A federal judge today slapped a seven-year prison sentence on a woman who filed false property liens against judges and other workers in the justice system.

U.S. District Judge Michael J. Reagan imposed the punishment — which is six months more than the time sought by prosecutors — after saying Cherron Marie Phillips “plastered federal officers with bogus liens.”

“Her actions can aptly be described as death by a thousand paper cuts,” Reagan said.

Before the sentence, Phillips insisted she did not belong in court.

“I do not consent to the adjudicative process today,” she said in a prepared statement.

She contended that no “legal relationship” between herself and the government had been established. She also accused court officers of violating their oaths by participating in the case against her.

She also said the court became a “Star Chamber” when Reagan ordered her into custody following her conviction.

Phillips, who is also known as River Tali Bey, represented herself in the case until Lauren Weil Solomon of Highland Park was brought in. Phillips, however, refused to acknowledge Solomon as her attorney.

Today, Solomon contended Phillips’ liens caused no monetary harm to anyone. And she described Phillips as a successful businesswoman who fell prey to an anti-government ideology.

Phillips and many other people question the authority of the government in a country where a black man walking down the street can be gunned down, Solomon said.

“I can’t say that everyone looks at the justice system as just,” she said.

But Assistant U.S. Attorney Nathan Stump described Phillips’ actions as “a case of vengeance.”

“This was a calculated, pre-meditated retaliation against government servants, public servants, who were just doing their jobs,” he said.

Stump contended Phillips also wanted to “strike a blow at the system.”

In June, a federal jury convicted Phillips on 10 of 12 counts of filing bogus liens against property she believed was owned by federal employees. United States v. Cherron Marie Phillips, No. 12 CR 872.

The liens falsely claimed the purported property owners each owed Phillips’ brother $100 billion.

The brother, Devon Phillips, was convicted of drug charges and sentenced to more than six years in prison. United States v. Devon Phillips, et al., No. 06 CR 778.

Some of the targets of the liens filed by Cherron Phillips — including judges, prosecutors, court personnel and law enforcement officials — were involved in her brother’s criminal case, while others were not.

The targets included U.S. Magistrate Judge Geraldine Soat Brown and then-chief U.S. District Judge James F. Holderman.

Both attended today’s sentencing hearing, and Brown filed a victim-impact statement in the case.

Other targets were U.S. District Judge Joan H. Lefkow and Patrick J. Fitzgerald, who served as Chicago’s top federal prosecutor for 11 years before joining Skadden, Arps, Meagher & Flom LLP.

Phillips was charged under a provision of the Court Security Improvement Act of 2007.

Congress enacted the legislation in response to such incidents as the 2005 murder of Lefkow’s husband and mother.

Reagan and Stump, who both serve in the Southern District of Illinois, were assigned to Phillips’ case to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest.

In the trial, Solomon obtained a ruling from Reagan barring any reference to the so-called “sovereign citizens” movement or to “patriot” organizations.

While some members of these anti-government groups have engaged in violence, Phillips was not accused of committing such acts.

In a sentencing memorandum filed Friday in Phillips’ case, Reagan wrote that there is a “long history” of filing retaliatory liens against government officials.

Those liens generally are filed by “those who claim that the income tax is illegitimate or who consider themselves ‘sovereign citizens,’” Reagan wrote.

He emphasized that he was not attributing sovereign citizens’ actions or beliefs to Phillips.

However, he wrote, “the unusual nature of the liens” filed by Phillips “was certainly evident.”

Evidence presented at trial indicated that Phillips was influenced by the philosophy advanced by sovereign citizen or patriot groups.

In letters of apology she sent to five of the targets of her liens, she explained she had mistakenly listened to “patriot people” concerning how to remedy the injustice she believes her brother suffered.

A “World Passport” and an “Application for Moorish Great Seal Tax ID, Nationality & Right to Travel Card” were seized from her home.

Some sovereign citizens say their descent from people from western Africa makes them Moorish nationals who are not required to comply with state or federal laws in the United States.

The sentence also includes three years of post-prison supervised release and a $1,000 fine.

In determining Phillips’ punishment, Reagan noted that she sent him and Stump purported “notices of suit” two days after the final pretrial conference in her case.

And he said her statement just before he imposed the sentence shows that she — like others who hold anti-government beliefs — still pick and choose which laws to obey.

“She simply doesn’t get it,” Reagan said.