Internal Church Sting shuts down Fraudulent Native American Church

Yesterday afternoon, a team of representatives of Oklevueha Native Native American Church , infiltrated a fraudulent Native American Church operating illegally in downtown Marysville, California.

The "church', identifying itself as "Life Churches of ONAC INC." registered to Patrick D. McNeal of Tustin, California was in operation with McNeal present at the location. The issue is, that such a church was never officially nor Legally blessed into establishment, which is traditional authentication Of a Native American Church.

Despite hearing his name being bellowed throughout the office, McNeal was unwilling to initially step forth as his office partner, attorney Charnel James was seemingly not present to help buffer the official confrontation. Video tape from multiple witnesses show Sachem Joy M. Graves, CEO of for ONAC KM repeatedly refusing to sit down and wait while McNeal was apparently collecting "Contribution Money" from prospective victims.

As counter staff attempted to stall, it would soon come to be learned that apparently NcNeal was actually calling police in the hopes of alluding the situation at hand. When McNeal did finally emerge, knowing he was being filmed, McNeal kept a peaceful disposition and accepted the notice and demand to shut down said he agreed to immediately stop all operations without any surprise to the notice nor alligation.

When confronted about operating the illegal church and taking advantage of the church and tribal peoples by ONAC KM's Youth Delegate Tyler Chillson of the Cree Nations, McNeal quickly stated that he had received a blessing from both Oklevueha founders James & Linda Mooney just the week before... interesting to hear considering that this "Church" was actually legally incorporated by McNeal with the state of California January 26th 2016.

McNeal, a Former attorney, who, as it turns out, was DISBARRED by the California state Supreme Court after being disciplined to the point of being Ineligible to practice law within the state, only showed a degree of shock at the presence of Chillson as Chillson was among the three tribal delegates asked to come and then ultimately thrown out of what has turned out to prove to be one among many of this churches illegal branches established to sell cannabis to church members for sacrament. The Mooney's however both state that it is not only untrue but not How a blessing as a church is done and Legally established.

Photographed here on the right you can see front line cannabis activists David & Marla James of So-Cal, who are becoming famous for having been proprietors of a Santa Ana cannabis dispensary raided and shut down last year, a case which Pappas and his team continue to build their reputations off of today.

In the article published, Marla James is quoted as joining ONAC per the suggestion of Pappas in order of legally being able to dispense cannabis medicine despite county and state bans such as the one that shut them down once already. In the background, you can see now former assistant of Matt Pappas Sergio Sandovall engaging in conversation with former attorney turned crook Patrick McNeal (bald) with an ONAC banner immediately in the background..

Patrick McNeal apparently became an attorney in 1974. 20 years in, he began suffering legal discipline ranging from probation's and fines, to suspension and ultimately even disbarment in 2010. However the state of California notes that McNeal has not been elegible to practice law within the state beginning in 1996 because of discliplinary action. ONAC Sachem Graves encourages people to "seek the truth and facts out for yourself" and references to the state's website specifically regarding Patrick McNeal, and to contact the Mother Church directly IF you or someone you know has been victimized in this way by any of these people:

http://members.calbar.ca.gov/fal/Member/Detail/62102

Emails from McNeal to other Pappas workers show that McNeal had began targeting the tribal delegates for being a threat to this now exposed operation. McNeal is noted as having commented that "These stupid Indians have big mouths" and instructing other associates to "stay close to" and even to go so far as to monitor their telephone conversations and to "keep them away from our operations." To the contrary, McNeal prides himself as being a fan of tribal culture and is quick to note Always how he Chose to "Study Native American Culture" in college.

Though Matthew Pappas's name is not directly on Any legality establishing this church, nor the second falsely established church associating into this situation "Life Spring ONAC Ministries", which doesn't yet appear to note McNeal as a part of other than by this scams association, church leaders say that McNeal's present position as well as connective history to Oklevueha and the Mooney's clearly intersect because of Pappas's affiliation with them almost one year ago and that it's yet unclear as to the level of depth and awareness into the scam of establishing fake churches for profit goes.

What has shown clear is that since the first part of this year, Hundreds of Thousands of dollars have been illegally solicited and embezzled at the hands of Pappas and McNeal in the name of Oklevueha Native American Church, to which the church itself has seen not a single penny From, and this is just beginning to scratch at the top of the surface.

More worrisome to church leaders is in the fact that there are many people out there who were led to believe that they are actual members of the church and that by being so they will be legally protected while in reality we have no official record of them, because they are not legitimate members and in turn have no legal protection that they think they do as they're out in their daily lives."

Since word of the shut down has began to spread, more than 8 additional victims of McNeal's church have stepped forward claiming to have been financially taken thinking they were actually joining the church And buying independant branches thereof, some who have personally given McNeal tens of thousands of dollars, while all having signed contracts stating they owe tens of thousands more for church protection they have yet to obtain. "It's complete fraud" stated Linda Mooney regarding the Marysville shut down, and she and James Mooney have both expressed great gratitude for the heroic action of Graves, Chillson and the churches warrior team who took the swift affirmative action in effort of preserving the church as well as preventing any further victimization.

"Youth Delegate for t ONAC KM, Tyler Chillson (17), earned at Least Two warrior feathers today... from ONAC KM" notes Graves who says Chillson "Clearly has the spirit and the passion of a true native warrior" and says both Oklevueha and myself are blessed to have such a positive and hopeful spark in him as the churches Youth Delegate because it's young men and women like Chillson who ensures positive needed change for the overall benefit of the entire globe, especially so the tribal peoples ways and cultural morals and traditions."

Some concerns about Chillsom being present during the confrontation and notice of shut down, but Graves notes pride in his own Personal choice to rise up and learn warriorism hands on. "It is a clear example to the world that our children of today are not as docile as they would hope them to be... they do know the difference between right and wrong, and too, they do have the drive and passion necessary in a warrior to willingly rise and stand in the defense of right prevailing."

Church officials say that the investigation is still currently on-going but encourage everyone to stay informed to the situation as well as ask that each and every one of you "Please spread the word in and beyond the realms of the Native American Churches".

This is asked because it's known that in addition to this situation, Pappas, McNeal and others of the former Pappas team remain focused on attaining trust and status within the Cannabis community who appear to be pretty Questionable as far as trust is concerned, at least for the moment until all this can be factually sorted out, especially in the state of California which church officials say "highly concerns us because many within the cannabis community rely upon the safe and fair access to the same medicines such as cannabis that we as the Native American Churches utilize, and in seeing the damage they've caused here within such a short time... it terrifies us to think of how huge their level of destruction could prove to be if entrusted into the realms of the cannabis, especially the Medicinal cannabis community."

Please stay tuned for further updates, and Thank you for your compassion and understanding during these unfortunate times.