Matthew Cox

He went after the U.S.

bankruptcy clerk of courts, the U.S.

magistrate judge liens ranging from $15 million to $100 million.

He then filed involuntary bankruptcy petitions against five federal officials.

to put these other people into bankruptcy without their knowledge.

Just an absolute nightmare.

Now, there is a federal law against filing retaliatory liens against government officials.

Did he get extra time for that?

Well, my former Fed colleagues went out and arrested Timothy Jermaine Pate, charging him with 15 counts of filing retaliatory liens against federal officials and five counts of making false bankruptcy declarations.

This guy's a menace.

Yeah.

No economic loss, though, other than the red tape and the nightmare that he causes these federal officials to try to get these liens released from their properties.

How much time are you going to give Tim Pate?

Did he plead guilty?

We don't know.

No, he went to trial, represented himself, and lost.

Yeah.

He caused a lot of problems to a lot of people in positions of power, and they didn't take nicely to it.

He actually received the longest federal sentence ever handed out for a retaliatory lien case, 25 years.

Oh, my God.