UPDATE: Fidelity Phone Call, April 14, 2025

OIG Hotline, please see the following email sent to your Office at 2:16 PM today, Pacific time.

I should not be engaged in a truth versus falsehoods contest with the FBI.

This agency should not be attempting to falsely claim that I filed any fraud allegation with Fidelity whatsoever.

Nor should the FBI be threatening the family members of OIG Hotline investigators, as they allege, in order to compel compliance with wrongful allegations.

The FBI needs to stop all of these wrongful attempts to mischaracterize me as a felon.

I did not file a fraud claim with Fidelity at any time, now or in the past.

Period.

And I have the documentation to prove this fact.

So, I expect that the FBI is now going to be forced to stop stealing from its victims.

This conduct is completely unacceptable to any civilized society and I ask that the FBI receive the sharpest possible rebuke for any attempt to extend false allegations relating to my clear, consistent, and firm communications with Fidelity today -- and at all other times.

Most sincerely,

Lane MacWilliams

OIG Hotline, I just got off the phone with Fidelity Investments, where I was assisted in obtaining a letter pertaining to my IRS filing.

While "Life Events Consultant" Daniel was extremely helpful in this regard, other Fidelity representatives, chiefly Ezekiel, appear to be consistently attempting, at the directive of the FBI, to falsely document a fraud claim, either in the past or currently.

I have clarified at every turn that I never filed a fraud claim with Fidelity and I am not doing so now.

From my perspective, security at Fidelity has been perfect, with no exceptions.

My only concern relates to wrongful directives from the FBI to falsely claim fraud.

Presumably, this relates to an FBI scheme to falsely allege that I filed a fraud claim so that Fidelity can disqualify that fraud claim.  The purpose here appears to be accusing me of a felony in the filing of a spurious fraud claim -- an event which never happened.

I will shortly be reaching out to Katrina in Fidelity's Fraud Department to reconfirm that I was allowed to access my Fidelity account this morning for the sole purpose of obtaining an IRS letter, that I attempted no access of my financial accounts whatsoever, and that the original lock on any third party removing funds from Fidelity remains in place.

Having said that, I will clearly need to find a new financial institution at this time.

I do need an honest institution that will not be so easily manipulated into lying for the FBI.

There simply needs to be more integrity and honesty within banks or brokerages in order for my needs, and indeed, the American public's needs, to be adequately met.

My right, at some time in the future, to access my own private funds, should not be weaponized into an FBI scheme to falsely accuse me of a felony with the intent of misappropriating settlements awarded in my name through the auspices of the OIG Hotline and the ODNI.

Thank you for allowing me to document these serious concerns.

Please note that my conversations with Fidelity this morning were fully documented by me.

Most sincerely,

Lane MacWilliams