Meg from Stand With Meg + Shawn Lee · Criminal trial attorney

How families can document potential FRAUD

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18 U.S.C. § 1343 • WIRE FRAUD
The Shawn Lee Report Episode 9, No One Is Coming to Save You. How to draft a law enforcement affidavit. Criminal attorney Shawn Lee and investigative journalist Meg.

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No One Is Coming to Save You.

Every fraud indictment in this series started with a victim who put the facts in writing. Shawn walks real sworn affidavits, a Wichita Police detective’s probable-cause affidavit in a Sedgwick County, Kansas false-information case (charged, not convicted, jury trial set for November 2026), a six-page FBI wire-fraud affidavit, an IRS Criminal Investigation affidavit for alleged wire-fraud conspiracy and money laundering, and Percoco v. United States, the Supreme Court’s honest-services fraud case, and shows what investigators actually put on the page. Then his four-legs-of-the-table theory for when police say “that’s a civil matter,” Missouri’s new lawyer-discipline rules effective January 1, 2027, and his read on the Clancy family’s civil complaint against telehealth providers. Allegations, not findings. Education, not legal advice.

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Episode 9 documents

Read the records for yourself: 8 PDFs for the cases discussed in Episode 9, including companion filings, plus the Missouri Bar article below. Downloads are free and do not require a Google account. Additional shared-folder material is in the research library.

Affidavits and charging documents describe allegations, not proof of guilt. Dockets show the record as of their download date; they are not live case updates.

  • Download: Michael DiMassa — FBI affidavit (PDF, 6 pages)
    October 2021 sworn statement describing alleged misuse of West Haven COVID-relief funds. The agent follows invoices, city payments, bank deposits, withdrawals, and witness interviews to explain the basis for a wire-fraud complaint.
    Folder files: DiMASSA-Michael-affidavit.pdf and DiMASSA-Michael-affidavit-2.pdf are identical.
  • Download: White, Johnson, and Grontis — IRS affidavit (PDF, 12 pages)
    Filed August 23, 2012, this sworn statement supports a criminal complaint and arrest warrant. It explains an investigator’s basis for alleged wire-fraud conspiracy, money laundering, and related charges, drawing on interviews and financial records.
    Folder file: White-Affidavit.pdf.
  • Download: Percoco v. United States — petition appendix (PDF, 144 pages)
    The appendix to a Supreme Court review petition collects earlier court decisions and case materials concerning honest-services fraud. This is historical litigation material, not the Supreme Court’s final ruling. Read it alongside the May 11, 2023 Supreme Court opinion, which rejected the challenged jury instruction.
    Folder file: 20220217145509562_Percoco v. United States - Cert Petition Appendix.pdf.
  • Download: David K. Elliott — indictment (PDF, 14 pages)
    Filed August 18, 2026, in Southern Illinois case 3:26-cr-30108-SMY. The indictment sets out bank- and mail-fraud charges involving an attorney’s handling of funds, including his role as guardian ad litem. It is a charging document, not a conviction; this same record is linked under Episode 8.
    Folder file: 06916553999.pdf.

Kansas records: State v. Shawn P. McMahon

A Sedgwick County, Kansas criminal case against a former Wichita police detective, charged under K.S.A. 21-5824 (Making False Information), the same statute Shawn walks in Episode 5. These are scanned copies of the public court filings. A complaint and an affidavit describe allegations; they are not findings, and the defendant is presumed innocent.

Also cited: how Missouri polices its own lawyers

Read at the publisher: “Ethics: Lawyer disciplinary system to undergo restructure” (Missouri Bar, Vol. 82, No. 2, March–April 2026, by Hon. Zel Fischer and Andrea K. Spillars)
On February 24, 2026 the Supreme Court of Missouri issued new rules, effective January 1, 2027, that move every lawyer-complaint investigation into the full-time Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel and end the volunteer regional committees that have handled Kansas City, St. Louis, and Springfield complaints since 1991. Useful context for who actually investigates when a family files a complaint against an attorney. The article is the Missouri Bar’s copyrighted work, so we link to it rather than host a copy.

Also discussed in Episode 9

Download: Clancy v. Tufts — amended civil complaint (PDF)
The filed civil claims discussed later in the episode. A complaint presents the plaintiffs’ allegations; it is not a court ruling.

