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USDA shows up in PA! GANGSTALKING CONTINUES
Prospective lawsuit announced to USDA officials, to their faces. Names a dismissed federal case and alleges the judge was "secret society owned".
Direct case referenceVideoFebruary 11, 2025
Original video removed
Published
FormatVideo
CategoryDirect legal/court
Primary topic—
Research relevanceDirect case reference
Case-link confidenceMedium
Last checkedOctober 23, 2026
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How a tier is assigned.Strong — the statement names a tracked case or dispute and describes filing conduct of the kind the indicators document: repeat filing on the same dispute, filing after an adverse decision, or filing framed as imposing cost on the opponent. Moderate — it bears on litigation conduct or chronology in a tracked dispute, but the case link is tentative or the statement describes something other than the speaker’s own filing behaviour. Context — general commentary with no specific tracked case identified.
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we have a lot of customers that are trying to harass us you know we have a lot of people that are intentionally placing orders and filing chargebacks people hired by I don't know who i' I'm getting over you know 10 to 15 of these fraudulent orders every single week
The chargeback-harassment claim that recurs across this channel, here stated to federal officials as the explanation for the consumer complaint that brought them. Gives a dated volume figure (10–15/week) and, at [6:48]–[6:52], a dated dollar figure ("at least $1,000 every week in chargeback").
Transcript-verified verbatim quote
Source removed. Quoted at 01:29 in the archived transcript.
I applied for all the small meat processing grants I applied for expansion grants didn't get any of them right so how I applied for uh what it local Farm promotion program didn't get it I was trying to buy a a USDA plant up in Watertown applied for USDA Alan you guys didn't grant me USDA loan and now you're here complaining
This is the grievance itself — denied grants, a denied loan, a failed plant purchase — stated on camera to the agency, one day before C049 was filed against it. No filing conduct is described in the quote; the filing conduct is in the [4:51] quote above.
Transcript-verified verbatim quote
Source removed. Quoted at 02:09 in the archived transcript.
Moderate pattern relevanceThreatened or prospective filing04:51
I'm pretty sure if I filed the lawsuit I was going to file against you guys you probably wouldn't be busting my balls today
A first-person statement of a lawsuit he intends to file against the USDA, addressed directly to two USDA officials standing at his door. It is prospective — he has not filed it as of the statement — and it names the target agency.
Transcript-verified verbatim quote
Source removed. Quoted at 04:51 in the archived transcript.
Moderate pattern relevanceAdverse outcome describedJudicial or forum bias alleged06:30
I was going to you know post the lawsuit we filed a federal lawsuit Frank Tano versus Freer range me conspirators of of course this uh secret society owned judge just dismissed the case and we didn't get any recourse for it
Reports a dismissal of one of his own federal actions and attributes it to an allegedly compromised judge. The case is named, though the caption mangles it.
Transcript-verified verbatim quote
Source removed. Quoted at 06:30 in the archived transcript.
Cases linked to this video
A case link records a researched connection between the video and a docket record. It is not a finding that the video caused, or was caused by, any filing.
2025-03930 — Tufano v. USDATranscript reference · Medium · Timestamped statement at 04:51 researched as bearing on this case: Prospective lawsuit announced to USDA officials, to their faces.
3:25-cv-00260 — Tufano v. USDA et alTranscript reference · Medium · Timestamped statement at 04:51 researched as bearing on this case: Prospective lawsuit announced to USDA officials, to their faces.