"State and U.S. officials… say the Dominion of Melchizedek… may be the front for illegal activity… Pearlasia says the state of California doesn't exist. The declaration of "spiritual war" from the leader of the ‘ecclesiastical sovereignty’ was the latest salvo in an odd legal skirmish that began last June when Pearlasia, also known as Elvira Gamboa, came to the attention of the California State Banking Department. She had tried to obtain a $20,000 auto loan from a small Shasta County bank, identifying herself as an official of "Bankasia A.G.," said Steven Suchil, Banking Department counsel, and the local bank alerted the state… authorities sued her in Shasta County Superior Court to stop her from doing business as any of 11 different banks, such as the Zurich Credit Bankers A.G. or Asia Pacific Bank Ltd… Branch Vinedresser… according to state officials and published accounts, is a pseudonym for Mark Logan Pedley, a former Sacramento man twice convicted of fraud for his involvement in a real estate swindle and a scam involving the conversion of Mexican pesos into dollars… California Pacific Bankers & Insurance Ltd., was shut down by the California Department of Insurance… Vinedresser was convicted of mail and interstate fraud in 1983 and.. for selling land he didn't own in Sacramento... convicted again in 1986 for the peso conversion scam..", NATION WAGING "SPIRITUAL WAR" ON STATE OFFICIAL, Sacramento Bee – Feb 13, 1995, [1]
