On the morning that IRS-CI Chief Jim Lee spoke at the OCIF press conference to announce the closure of my bank, so that the IRS and the J5 could use the action to frame my bank for tax evasion and money laundering, thereby fraudulently embellishing their reputation for crime fighting, Lee sent an email to Justin Cole, Director of Communications for IRS-CI, that asked seven questions.
Cole then forwarded the email to Special Agent Gary Shapley, who supplied answers to five questions, leaving the other two unanswered. One question asked, “What is happening to the owners of the bank?” and the other asked, “Give me 2 brief examples (typologies) of what the bank did for its clients to evade tax or launder $$$?”
The reason he did not supply those answers was that doing so would be a huge problem, as nothing happened to the owner of the bank, as neither I nor the bank did anything wrong, and there were no examples of the bank helping clients evade taxes or launder money, as it was completely innocent of those crimes.
It’s obvious that even at that late date, Lee did not understand that the whole thing was a setup—that an innocent bank was being sacrificed as a publicity stunt for the J5. In his reply to Cole, Shapley indicated that he did not want to supply written answers to the questions he left blank, but preferred “talking through” it.