Executive Summary
This report reveals how the American justice system is susceptible to weaponization against innocent American citizens, with agents of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)and Department of Justice (DOJ) acting as complicit forces when their personal interests align with corrupt parties and cultural influences. Millions of Americans are now in the firing line for selective prosecutions, and the American public faces a grave crisis within its justice system. This report is a living example of it; many people who offered information here insisted on anonymity for fear of retribution from their own agencies.
The case of Richard Brasser, a law-abiding AI & tech entrepreneur and father of four from Charlotte, North Carolina, is as clear an example of the new form of debasement in the American justice system as exists.
Brasser, who self-reported and fully repaid a minor payroll tax oversight by his employee through the IRS Voluntary Disclosure Program (VDP) by 2021 - a program designed to protect Americans like Brasser - now faces imprisonment following an IRS agent undermining his own agency. The agent, in partnership with local colleagues in the DOJ, manufactured an extremely dubious prosecution, with both agencies violating numerous government laws and norms. Public records and private information revealed in this report indicate the case was one of zealous prosecution, escalated despite dropped charges of fraud that lacked evidence to begin with, as well as other accusations that lacked evidence entirely.
The Brasser case shows how easily the IRS & DOJ can be manipulated by bad actors, and how they can become a party to malicious prosecutions because of personal relationships, professional overreach, social pressure within government bureaus & locales, outright corruption, and political and ideological alignment. The case further exemplifies how judges can succumb to similar pressures and be exploited by iniquitous prosecutors.
It is also likely that agents of the IRS & DOJ mentioned in this report, should not only be sanctioned and dismissed, but criminal charges must be considered for some of them.
The DOJ and IRS pursued a series of false charges with undue vigor against Brasser, in order to break Brasser financially and spiritually, and also weaken his ability to defend himself against additional dubious charges. Prosecutors harassed uninvolved family members, declined to consider evidence that would have exonerated Brasser, and there are indications that rogue DOJ members interfered with Brasser’s 6th Amendment right to an attorney by warning law firms off the case, and possibly getting Brasser’s hired law firm to drop him 5 days before he was indicted.
Further, there is evidence that Brasser was targeted for specifically being wealthy,
white, and male, and that his actual sentence was tainted by political views that were
concerned with being active against President Donald Trump.
The indictment against Brasser - the first of its kind for a successful Voluntary Disclosure Program (“VDP”) participant - was suspect to begin with and was shockingly prosecuted years after Brasser had settled his issues with the IRS. The case was brought forth shortly after Brasser decided to sue a well-connected former investor and his wife, Chris & Carrie McDowell, who had illegally undermined Brasser’s company in an attempt to take it over. Overwhelming evidence, including by her own admission, indicates it was Ms. McDowell that criminally and repeatedly lied to various government bodies in order to get Brasser prosecuted. Despite this, neither the DOJ or the IRS has attempted to prosecute Ms. McDowell or her husband.
Notably, Brasser was never offered any plea bargain, something highly unusual in this type of case and offering further concern that irregular factors were influencing the prosecution.
Out of the many floated and prosecuted charges, the government dropped or lost on all of them but one. That one is under appeal now, because the judge’s instructions gave the jury no choice but to convict. Nevertheless, the government has continued to go full force against Brasser, attempting to make him serve over a year in a medium security prison before his appeal is heard. Very notably, the DOJ recently added four
D.C. prosecutors to quash Brasser’s appeal, all this over a long-settled company debt of just over half a million dollars.
In a recent relevant development, to accompany her manipulation of the IRS & DOJ and others, Ms. McDowell sued Brasser’s wife, Megan Brasser, for defamation for publicly telling the truth about her husband’s situation. On October 16, 2025, the judge sided with Ms. Brasser and ridiculed the case, though it has not been dismissed.
Nevertheless, Richard Brasser is scheduled to start a jail sentence on January 15, 2026, and - disturbingly - in a medium security prison, despite being a first time “offender”.
While this report reveals a substantial amount of evidence proving the collusion of government agents to prosecute Brasser unfairly, those involved had limitations on resources and did not have the ability to subpoena the internal communications of the
government agents and agencies involved.
It is therefore urgent that Congress investigates.