Federal Grand Jury Investigation Obstruction of Justice By:
Bill E. Branscum
Copyright 2008
Troy David Stratos, a/k/a Troy David Stafford
It's a peculiar thing about con artists; some of these
clowns get away with so much for so long, they think they can do
anything they like with absolute impunity.
Most people who get served by the FBI with a Subpoena
demanding that their records be produced before a Federal Grand
Jury experience an epiphany, of a "the party's over" variety.
Troy Stratos isn't most people. Rather than comply with the subpoena,
Stratos went through the motions of copying the relevant files,
spending $4000 of his bookkeeper's money that he never repaid, and
then spirited the documents away from the bookkeeper rather than
allowing her to produce them.
That's a problem. Title 18 United States Code, §
1512, entitled, "Tampering with a witness, victim, or an informant,"
says:
(c) Whoever corruptly—
(1) alters, destroys, mutilates, or conceals a record, document,
or other object, or attempts to do so, with the intent to impair
the object’s integrity or availability for use in an official
proceeding; or
(2) otherwise obstructs, influences, or impedes any official
proceeding, or attempts to do so,
shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than
20 years, or both.
The integrity of the grand jury system depends upon
compliance and the government is serious about this sort of thing
-- just ask the fine folks at Arthur Andersen.
