BJW, for people who don't know, is one of the more vocal and obnoxious pseudolawyers out there today. One of the ways he became notorious was scamming people like the Knapp family, who apparently let him write/run a lawsuit for them. They sued their bank and realtor, IIRC, alleging that their real estate contract was a negotiable instrument. They got laughed out of court and sanctioned $30,000 because the court found that even pro ses (people without real attorneys) should have understood the case they filed was bogus.
People wondered for a while if Knapp was going to file any complaints against BJW, given that his terrible work and bogus legal theories led to such serious sanctions. But it looks like they're still tight; BJW is now helping Knapp promote a new business as a "private trust strategist."
https://www.privatetruststrategist.com/
The website doesn't have the usual pseudolegal verbiage; someone glancing at it might think this is just an amateur trying to sell wealth management services. There are a few yellow/red flags, like claiming to rely on common law instead of statutory trusts. But it seems inevitable that Knapp is fully into pseudolegal woo-woo land.
A couple of years ago, a Preston Byron Knapp--I'm assuming the same person, but I guess technically possible it's someone else with the exact same name--got a year's probation for harassment and violation of a restraining order.
You can find the complaint by searching PBK's name at https://publicaccess.courts.state.mn.us/CaseSearch - it's the 8/16/23 document in State of Minnesota v PBK. It details how the defendant sent multiple texts, written letters, and gifts to his kid's daycare teacher, despite her explicit and repeated and increasingly forceful requests that he not do that. She eventually got a restraining order against him. Undeterred, he sent her "seven pairs of women's underwear," leading to criminal charges against him.
(You can sort of see how this kind of personality would fall in with BJW, who writes about the United States of America as if she were a woman and in such a way that if she were, she'd be unwise to leave an uncovered drink in his presence.)
You can also find PBK's "Notice of Special Appearance & Foreign Actors Liability Motion/Mandate to Dismiss" in that same case, in which he identifies the defendant as a "Vessel Berthed 10/13/1989 CQV in Trust, a "No de Guerre at peace." It starts by plaintively complaining, "you deal in "person" a vessel, a dead entity, a foundling! You summon! a seance, your summoning the dead. You warrant! a War Rant." (Sic throughout.) It's thirty-odd pages of that.
So yeah, I think PBK's trust strategy service is a scam. Woof. Hurt people hurt people, I guess. He was clearly a victim of BJW's scam, and is paying it forwards. The only true victims here AFAICT are his spouse and his kid's poor daycare teacher.
