JAFFE v. YELLEN

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
MICHAEL JAFFE, 	)
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Plaintiff, 	)
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v. 	) 	Civil Action No. 	26-00230 (UNA)
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JANET LOUISE YELLEN, 	)
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Defendant. 	)
MEMORANDUM OPINION
Plaintiff, appearing pro se, has filed a complaint and an application to proceed in forma
pauperis (IFP). For the following reasons, the Court grants the IFP application and dismisses the
complaint.
Plaintiff alleges that former Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen “kept $7 trillion meant for
Federal Reserve” when she served as Chair of the Federal Reserve “during the Obama
administration.” Compl., ECF No. 1 at 4. Plaintiff posits that “this revenue was due to a phone
call made to Seven World Trade NYC Secret Service Police to clean out revenue from the Stock
Market” and alleges that the “money came from businesses” he “created . . . during visits to
University of Florida Football Office” as a “walk on[.]” Id. Plaintiff seeks an order compelling
Yellen to pay him $7 trillion. Id. at 5.
Complaints, as here, lacking “an arguable basis either in law or in fact,” Neitzke v. Williams,
490 U.S. 319, 325 (1989), and “postulating events and circumstances of a wholly fanciful kind,”
Crisafi v. Holland, 655 F.2d 1305, 1307-08 (D.C. Cir. 1981), are frivolous actions subject to
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dismissal under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2)(B)(i). Therefore, this case will be dismissed by separate
order.
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RUDOLPH CONTRERAS
Date: April 7, 2026 	United States District Judge
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