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\"Republic<\/a>NEBRASKA<\/strong> – A member of the so-called sovereign citizen group, \u201cRepublic for the United States of America\u201d was sentenced to three years in prison for conspiring to retaliate against federal officials by filing false liens against a federal judge and other officials in Nebraska, federal officials said.<\/p>\n

A federal jury in Omaha found Donna Marie Kozak<\/strong> guilty in August \u00a0of conspiracy to file and filing false liens against two U.S. District Court judges, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Nebraska, two Assistant U.S. Attorneys and an Internal Revenue Service agent, the Justice Department said.<\/p>\n

Kozak, a former college instructor, retaliated after her associates, David<\/strong> and Bernita Kleensang,<\/strong> were convicted of federal tax crimes in 2012, according to authorities.<\/p>\n

Initially, Kozak retaliated against the federal judge who presided over the Kleensang trial by filing a false lien against her for $19 million with the Boyd County, Nebraska, clerk\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

After a federal grand jury indicted Kozak for filing the false lien and for federal tax crimes, she filed five $18 million false liens against federal officials at the Washington County, Nebraska, register of deeds office while on pretrial release, officials said.<\/p>\n

At trial, the evidence showed that in 1997, Kozak stopped filing income tax returns, and from 1997 through 2012, she obstructed the Internal Revenue Service by hiding assets, applying for tax-exempt status for a sham entity, filing a false claim for a tax refund, sending harassing correspondence to IRS agents, and filing false liens against an IRS-Criminal Investigation special agent and others.<\/p>\n

In 2008, she filed a tax return based on fictitious income and tax withholdings and claimed a refund of $660,000.<\/p>\n

A 2012 report by the Southern Poverty Law Center states that The Republic of the United States” is plagued with criminality.<\/p>\n

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