1.   About a year ago, Davis said, came a series of phone calls and an attempt to file a false lien.

2.   Bush persuaded the state Legislature earlier this year to pass emergency legislation making the filing of false liens a criminal act under many circumstances.

3.   False liens invariably can be traced to a tax, traffic or fraud case.

4.   The false liens, a tactic also used by the Freemen separatist group in Montana, can cost thousands of dollars and months of aggravation to settle.

5.   They began placing false liens on the houses of local government officials.