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Brett Kimberlin Saga Takes a Bizarre Turn, Forcing Me to Leave Maryland

Posted on | May 22, 2012 | 201 Comments

When terrorist Brett Kimberlin was convicted of multiple felonies in 1981,
he could have been sentenced to 230 years in federal prison.

FROM AN UNDISCLOSED LOCATION
Convicted terrorist Brett Kimberlin on Monday continued his effort to silence those who write about his criminal past by contacting my wife’s employer, claiming that I was “harassing” him. The resulting security concern required immediate relocation if I was to be able to continue writing about the case of Kimberlin, a violent felon, perjurer and admitted tax cheat who is employed as the director of a 501(c)3 non-profit that has collected $1.8 million in contributions since 2005.

Kimberlin was convicted of multiple federal felonies in 1981 and sentenced to 50 years in prison after he terrorized a small Indiana town in a brutal crime weeklong bombing spree. Law enforcement officials told the Indianapolis Star they believed the bombings were committed in an attempt to distract authorities investigating the 1978 murder of a 65-year-old grandmother, a crime in which Kimberlin was a suspect.

In recent months, Kimberlin has used a strategy of legal intimidation and workplace harassment in an apparent attempt to silence his critics, including blogger Seth Allen, Virginia attorney Aaron Walker and Los Angeles deputy district attorney Patrick Frey.

Walker says he and his wife were fired from their jobs because of Kimberlin’s harassment. Walker did legal work for Allen, who was sued after writing about Kimberlin’s criminal career. On Thursday, Walker published a 28,000-word account of how he says Kimberlin tried to “frame” him on a bogus assault charge.

Kimberlin is a known associate of Neal Rauhauser, a Democrat campaign consultant who has described himself as a computer “hacker.” Kimberlin, director of the tax-exempt Justice Through Music Project, is also involved in another tax-exempt group, Velvet Revolution, which has gained national attention by demanding criminal prosecution of high-profile figures including Republican strategist Karl Rove, U.S. Chamber of Commerce president Tom Donohue, and the late Internet news entrepreneur Andrew Breitbart. Kimberlin’s name also surfaced last year in connection with the so-called “Anonymous” international hacker conspiracy. Kimberlin has pursued numerous strategies to harass journalists and bloggers who have attempted to call attention to his criminal past and his notorious dishonesty — a “top-flight con man,” as Publisher’s Weekly called him in a review of award-winning journalist Mark Singer’s 1996 book, Citizen K: The Deeply Weird American Journey of Brett Kimberlin.

Convicted of drug smuggling and forging documents as well as numerous violent felonies, Kimberlin claims to have ceased his lifelong criminal career after being released from federal prison in 2000. Yet his habitual dishonesty – Kimberlin was first convicted of perjury at age 18 – appears unchanged. As recently as 2007, Time magazine reported that Kimberlin was gaining notoriety on progressive blog sites by “repeatedly asserting as fact things that are not true.” According to Walker, Kimberlin falsely accused him of assault after a courthouse encounter in which Kimberlin attempted to photograph Walker in violation of court policy. Walker says Maryland officials have refused to investigate his complaints of criminal actions by Kimberlin, and has asked his blog readers to contact those officials to demand action:

Attorney for Montgomery County
50 Maryland Avenue, 5th Floor
Rockville, Maryland 20850 [email protected]. 240-777-7300

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Until I read Walker’s story Thursday morning, I had never heard of Brett Kimberlin. The story was so obviously newsworthy that I spent the next four days writing about it, including these items:

Particularly intriguing to me was the fact that Kimberlin is the director of a 501(c)3 organization which has received as much as $558,543 a year (in 2008) in contributions, including grants from major philanthropic foundations. Several people who have examined IRS filings by Kimberlin’s Justice Through Music Project and the 501(c)4 non-profit Velvet Revolution have told me they have concerns about the “thinly documented” filings (to quote one person experienced in non-profit work who wished to remain anonymous), that appear “very sketchy” (to quote another person who has examined the IRS Form 990’s for the two tax-exempt groups).

