This May, Bruhwiler was charged with three counts of making threats and one of “willful disobedience” of a court order. Court documents suggest that the alleged threats were made against a law enforcement or court official, but do not further spell out the charges.
In the case of the group’s Los Angeles leader, Bruhwiler’s website says the criminal charges against him stem from an incident that occurred while he was attending a civil court case involving another WAC-LA member. “The Judge literally did not like Bruno’s involuntary facial expressions, and ordered him out of the courtroom,” reads the posting, which offered few other details.
What may say more about the larger group is Bruhwiler’s embrace of sovereign citizens movement ideas. As it turns out, the WAC-LA leader has engaged in some of the practices preached by “redemption” scammers, most of whom are seeking to wrest millions of dollars from the government for their personal use. He has allegedly harassed former co-workers with “sovereign” letters demanding money.
Two workers at a California marketing company where Bruhwiler was laid off three years ago told the Report that the WAC-LA leader was so enraged that he wrote a series of threatening letters to the people at the company demanding massive sums of money.
In one letter, Bruhwiler claims he was libeled and discriminated against by the recipient. His major beef seems to be that the firm supposedly took away his “God given freedom of speech when speaking out about the treasonous acts of 9-11 against the people of the United States” and the “treasonous cover up by the mainstream media.” Bruhwiler also complains of having been slandered with respect to his professional skills “by imputing to me general disqualification.”
The letter demands payment of $100,000 within 21 days, with an additional $1 million per month for every month payment is not received. And it orders the recipient to surrender to the “authorities for criminal prosecution.”......