General legal education, not legal advice for your situation.

WELCOME TO THE SHOW

The Stand With Meg Show with Shawn Lee teaching what families were never told.

Meg hosts. Shawn Lee, a criminal trial attorney and U.S. Army veteran, teaches a careful framework for organizing records, understanding possible fraud elements, and finding the right public reporting door. His framework is a theory to evaluate, not a conclusion about anyone's case.

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WHAT WE'RE DOING, IN SHAWN'S WORDS

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WIRE FRAUD IN PLAIN ENGLISH

Electronic court systems can supply the “wire” element, but a wire alone is not fraud.

Under 18 U.S.C. § 1343, prosecutors generally must prove a scheme to defraud, intent, and use of an interstate wire in furtherance of that scheme. Shawn teaches families to separate those elements instead of treating every electronic filing as a crime.

  • → A Zoom hearing may involve interstate electronic transmission
  • → An e-filed document is transmitted electronically
  • → A billing email or portal charge may be relevant only when the other elements are supported by facts
LEARN HOW TO DOCUMENT IT →
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WHY WE CAME TOGETHER

Two paths. One mission.

Meg spent years documenting what families reported losing in court, money, time, and time with their children. Shawn brought a criminal-law lens and a question: could some documented fact patterns fit federal fraud elements? That question became the series.

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WHERE IT STARTED

"Those look like elements. Document them."

In a private room, Shawn opened Meg's stack of documents and saw patterns that, in his view, could raise federal fraud questions. Meg had the families, the dataset, and the platform. Shawn had the statutes and the criminal lens. That conversation became The Shawn Lee Report.

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WHAT SHAWN BRINGS

The statutes. The military discipline. The courtroom credibility.

Shawn is not a family court attorney, he practices criminal law. That is what makes him different. He reads wire fraud, mail fraud, and obstruction statutes the way investigators do, and teaches families which federal door fits their facts.

U.S. Army veteran · Bar-licensed criminal trial attorney · Kansas City

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WHAT MEG BRINGS

The platform. The data. The translation families can act on.

Meg runs Stand With Meg, a national, family-reported registry spanning all 50 states and more than $1 billion in reported financial harm. She helps families organize information and learn to use public online resources; she does not give legal advice.

Investigative journalist · Registry builder · Advocate for the silenced

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THE UNIVERSAL COMPLAINT

Same story, families all over the country

"I needed a divorce or a custody order, but it cost way more than it should have, took longer than it should have, and oh, by the way, you destroyed our family."

That pattern didn't appear in a vacuum. It rose in direct conjunction with virtual courts, Zoom hearings sold as cheaper because you don't have to drive to the courthouse.

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SHAWN LEE
"I consider this public service. I'm giving families the tools to fight for themselves, portions of the law they may not know exist."
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WHY VIRTUAL COURT CHANGED EVERYTHING

Open court forced settlement. Video court removed the witnesses.

WHEN PEOPLE DROVE TO COURT

Sitting in the back row waiting for your name was painful. So people settled. Everybody in the room was watching, litigants, lawyers, the judge. If someone pulled nonsense, the room turned and looked.

VIDEO COURT IS NOT THAT

You can file complete nonsense online. False information spreads substantially faster than anyone can rebut it. Families get pitted against each other instead of moving on, and that's why Shawn reads it as fraud worth documenting federally.

01 · EXPOSE

5,842 family-reported submissions, still growing via the survey. More than $1 billion in reported financial harm. 381 public actors currently meet the three-family threshold.

02 · EDUCATE

Wire fraud. Mail fraud. §1503. Shawn reads the statutes; Meg translates them for the kitchen table, so you know which federal door fits your facts.

03 · EMPOWER

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THE DATA NO ONE ELSE HAS

Thousands of family reports.
Patterns worth examining carefully.

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U.S. States Represented
Family-reported submissions span every U.S. state.
$1.0B+
Reported Financial Losses
Family-reported across 5,842 families. Still growing.
5,842
Family-Reported Submissions
3,153 of those families said they were representing themselves.
381
Public Court Actors
Currently meeting the three-family threshold at standwithmeg.com, and still growing.
DOJ uses data-driven investigative techniques to identify possible fraud. Family-reported data can raise questions, but it does not prove a crime.
FAMILY-REPORTED SUBMISSIONS.

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