These concerns about Kimberlin’s “non-profit” activities raise intriguing questions, Walker observed Monday, considering what Singer wrote in his 1996 book about Kimberlin:

[Kimberlin] had not not yet turned nineteen when he first sought professional tax advice. “When I first started dealing dope, I went to see a lawyer in New York, who told me how to beat the tax people,” he said. “I had to pay this guy $2,500 or $3,000 for a couple of hours of consultation. Plus I had to fly out there. But it was worth it.” Other than driving an expensive car and owning a small airplane, he avoided ostentation and, along the way, the scrutiny of the tax authorities. Each year, he figured out how much he’d spent, extrapolated the income that would be required to support such a life, added ten percent, and filed a short-form tax return, taking the standard deduction. The tax code did not specifically require him to list his occupation, so he left that space blank. The only money he ever put in the bank, he said, was the money he used to pay taxes. He wrote only two checks a year — one to the Internal Revenue Service, and the other to the Indiana Department of Revenue.

Such boastfulness about his successful federal tax evasion make Kimberlin a very dubious person to be entrusted with the directorship of a tax-exempt non-profit organization that would seem to be his only source of legal income. His recent harassment of those who have written about his criminal career appears to have created renewed interest in Kimberlin’s activities. Major news organizations are rumored to be working on stories about the latest bizarre developments in the strange saga of the violent criminal known as the “Speedway Bomber,” who once falsely claimed to have sold drugs to a college-aged Dan Quayle.

My own encounter with Kimberlin’s attempted intimidation appears typical of his modus operandi, which students of psychology recognize as the habitual behavior of a deviant sociopath: Attempting to distract from his own malevolent actions by accusing his targeted enemies of doing to him what he is doing to them – and to many others. Several sources to whom I have spoken in recent days, who for obvious reasons wish to remain anonymous, have expressed suspicion that Kimberlin is doing this not only to hide his criminal past, but also in a misguided attempt to conceal his current malicious (and perhaps felonious) activities.

These are not accusations I make; rather, these are crucial elements of a newsworthy story that I am attempting to report. Kimberlin seems to be determined to prevent me – or anyone else – from reporting this story. In order to continue reporting it, without jeopardizing the safety of my family and other innocent people, I have been compelled to leave Maryland. Many people have responded to my appeal for prayer and financial assistance in this difficult crisis, but it is important to emphasize that this story is not about me.

This story is about Brett Kimberlin, a criminal of infamous reputation whose recent actions indicate that he fears widespread scrutiny. His attempts to suppress the truth have only generated more of the scrutiny Kimberlin had hoped to prevent, so that Monday for the first time his story merited a thread on the political news aggregation site Memeorandum.

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The National Bloggers Club, Inc, a non-profit organization that organizes the annual Blog Bash event celebrating free-market bloggers, is making available a press contact for those interested in learning more about this story:

[email protected]

 
Update (Smitty): welcome, Instapundit readers!
 





 


Category: Crime, Terrorism, The Kimberlin Files

Comments

201 Responses to “Brett Kimberlin Saga Takes a Bizarre Turn, Forcing Me to Leave Maryland”

  1. PaulLemmen
    May 23rd, 2012 @ 5:00 pm

    Interesting that there is a connection between the Vice President, Joe Biden and Brett Kimberlin … in a Senate investigation into circumstances of certain events in a civil case brought by Kimberlin. “in a December 1988 letter to Senator Biden, stated that it was a third party call on “Monday, November 7 that led to Kimberlin’s detention” see http://www.pinknoiz.com/covert/kimberlin.html. Lots of connections to power-brokers in the Democratic party coming to Kimberlins defense and aid. This is much, much deeper and spreads much further than most are aware of. The Democrat party knew well in advance who and what Kimberlin is.

  2. joeindc44
    May 23rd, 2012 @ 5:40 pm

    Contacting employers?  What?  I am sure Maryland has legal recourse for this.  And it looks like his organizations have some deep pockets.  Let’s sue!

