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    Well, as I stated, that's the statement I wrote, but  was later advised
 not to  read, because  the government  doesn't like  you to say bad things
 about them.  I was charged with copyright violation which  carries a maxi-
 mum of  one year  in jail.  A charge of, what is called, structuring which
 carries 5 years max was added, which says  any money  transactions you do,
 can't look  as if  you intend  to not  pay taxes, whether you intend to or
 not.  And a final charge  of money  laundering which  carries 20  years in
 prison max,  because I bought things with my money, even though most of it
 came from my checking account, and into my  checking account  legally, and
 was on  bank records.   For  you intellectuals interested in the law, here
 are the charges, and the laws supporting them:


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 THE CHARGES LEVIED
 ------------------

 COUNT 1 - Money Laundering of Monetary Instruments:

    That from on or about October 1988, up to and including July  17, 1990,
 in the Southern District of Ohio, Dennis W Hayes, did knowingly, willfully
 and with intent to engage in conduct constituting  an attempt  to or evade
 or defeat  payment of  income tax (Ref 7201), conduct and cause to be con-
 ducted, financial transactions affecting interstate commerce, knowing said
 financial transactions were conducted with property, to wit: United States
 currency, and checks that were the proceeds of specific unlawful activity,
 that being  the infringement  of a  copyright.  This is a violation of USC
 1956(a)(1)(A).  Ref: 7201 Attempt to evade or defeat tax  (I wasn't charg-
 ed with this).

     Any person who willfully attempts in any manner to evade or defeat any
 tax imposed by this  title or  the payment  thereof shall,  in addition to
 other penalties  provided by  law, be guilty of a felony and, upon convic-
 tion thereof, shall be fined not more than $100,000.00, or  imprisoned not
 more  than  5  years,  or  both, together with court costs of prosecution.
 Ref: 18 USC 1956(a)(1)(A) Laundering of monetary instruments.

    Whoever, knowing that the property involved in a  financial transaction
 represents the  proceeds of  some form  of unlawful  activity, conducts or
 attempts to conduct such  a financial  transaction which  in fact involves
 the proceeds of specified activity with the intent to promote the carrying
 on of specified unlawful  activity, or  with intent  to engage  in conduct
 constituting an attempt to evade or defeat payment of income tax, shall be
 sentenced to a fine of not more than $500,000.00 or twice the value of the
 property involved  in the transaction, whichever is greater, or imprisoned
 for not more than twenty years, or both.


 Comment:
     This is one of the laws pushed through under the  excuse that  we need
     to stop  the drug  dealing gangsters.   It's even under the controlled
     substance act.  But we see where they use it.

     In other words if you make illegal money,  it's one  violation, and if
     you do anything with the money you make, it's a greater violation.

     It's interesting  that an  attempt to  evade or defeat the tax carries
     only 5 years, but looking as if you might not  pay your  taxes carries
     20 years.   Actually  I've found that actually not paying it (IRS Code
     7202) also only carries a 5 year sentence.


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 COUNT 2 - Copyright Infringement:

     From on or about October 1988, up to and including  July 17,  1990, in
 the southern  district of  Ohio, the defendant, Dennis W. Hayes, did will-
 fully and for the  purpose of  commercial advantage  and private financial
 gain infringe  the copyright of Apple Computer Inc. of Cupertino, Califor-
 nia #TX1640052 protecting the computer program stored on  a 128K  ROM com-
 puter chip,  in that  the defendant,  Dennis W.  Hayes, did cause the pro-
 tected computer program to  be copied  onto blank  computer chips, without
 authorization of the copyright holder, in violation of Title 17 USC 506(a)
 and Title 18 USC  2319(b)(3) Ref:  Title 17  USC 506(a)  Copyright infrin-
 gement.

     Any  person  who  infringes  a  copyright willfully and for purpose of
 commercial advantage  or private  financial gain  shall be  fined not more
 than $10,000.00 or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both.

 Comment:
     This  one  I'm  obviously  both  morally,  and legally guilty of, even
     though I was told I could only be sued by Apple.

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 COUNT 3 - Structuring Transactions to Evade Reporting Requirements:

    On and between June 8 and June 29,  1990, in  the Southern  District of
 Ohio, the defendant, Dennis W Hayes, for the purpose of evading the repor-
 ting requirements of USC 5313(a) requiring domestic financial institutions
 to report currency transactions of $10,000.00 or more to the United States
 Department of Treasury, did knowingly, willfully  and intentionally struc-
 ture and  assist in  structuring a  transaction with  one or more domestic
 financial institutions in that the defendant,  Dennis W.  Hayes, purchased
 and caused  to be  purchased with  United States  Currency, four cashier's
 checks in the amount of $9,000.00  each,  payable  to  the  Union  Bank of
 Switzerland, in  violation of  31 USC 5324, and 5322(a).  Ref: 31 USC 5324
 Structuring transactions to evade reporting requirement.

