Tennessee safety commissioner Jeff Long, left, responsible for 40,800 illegal and corrupt criminal convictions a year for “no insurance,” takes part in honorifics with Gov. Bill Lee, second from left. (Photo department of safety)

David Gerregano is commissioner of revenue, a lawyer who manages a mass fraud serving the insurance industry on the backs of the poor, whose tags he revokes because they are noncustomers. (Photo department of revenue)

David Tulis is reporter for Eagle Radio Network in Chattanooga.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Friday, Nov. 8, 2024 — Investigative reporter David Tulis is using Tennessee’s new anti-corruption court to sue tax commissioner David Gerregano and safety commissioner Jeff Long for what he calls a “mass shakedown of the poor leaving them shivering on the side of the road.”

Tulis’ suit, the first in Hamilton County, demands halt of the “Eye of Sauron” program run by Gerregano that Tulis describes as “an illegal surveillance fraud targeting members of the public who are insurance industry non-customers and mostly among the poor — blacks, single moms, immigrants.” Tulis is suing on relation of state of Tennessee.

Eye of Sauron enforcement “illegally sucks up to $2 billion in free premiums every year these for-profit companies otherwise wouldn’t get,” Tulis says.

“The revenue commissioner is targeting 1 million people who don’t buy motor vehicle insurance because of poverty or because they are safe, careful drivers,” says Tulis of Eagle Radio Network and TNtrafficticket.us. “He’s doing it knowingly and oppressively, apart from any law, in a way that is totally arbitrary and capricious.” 

Tennessee’s anti-corruption court, called the three-judge panel, allows a person to demand relief from unconstitutional executive orders, administrative rules or regulations by a state agency or official “acting in official capacity.” The court was launhed in 2021.

The law allows a victim of government overreach to sue in his home county’s court system. The anti-corruption three-judge panel is specially created by the Supreme Court, with the two other judges each coming from either of the state’s three grand divisions.

“Tennessee is a mandatory insurance state only for people who have suspended licenses and tags because they violated the accident reporting law, are under a court judgment or are criminally convicted in a motor vehicle offense,” Tulis says. “The court cases all say — and state law makes clear — Tennessee is a voluntary insurance state. We are not a mandatory insurance state.”

The suit on the Tennessee financial responsibility law 1977 and its Atwood amendment seeks to prevent 200,000 or more criminal convictions in the next five years, Tulis says.

Complaint in 3-judge anti-corruption court

This complaint includes an abstract and summary explaining exactly how the fraud operates in Nashville against the people of Tennessee.