Supporters of Petro America -- the company started by KCK man Owen Hawkins that allegedly fleeced millions from investors nationwide -- conducted their second march on the federal courthouse on Tuesday, and it was suitably delusional.
This was one of at least three protests conducted by the Owen Hawkins support team, and the only one that made a lick of temporal sense: The first was held outside the White House when President Obama was in Indonesia, and the second was at the federal courthouse on a desolate Saturday.
But the third was a spectacle, with tens of satisfied Petro investors bombarding anyone who tried to enter the building with a flier demanding the immediate resignation of key Petro bullies: U.S. Attorney Beth Phillips, Assistant U.S. Attorney Daniel Nelson, and IRS agent Devin Fields. The flier accuses all three of "lying to a federal judge under oath."
The protest was a prelude to Hawkins' first court hearing held later in the afternoon, where Hawkins -- bespectacled, I swear, in diamond-crusted eyeglasses -- watched the judge as she listed new charges brought against him and several alleged co-conspirators, courtesy of a grand jury indictment.
Hawkins is charged with conspiracy, securities fraud, aggravated currency structuring, money laundering, and wire fraud. The other defendants include Texas woman Teresa Brown, Minnesota man Johnny Heurung, and an Atlanta man named Clarence D. Moore, who is not a CPA but allegedly prepared Petro's highly imaginative tax returns, in which the company claimed to be worth $284 billion. (If you believe federal investigators, it was actually worth about $284 billion less than that.)
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