that all false reporting connected to August 9, 2026 be immediately withdrawn so that my Request for Review by the Public Access Counselor of the Illinois Attorney General's Office be allowed to require provision of my FOIA documentation in its entirety through the Illinois Secretary of State Police.

As a result of these extraordinary attempts by the FBI to obstruct the lawful provision of my FOIA materials, I will appreciate the efforts of everyone involved to ensure my safety and security while I await that fulfillment.  If an injunction is required to provide the necessary protection, I will appreciate your support in the request and provision of that necessary defense.

Thank you very much for your critical engagement regarding this important matter.

Most sincerely,

Lane MacWilliams

Allocation for the Support of American Journalism

OIG Hotline, over the last ten years, the United States has lost a myriad of journalistic sources that can be considered truly independent.  Many newspapers and news stations have been acquired by larger conglomerates only to be shuttered.  The result has been the closure of many local news sources and an increasing dearth of investigative journalism.


Let's do what we can to counter that development.

I would like to endow a separate foundation, the sole purpose of which is to nurture the founding of new independent news sources and to reward high level independent journalism as it appears in the public sphere.

These news organizations, while they may have a national reach, should be primarily focused on the highest quality of regional reporting possible.  Having said that, those independent journalists who are reaching to comprehend national or global impacts of emerging issues are to be recognized as critical to the public interest.

The press foundation should seek to give prizes to those journalists demonstrating the most courage and commitment to the highest level of journalism for the American people.

The Board members of this foundation, the news sources initiated by this foundation, and the journalists supported by this foundation, are to be prohibited from signing agreements with the FBI or its affiliate agencies.  That is to say, they should not turn into propaganda arms for those with totalitarian aims.

Awards for independent journalism are to be established for the highest level of reporting on environmental concerns, concerns regarding representative government and democracy, sovereignty concerns, voting concerns, impacts of international conflicts on the United States, human rights concerns, economic concerns, employment concerns, health concerns, utilities concerns including water and power, food supply concerns, science/technology/arts/academia/history concerns, concerns regarding local and federal law enforcement, judicial concerns, legislative concerns, AI policy and practice concerns, surveillance concerns, data center concerns, detention center concerns, privacy rights, private property rights, Constitutional rights, rights of members of the United States military and United States security agencies, the concerns of women, children, minorities and marginalized communities, the concerns of men, the experiences of the American people, and parallels between the American people's experiences and those of others around the world.

I would ask the Board of this foundation to consist of mid-career journalists with a substantive track record of independence, courage, and high standards in their reporting careers.

The press foundation is to meet all federal requirements for the expenditure of five percent or more of assets annually.

The foundation is to be assisted in investing the assets of the foundation in instruments/holdings that are robustly defended against inflation.

It is to have as its mission the vibrant and ongoing support of United States journalism of the highest ethics, integrity and significance to the American people.

Please endow this foundation with 500 billion dollars in order to ensure that this area, so critical to the sovereignty of the United States, be supported generously over time.

Thank you for your assistance in this important matter.

Most sincerely,

Lane MacWilliams