Lane von Herzen: FBI Corruption of the United States Judiciary

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.

Wednesday, June 3, 2026

FBI Corruption of the United States Judiciary

OIG Hotline, given the FBI's conduct at the Coconino County Superior Court, it appears clear that I will need to withdraw my name change request rather than allow the agency to utilize the Court as an anchor point for broad-scale defamation.

I view the FBI's conduct in this matter to be unconscionable, a clear violation of my human rights, and profoundly disrespectful given my assiduous efforts to gain access to my documentation through information requests in multiple settings, including through the Arizona Attorney General's Office, from whom I have not yet heard.

Having said that, if you are undertaking an active communication with the Court regarding the FBI's obstruction of justice in this instance, I would ask for direct outreach from the Court to convey any re-evaluation of this matter.

Certainly, there should be no hearing before the Honorable Judge McVickers regarding other open court proceedings, as directed by the FBI, given that I have been deprived of all of this information in stark violation of state and federal law.

I do not feel comfortable in proceeding with a court process in which I have been deprived of all meaningful direct representation, as that would simply place me in the hands of a malevolent FBI. I think it is tragic that the FBI has co-opted what should be an independent judiciary within the United States, and all I can say is that this conduct exists hand in glove with knowingly falsified law enforcement reporting, in which the FBI argues that it is a "national security matter" for the agency to mischaracterize honorable American citizens as terrorists, spies, human traffickers, predators, thieves, and felons of every sort.

No human rights advocate should have her work disrupted in this corrupt manner, and I think these events are shameful to the FBI, and shameful to those who authorized this conduct.

Thank you for allowing me to express these serious concerns.

Certainly, it would have been best if outreach to the Court had occurred at the point of my filing my complaint with your Office. In the absence of that intervention, this corrupt result was foreseeable.

Most sincerely,