Racketeering In Michigan's Friend Of The Court?

I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advise. I believe the Carol Rhodes may be stating that she witnessed the Michigan Courts and Friend of the Court engage in criminal racketeering. She said: "And the judges are definitely benefiting by larger child support collections" ... "When we had individuals that knew their constitutional rights that were coming into the courtroom the agency would warn the judge and say 'we have a father's rights advocate coming in today, a father's right's individual. They might be dangerous. I think we might need a few more deputies in the courtroom.'" "And so just at that alone the judge would be alerted that this is an individual that we are going to vent the full power and vengeance of the law on this individual who dares to challenge our authority." "And as Dr. Sanjari said, often times those who stand up for their constitutional rights completely taken from them. They loose all parental rights. They don't see their children sometimes for 20 years." - Carol Rhodes, Former Friend of the Court Collections Officer, and author of "Friend of the Court Enemy of the Family", speaking on "Ronald Smith's Radio Show: Dr. Baskerville, Dr. Sanjari & Carol Rhodes", starting at time 19:00, Oct 28, 2007, http://daddy.typepad.com/daddyblog/2007/10/ronald-smiths-r.html Making a custody decision based on punishing people, rather than the best interests of the child, and permanently separating a parent and a child, may be kidnapping. And kidnapping for money, or conspiring to kidnap for money, is racketeering. Also, in theory creating an unjust child support burden, the consequence of which is an unjust imprisonment for the payer, could also be kidnapping. From US Code TITLE 18 > PART I > CHAPTER 95 > § 1959: (a) Whoever, as consideration for the receipt of, or as consideration for a promise or agreement to pay, anything of pecuniary value from an enterprise engaged in racketeering activity, or for the purpose of gaining entrance to or maintaining or increasing position in an enterprise engaged in racketeering activity, murders, kidnaps, maims, assaults with a dangerous weapon, commits assault resulting in serious bodily injury upon, or threatens to commit a crime of violence against any individual in violation of the laws of any State or the United States, or attempts or conspires so to do, shall be punished— (1) for murder, by death or life imprisonment, or a fine under this title, or both; and for kidnapping, by imprisonment for any term of years or for life, or a fine under this title, or both;

.... (5) for attempting or conspiring to commit murder or kidnapping, by imprisonment for not more than ten years or a fine under this title, or both; and http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode18/usc_sec_18_00001959----000-.html Also, handling a monetary transaction from criminally derived property (e.g. from a CS obligation obtained by an unlawful racket which removed custody from a parent unlawfully), is also a federal crime: (a) Whoever, in any of the circumstances set forth in subsection (d), knowingly engages or attempts to engage in a monetary transaction in criminally derived property of a value greater than $10,000 and is derived from specified unlawful activity, shall be punished as provided in subsection (b). http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode18/usc_sec_18_00001957----000-.html Sure, you can go to http://tips.fbi.gov/ and report. I think that a few people have tried this and received a big *yawn* go away now. However, victims of a racket can sue in federal courts, I think. TITLE 18 > PART I > CHAPTER 96 > § 1964:

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(a) The district courts of the United States shall have jurisdiction to prevent and restrain violations of section 1962 of this chapter by issuing appropriate orders... .... (c) Any person injured in his business or property by reason of a violation of section 1962 of this chapter may sue therefor in any appropriate United States district court ... http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode18/usc_sec_18_00001964----000-.html It seems the first step in doing something like this is to talk to a lawyer who's in the federal bar association. Also, I would think that a willing witness, such as a whistleblower, for example a retired person with direct knowledge of the case at hand, would be best. Finally, while I'm not a lawyer, I think that a victim of a racket isn't the only victim, and it would be a lot better to join forces before proceeding.