  3. And folks wonder why I blog anonymously « Politicaljunkie Mom
    May 23rd, 2012 @ 7:39 pm

    […] also out of a sense of need to guard my family, apparently a darn good reason these days as Stacy McCain has had to move his family to ensure their safety after exposing a well-funded lefty radical who happens to be a convicted […]

  4. Free speech, lawfare, and Brett Kimberlin | The Other Half of My Brain
    May 23rd, 2012 @ 7:40 pm

    […] abject humiliation difficulties in the Kentucky and Arkansas primaries, but I think the following story from  Robert Stacy McCain is more important: [Brett] Kimberlin was convicted of multiple […]

  5. Michilines
    May 23rd, 2012 @ 9:22 pm

    Then send the man your money. On the scale of creative ways wingnut bloggers get people to send them money, I rate this a poor performance.

  6. Michilines
    May 23rd, 2012 @ 9:31 pm

    At least I’m not sending this guy money to move.

  7. Susan
    May 23rd, 2012 @ 10:07 pm

    I arrived here via Instapundit. I cannot hit the tip jar but offer encouragement via knowing there are prayers ascending.

  8. Michilines
    May 23rd, 2012 @ 10:39 pm

    Now that’s meta, Finrod 🙂

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  12. PaulLemmen
    May 24th, 2012 @ 12:12 am

     Read deeper … Senator Joe Biden is in that camp too …

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  17. weRbroke
    May 24th, 2012 @ 9:16 am

    You wouldn’t SEND HIM A DIME anyway…he doesn’t swing from your POLITICAL tree.

  18. weRbroke
    May 24th, 2012 @ 9:22 am

    I think the most creative way to entice stupid people to SEND money will always land in the OBAMSTERs campaign.  Raffling off Dinner with the Pres?

    BAAHAHAHAHAHA

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  25. McGehee
    May 24th, 2012 @ 5:04 pm

    It appears Ace has mentioned Kimberlin by name now. I’d been told his first post on the subject didn’t, is why I wondered.

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    May 24th, 2012 @ 5:41 pm

    […] Sadly, it is fairly common for bloggers to subject to campaigns of harassment and even be criminally victimized by leftists in an attempt to ruin their reputations, intimidate them into silence, and destroy their livelihoods, (I myself have first hand experience with being targeted, as does The Lonely Conservative and Donald Douglas of the American Power blog), but what terrorist Brett Kimberlin has been doing to people goes far beyond even that. Brett Kimberlin has filed frivolous lawsuits against people who have reported on his violent criminal history and he has attempted to frame blogger Aaron Worthing for fictional “crimes”, and he caused both Aaron and his wife to lose their jobs because their employer was afraid that they’d become targets of Kimberlin’s violent rage, but it gets even worse: professional journalist and blogger Robert Stacy McCain has been forced to flee his home with his family to an undisclosed location for their safety due to threats from the Speedway Bomber, convicted terrorist and violent criminal, Brett Kimberlin – a disgusting vile cretin who is also now targeting Stacy’s innocent wi… […]

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  28. Michilines
    May 24th, 2012 @ 7:15 pm

    Let’s see . . . which one worked. We can easily know how much the president raised, but wrt you favored blegger, you’ll never know how much he squeezed out of you rubes, nor if he even ever used it for moving. For all you know he’s boozing it up right now on your dime.

  29. mklvtspot
    May 24th, 2012 @ 11:03 pm

    Let us know when you get Kimberlins dick out of your mouth long enough to form an intelligent arguement.

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  31. weRbroke
    May 24th, 2012 @ 11:30 pm

    Go away GNAT…now you are just ANNOYING.

  32. Joe
    May 24th, 2012 @ 11:41 pm

    And I care about your flipant opinion of a serious situation about as much as I care about finding out if cows fart in space.

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  48. WyBlog - I stand with Stacy McCain, wherever he is
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    I stand with Stacy McCain, wherever he is…

    Other bloggers aren’t so lucky. Robert Stacy McCain was recently forced to flee his home, and go into hiding with his wife and children. Why? Because a left-wing “activist” named Brett Kimberlin didn’t like Stacy digging into his past….

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