US man charged with massive IRS fraud was planning on buying Dominica passport

The information has only now been made public after The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) intervened as an amicus in the case of the defendant and received a group of e-mails last week as the result of a Freedom of Information Act request jointly filed with the San Francisco Bay Guardian, a local alt-weekly newspaper.

Part of the information released includes an IRS Special agent’s search warrant, which details information concerning, Daniel David Rigmaiden also referred to as the Hacker.

In the search warrant, the agent reveals that Rigmaiden had planned to travel to Dominica, saying that he needed $250 000 to do so. He had also asked a friend to find a bank in Dominica through which he could transfer $5 000 weekly.

More explosively, he found on the ‘Hacker’s’ computer “documents regarding obtaining citizenship in other countries; emails regarding paying off Dominican officials to get Dominican birth certificates and passports.”

The Hacker was apparently looking for a new identity because in an earlier email, he had written to an as yet unidentified person claiming that he had burned his birth certificate and identification document.

“The Hacker stated to C1 2 “I am probably the biggest single threat to the US government currently living and they don’t even know it. I can do things to the US government that will make all these terrorist organizations look like sewing circles.’”

“I was thinking of starting with robotic aerial assassins that can be controlled from a computer over the internet. It would essentially be a flying handgun that no one would likely see. Perfect for taking out politicians….I was also thinking about making 50 miles range missiles without the warheads.

“I would only want to arm militias planning on standing up against the Feds when the winner take all war takes place in the US….I am also trying to convince some old friends to help out with chemical and biological weapons as well.”

Rigmaiden has made the news in the United States for other reasons as well because he is also at the center of a challenge from the ACLU to the Federal government over the use of ‘stingrays’ to catch criminals.

A stingray (also known as “IMSI catchers”) is a device that can create a false cellphone tower, and allows authorities to determine a particular mobile phone’s precise location. The ACLU contends that agents seeking search warrants were not always clear in their request to magistrates and judges about the fact that they were specifically using stingrays when asking for permission to conduct electronic surveillance.