[BC] re: communications attorney was: am radio kit - busted

[Mike McCarthy]

Someone is phishing.

The FCC doesn't deal in that manner as a far as I am aware.  A call to the 
Enforcement Bureau is necessary to find out if this guy is an employee of 
the FCC and/or a field enforcement engineer/officer.  I'm sure they would 
be really interested in hearing they have an imposter out there...which is 
a federal felony offense.

Don't send him anything by e-mail other than a note telling him to send 
this same request on official FCC stationary to your mailing address of 
record and you or your counsel will reply appropriately.

In fact, if he were to come to my door, he would need to show me a valid 
federal government ID AND a badge from the FCC as a field enforcement 
officer before I would even talk with him about anything related to 
compliance matters or get past the front door. A business card would not be 
sufficient and he would be told to come back with a badge and official 
government credentials.  In the mean time, I'd be on the phone to 
Washington to the EB.

Field enforcement engineers often will show up alone for general 
inspections during the day. BUT, in cases where a noted violation might be 
evident or there are unknown conditions, I find it very off that only one 
showed up and didn't leave anything indicating the FCC was there.  And even 
more telling is the FCC won't show up any odd hours unless there is a 
clear, present, and immediate danger to public safety 
communications.  After that...it's all done 9-5.

2nd, the FCC can not confiscate any equipment.  That is the jurisdiction of 
the Federal Marshall and is only done under court order.  Something about 
the 4th Amendment....

Nope...this guys smells funny.

MM

At 11:02 AM 2/8/2006 -0500, Rev. Robert P. Chrysafis wrote
>Well it's been three weeks since i was busted for running that 100mw 
>station that was mentioned under the AM radio kit - busted thread. Well 
>yesterday i checked my email and found an email from this FCC agent 
>requesting my personal info through email. IE: my birthday, DL#, SS#, 
>Address, type of transmitter used, and he request i send him said 
>transmitter. I sold that thing the same week i heard he had visited me. I 
>think i need a Comm Lawyer that will do pro-bono work. I don't know how to 
>deal with this guy. I was not home when he showed. He showed up alone, 
>didn't leave any paperwork or wait for me to come home. Tried to get my 
>landlady to let him in w/o me being there and with out a warrant. and now 
>he is emailing trying to fish for info. I don't know what this guys deal 
>is or what to do about him. it should be known that this guy has showed up 
>at several other stations who were pirate and new they were pirate(read: 
>running commercial exciters) getting out 15 or so miles and all they got 
>was an unofficial verbal warning no paperwork and this guy even showed up 
>at one pirates house at 10pm on a sunday night alone, no partner, no 
>marshals, no local cops. is this guy a rogue agent, is he following any 
>procedure or is he just doing what he likes. to guage my operation i was 
>going 3/4 mile on a good car radio and thought i was legal and explained 
>that to this guy.
>
>Thank You,
>
>Rev. Robert P. Chrysafis
>Universal Life Ministries (ULC)
>
>http://www.ulc.org
>http://www.arrl.org
>http://www.part15.us
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