Carmen R. Johnson, Ph.D.
In March of 2011, her home and businesses were raided. However, when she talked to the prosecutor, she was told that no laws, statutes, or codes were broken and she was relieved. In July of 2014, men with guns appeared at her home in the early morning. They seized all her tax paid assets and called them “substitute assets.” They told her that she was not cooperating and they took her to jail. She was indicted on 24 counts of mortgage, bank, and wire fraud along with 14 other people. She only recognized 2 Real Estate Agents and she had not seen them in over 7 years. She did business with mostly real estate agents, mortgage companies, and major banks for years by offering their clients services and paying off their debts. Carmen was a victim as those banks, mortgage, and title companies were, but they were not implemented, not even the real estate companies those 2 realtors worked for. Her attorneys tried to use coercion, force, and intimidation to obtain compliance with the 3rd Assistant State’s Attorney to take a PLEA. Even after suffering a nervous breakdown, Carmen refused to take a PLEA.
In 2015, she went to trial and the jury appeared to be a“blue-ribbon” jury and she was unjustly found guilty on all 24 counts. She served 44 months in a West Virginia prison work camp as she fought her case by going all the way to the Supreme Court with no remedy. She came home in 2018 and is now serving 5 years probation and paying 2 million dollars in restitution payments on crimes she did not commit nor benefited from.
Carmen now suffers from extreme PTSD with daily nightmares of the raids, trial, and prison. But, she is still trying to endure by continuing to fight for herself and others by working with grass-roots organizations on mentorship, the injustice system, and police brutality. Carmen’s attorney has recently filed a “Writ of Error Coram Nobis” and she is back in the appeals court. Carmen’s family has assisted her by starting a new non-profit called “Helping Ourselves To Transform” which deals with the needs of returning citizens, educating the public on mass incarceration, and the injustice going through the legal system. After all that Carmen is still giving back to the community. Carmen was a victim and is vehemently innocent. Please show your solidarity by signing this petition asking the “President of the United States” for a full pardon and gain her freedom back from an injustice system.