    No person shall for the purpose  of evading  the reporting requirements
 of section 5313(a) with respect to such transaction structure or assist in
 structuring, or attempt to structure or  assist in  structuring, any tran-
 saction with one or more domestic financial institutions.

 Ref: 31 USC 5322(a) Criminal penalties;
   A person  willfully violating this subchapter or a regulation prescribed
 under this subchapter shall be fined not more than $250,000.00, imprisoned
 for not more than one year, or both.

 Comment:
     To make  a law  that you  have to  tell the  government about all your
     financial transactions whether you pay your  taxes or  not, sure seems
     like a  violation of  the Constitutional right to privacy.  But from a
     moral point of view it's not a bad law, as long as  the information is
     used fairly  and evenly, but if past history is any indication, and as
     in this case, it will be used as a means to increase  the sentence for
     a crime  above what  the creators of the primary violated law intended
     when they laid down the sentence  for  the  violation,  and  any other
     purpose which suits the governments needs.

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 The following is the statement of damages from the Pre-Sentence Investiga-
 tion report:

    The primary victim in this case  is the  Apple Computer  Company.  How-
 ever, the  impact on Apple is unknown and may never be quantified.  Accor-
 ding to a representative  from Apple's  legal department,  the defendant's
 behavior is  not widespread.   Nevertheless,  Mr. Mark Aaker, attorney for
 Apple, suggested for each  counterfeit part  that Hayes  sold, potentially
 represents one  MacIntosh computer  not sold  by Apple.   The attorney was
 quick to point out, However, that he was unable to  produce the percentage
 of those  individuals who  would have  spent over $2000.00 for a MacIntosh
 computer had they not had the opportunity to buy the defendant's relative-
 ly cheap  set of  computer chips that would "convert the purchaser's inex-
 pensive computer" into one as powerful as the MacIntosh.

    A second victim impact  expressed by  the attorney  for Apple concerned
 the fact  that Hayes  has virtually  flooded the market with his fake com-
 puter chips.  As a result, this may cause Apple  a severe  service problem
 in the  future when  individuals, thinking they have actual Apple computer
 chips, begin to send the faulty ones in to Apple  for warranty  work.  Mr.
 Aaker indicated that at present such losses cannot be estimated.

    Finally, Mr.  Aaker related  that the  primary harm caused by Hayes was
 that he provided an opportunity for  others  to  do  the  same  thing, and
 therefore, advanced  "the bad  intent of others and facilitated additional
 fraud."   The US Government  was a  secondary victim  because of  lost tax
 revenue due  to the  income generated  by Hayes.  The government, however,
 has not charged Hayes with any tax violations.

 Comment:
     They admit they don't know if there were  any damages  to Apple except
     that if  I get away with what I did someone else might do the same, or
     that Apple might worry about repairing a part that only  cost them one
     dollar.  And I really don't understand how the government was damaged,
     since they didn't wait to see if I was going to pay  my taxes  or not,
     and they  took over $300,000.00 from me, which left me broke.  I'd say
     they were the winners.


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                              Hayes Summation
                              ===============

     In the past few months, I've seen so many laws  like these,  which the
 average person  doesn't know about, that when I now hear a person say, I'm
 doing nothing wrong, they can't get me for anything, I start to feel sick.

   To summarize, the lawmakers of  this  country  are  passing  laws, under
 false  pretenses,  in  an  attempt  to drastically increase the penalties.
 Thereby circumventing the penalties  written into  the original  laws, for
 violations of these original laws.

   Then in  an attempt to make the application of these laws fair, they are
 then structuring the  application,  to  suppress  the  normal  human moral
 opinions  of  both  the  law  enforcers, and defendants, while at the same
 time, using these same opinions to pass and enforce these very same laws.

    Your guilt and sentence is now decided by the prosecution,  who decides
 what you are charged with, with a little adjustment for your past history,
 and how much you are willing to help them nail (accuse &  convict) others.
 And with a big adjustment for your wealth and popularity.  And the democr-
 atic controls  of appeal  are by-passed,  by their  unaccountability.  The
 only hope  you have  is to  get your  attorney to attempt to negotiate the
 sentence down from the 1000 year  sentence you  start with.   And  you are
 supposed  to  feel  satisfied  with  a  big reduction to 26 years max on a
 charge that should have had a max of 1 to 5 years to start with.

    The investigators are just doing their job, and  the judge  then has to
 follow guidelines  he may  not even agree with.  Give it a few more years,
 and we can replace the judge with a computer.  You will  never be  able to
 replace the  system with  a computer however.  If you did, it would charge
 everyone with every law they violated,  and  over  75%  of  the population
 would be  sentenced to  over 1000 years in jail, and the average life span
 isn't up to that point yet.

     They look around, and say, but we are making life better for everyone.
 No, they  are making  life better  for the  people who  can hire a team of
 attorneys to gui