Beale, 64, a former CEO of Comtrol Corp., is on trial in Minneapolis for tax evasion - he is accused of owing $1.6 million in back taxes -- and conspiracy stemming from an indictment filed in 2006. In a new complaint unsealed Monday, the former North Oaks executive was charged with conspiracy to prevent U.S. District Judge Ann Montgomery from overseeing his trial."Once I take down Ann Montgomery, no judge in the whole court will have anything to do with me," Beale said in a tape-recorded phone call from jail.
Also facing charges are John Howard Pelton, 67, of Stillwater; Norman William Pool, 43, of Blaine; Angel Ann Gessner, 29, of Sleepy Eye, and Frederick Ogan Bond, 62, of Champlin. Pelton and Bond have been considered leaders of a local organization that objects to the structure of the federal tax system.
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Beale is a "member/leader" of what's known among certain groups as an extra-judicial "Common Law Court" in Ramsey County. The lengthy title of this specific "court" indicates a religious undercurrent, including a reference to "a superior court for the People, original jurisdiction under Almighty Yahweh exclusive jurisdiction in and for confederation-government United States of America."
In January, the "de facto court convened a self-styled 'grand jury'" and began issuing writs, subpoenas, summonses and warrants that culminated with arrest warrants issued last month for Montgomery, former U.S. Marshal Allen Garber, Sherburne County Sheriff Bruce Anderson and Patrick Carr, an employee of the Sherburne County jail, where Beale has been held.
This month, an investigator with the Sherburne County Sheriff's Office notified authorities that Beale began making inappropriate or threatening comments about Montgomery during recorded phone calls.
Snell said that Beale told his common-law wife, Mun Suk Kim, in an April 3 conversation that God wants him to "destroy the judge. That judge is evil. He wants me to get rid of her."
― gff, Tuesday, 22 April 2008 15:23 (seventeen years ago)