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Posted: 4/18/2014 4:39:50 PM EDT
Caught this on the news,  here is the print version,

A Romanian couple wanted by Interpol for an alleged $68million tax evasion built a network of sealed bunkers under their rural Washington home where they could have hid out for months.

Radu Nemes, 39, and his wife Diana, 38, built a network of bunkers and passages and filled them with stockpiles of gold coins and food at their home, set on 53 acres in Yelm.

The fascinating details emerged in recently-unsealed FBI documents on the alleged Romanian fraudsters. The couple were arrested in March and are facing extradition to Romania after being accused of working with corrupt politicians in their home country on the massive tax dodge.

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Link Posted: 4/18/2014 7:20:29 PM EDT
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Saw that.  Good old Yelm.  wonder what that place will sell for?
Link Posted: 4/18/2014 11:07:10 PM EDT
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perfect place for a zombie apocalypse or SHTF.
Link Posted: 4/19/2014 1:02:52 AM EDT
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First thought: Ramsters. And the article confirms it. I've actually seen those two in Yelm...
Link Posted: 4/19/2014 7:50:06 AM EDT
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So were they drawn to Yelm because of Ramtha, or did they find Ramtha because they were already in Yelm?
Link Posted: 4/21/2014 8:29:38 AM EDT
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I'd take the Titan One silo I was caretaker of out past Moses Lake for that in a heartbeat...





Nothing like 40k square feet of space to spread out and get comfortable.



 
Link Posted: 4/21/2014 8:44:26 AM EDT
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Wow, cool bunker.  I would buy it.
Link Posted: 4/21/2014 10:41:46 AM EDT
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One foreclosed property we cleaned up had a neighbor with a similar bunker sytem built next door.
Link Posted: 4/21/2014 3:33:23 PM EDT
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You are likely to have a chance after the deportation/legal proceeding's.
Link Posted: 4/21/2014 3:50:07 PM EDT
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Good question. Ironic that Romanian swindlers got out-conned by JZ Knight.

Has anyone ever caught her Ramtha 'act'? Imagine a 60 year old woman with too much plastic surgery channeling Yul Brynner from The King and I, and you've pretty much seen it.

Link Posted: 4/21/2014 4:18:28 PM EDT
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Romania was one of the countries the Ramsters have branched out to. Perhaps they were providing laundry services to the "church".
Link Posted: 4/23/2014 9:56:45 AM EDT
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Good question. Ironic that Romanian swindlers got out-conned by JZ Knight.

Has anyone ever caught her Ramtha 'act'? Imagine a 60 year old woman with too much plastic surgery channeling Yul Brynner from The King and I, and you've pretty much seen it.

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Good question. Ironic that Romanian swindlers got out-conned by JZ Knight.

Has anyone ever caught her Ramtha 'act'? Imagine a 60 year old woman with too much plastic surgery channeling Yul Brynner from The King and I, and you've pretty much seen it.



she does public shows?  Id just like to see that purdy house behind the wall.
Link Posted: 4/23/2014 8:33:40 PM EDT
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So lye-drinking fruitcake cult + east-bloc organized crime = ??
Link Posted: 4/24/2014 3:52:36 AM EDT
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she does public shows?  Id just like to see that purdy house behind the wall.
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So were they drawn to Yelm because of Ramtha, or did they find Ramtha because they were already in Yelm?


Good question. Ironic that Romanian swindlers got out-conned by JZ Knight.

Has anyone ever caught her Ramtha 'act'? Imagine a 60 year old woman with too much plastic surgery channeling Yul Brynner from The King and I, and you've pretty much seen it.



she does public shows?  Id just like to see that purdy house behind the wall.


Google maps will show you the overhead really well. They have a hell of a hedge maze too.
Link Posted: 4/24/2014 3:53:43 AM EDT
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= lots of profit! Until the Feds show up.
Link Posted: 4/24/2014 4:36:14 AM EDT
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Google maps will show you the overhead really well. They have a hell of a hedge maze too.
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So were they drawn to Yelm because of Ramtha, or did they find Ramtha because they were already in Yelm?


Good question. Ironic that Romanian swindlers got out-conned by JZ Knight.

Has anyone ever caught her Ramtha 'act'? Imagine a 60 year old woman with too much plastic surgery channeling Yul Brynner from The King and I, and you've pretty much seen it.



she does public shows?  Id just like to see that purdy house behind the wall.


Google maps will show you the overhead really well. They have a hell of a hedge maze too.


I'll have to check that out. Seems like a really nice building, shame it's owned by a whacko.
Link Posted: 4/24/2014 7:24:52 AM EDT
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Type       JZK Inc, Yelm Highway Southeast, Yelm, WA   into google maps and it will pull up what you want to see. The large collection of scaffolding is one of the "thought mazes", or at least that is what I have heard it referred to as in the past.
Link Posted: 4/24/2014 11:36:39 AM EDT
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= lots of profit! Until the Feds show up.


Heh...



Wonder if JZ will get caught up in any of it?



 
Link Posted: 4/24/2014 6:15:36 PM EDT
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I doubt JZ will get busted. Even the wacky religions get a free pass in the USA, unless they molest kids for more than a few decades.

JZ has several low profile businesses around Seattle. She had a furniture store in the heart of Bellevue Square for years, full of tacky crap. The location has been cursed with her bad vibes ever since - it was a bar for a while and is now vacant after someone got shot at the bar.
Link Posted: 4/27/2014 10:11:42 PM EDT
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The chandeliers in horse barns are worth the price of admission in themselves.
Link Posted: 4/28/2014 7:12:27 AM EDT
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That area of Thurston County is becoming very similar to East Lewis County.
Link Posted: 5/3/2014 4:25:12 PM EDT
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The article reads like having a bunker is as big a crime as the others they committed.
Big deal, they had a bunker full of preps. I remember when that was patriotic, Now it's looked upon like a crime.
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explain??
Link Posted: 5/4/2014 5:36:12 PM EDT
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Lots of strange individuals out in East Lewis County (similar vibes). My main question though would be what are they going to do with the property?
Link Posted: 5/6/2014 8:21:13 AM EDT
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Lots of strange individuals out in East Lewis County (similar vibes). My main question though would be what are they going to do with the property?
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Lots of strange individuals out in East Lewis County (similar vibes). My main question though would be what are they going to do with the property?


Probably get sold off... The question is by who... Owners? Bank? County (eventual unpaid taxes, owners being in east-bloc prison), or Feds (civil forfeiture for money-laundering)?



 
Link Posted: 5/6/2014 10:53:50 PM EDT
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The chandeliers in horse barns are worth the price of admission in themselves.

I remember when they were building that place. Built the horse barn first with those fancy chandeliers, meanwhile she was living in some dumpy single wide mobile next to the barn. That would have been about 1984 or so. We lived right up the road at the time.
Link Posted: 5/10/2014 4:38:55 PM EDT
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Are they the ones that own the pizza joint in town?
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