Sovereign Citizens represents themselves; Tell appeal court they had incompetent council. Lol.

Heather Ann Tucci-Jarraf considers her imprisonment will amount to a "hostage situation."

The Former prosecutor turned evangelist to the so-called autonomous citizens motion said as much Tuesday prior to U.S. District Judge Tom Varlan sentenced her to serve 4 decades and 9 months in prison for conspiring to launder cash. Her sentence will be accompanied by two decades of supervised release.

A jury at Knoxville discovered Tucci-Jarraf guilty of this national bank in February. Police say she advised Randall Keith Beane while he utilized digital sleight-of-hand to tear off a bank to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars.

At Her three-hour-long sentencing hearing, Tucci-Jarraf gave a 45-minute speech through which she denied the authority of the judge, used phrases such as "collusion" and "foreign actors," cited convoluted legal records, and depicted herself as a daring truth-teller being persecuted for working to expose the alleged corruption over the U.S. banking system.

"I'm the one voice they don't want heard," she explained of the Federal Reserve.

Prosecutors Beloved Tucci-Jarraf -- that has a large following on the internet, where she is frequently known by her initials, HATJ -- of only seeking celebrity. They pushed for a lengthier sentence, citing the need to discourage other people, such as Beane, from after her guidance to perpetrate fraud.

"This is not a vast conspiracy," Assistant U.S. Attorney Cynthia Davidson stated. "The defendant is not a martyr."

Prosecutors through the trial stated Beane, an Air Force Veteran working for Advantage Innovations at Knoxville, owed thousands of dollars into the United Services Automobile Association, an internet banking service catering to both present and former military personnel.

Beane came across a YouTube video shared. On social websites from Tucci-Jarraf, a certified attorney in Oregon who was employed as a state prosecutor there until she became involved from the autonomous citizens motion.

The movie claimed Americans can Withdraw huge quantities of money from bank account with the Federal Reserve. It recycled discredited tropes popular amongst autonomous citizens, a loose assortment of fringe groups which think in a mishmash of conspiracy theories.

Followers typically deny The validity of government authority and think reciting the ideal legal jargon may recreate untold riches and exempt from law enforcement.

Prosecutors said Beane utilized automatic flaws from the Banking system of transfers of cash from 1 lender to another to get certificate of deposits utilizing the Federal Reserve Bank's routing number and a bogus checking account number, rapidly liquidating the CDs and stashing money in his USAA accounts. USAA enabled its members to make refunds prior to the trade was approved and financed.

Beane Started $30 million in CDs and cashed in about $2 million prior to USAA found the trickery, based on court documents.

He Used some of their money to repay debts and also to obtain a half-million-dollar motor house -- complete with 2 baths, marble flooring and countertops along with pop-out side rooms -- out of Buddy Gregg Motor Homes in Farragut this past year.

Prosecutors stated Tucci-Jarraf spoke Beane throughout the fraud"every step of the way," and she helped him put up a trust to attempt and conceal the engine home buy.

A Couple of days later Beane's arrest, Tucci-Jarraf was arrested outside the White House following the FBI obtained a suggestion in the Secret Service that she had been demanding a meeting with President Donald Trump.

Part of the hearing revolve around whether Tucci-Jarraf's sentence ought to be lengthened since she used"special skills" -- in this instance, her legal practice -- to perpetrate or conceal the offense. Judge Varlan finally ruled the improvement to be related.

Tucci-Jarraf Then called two witnesses to testify on her behalf: her husband, Youssef Jarraf, along with a friend, William Ferguson III, who described himself as a blogger who worked to root out alleged corruption in the banking system.

Ferguson called Tucci-Jarraf "the most kind human being I've ever known" and stated characterizations of her since"internet hungry" are mistaken. At one stage, he seemed to compare her to Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela.

Youssef Jarraf talked haltingly, repeatedly wiping off tears as he spoke about his wife and the four children they have together. "I don't know what to teach my kids, what to tell them about justice," he explained.

In picking her sentence, Varlan said he believed that Tucci-Jarraf had no history of mental illness or substance abuse, which she had no previous criminal history to speak of. The sentence he imposed was prosecutors requested for and at the center of the sentencing range.

After Varlan declared his conclusion, Tucci-Jarraf repeatedly doubted his jurisdiction and requested the court clerk to file a notice of appeal.