In 1992, James Nichols, the Michigan farmer who has been indicted as one of Timothy McVeigh's co-conspirators in the Oklahoma City bombing case, informed the government via the Postal Service that he no longer considered himself a citizen of either the Great Lakes State or the United States. In March 1995, he got back in touch with the government—to complain that he was not getting all the farm aid he was due. According to U.S. News & World Report, Nichols received $89,950 in farm subsidies over six years, making him the fifth-largest beneficiary of such aid in Sanilac County.

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