Silk Road defendant's lawyers say case has evidence tampering and more police corruption

Silk Road defendant's lawyers say case has evidence tampering and more corruption

Forensic examination establishes that the database for the Silk Road forum was tampered with, the defense is arguing, "in order to delete certain communications and information related to a person with the username notwonderful," defense attorney Lindsay Lewis told CyberScoop on Tuesday.

"We know that things have been deleted because we have versions, another copy that has these conversations that are no longer in the Silk Road database," Lewis said. "We are of the impression that someone tampered with that in order to get rid of these particular conversations."

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[22 Points] Theeconomist1:

Unfortunately this isn't surprising.


[9 Points] ciphersexual:

Anyone have a dump of the forums with the supposed missing posts from "notwonderful?"

Moustache has some info on a "Mr.Wonderful" account. Presumably these two are related.

https://antilop.cc/sr/


[5 Points] RIP_Meth_9000:

But it must be done for YOUR protection from evil the evil people!!!!

Breaking The Damn Law To Enforce The Goddamn Law!!!!!


[6 Points] ILike_money:

I made a post about his defense fund. The free-ross-athon will be held Dec.4th 2pm-10pm(est) More info at freeross.org. All proceeds will go to his attorneys fees. The site and fundraiser was created by Ross's mother who,along with her husband, took out a 2nd mortgage to help pay for his defense. Please give what you can. His appeal is currently awaiting a judges decision.


[4 Points] AdrianBeatyoursons:

the whole clusterfuck makes me sad...sad for Ross and his family and humanity in general


[3 Points] thewhat206:

With another set of murder-for-hire charges against Ulbricht still looming, his lawyers are using the new accusations of evidence tampering to demand all relevant discovery information from prosecutors relating to the previously convicted corrupt police officers; all relevant communication between the numerous law enforcement offices involved in the investigation; and all available evidence related to the altered databases.

 

When I got in trouble with the law my homie hooked me up with an expensive lawyer (discounted of course). In the "wonderful" US criminal justice system, I found out that the process of discovery is the defense attorney's best friend. When the state/prosecutor charges you, they do so given a bunch of evidence obtained against you: police paperwork, sworn testimony, video/audio recordings of your arrest, etc. Discovery gives your lawyer access to ALL of this.

 

Force and Bridges' arrests have not affected Ross' case because the Feds say the task force the two corrupt agents were on was different from the task force that arrested Ross. The notion that two federal law enforcement task forces that were both investigating Silk Road never talking to one another nor sharing information is laughable. Especially considering these task forces include agents from multiple agencies (FBI, DEA, Homeland, IRS, etc.). Look at the PSA's you see constantly of arrests involving the DNMs, they almost always include multiple agencies. Post 9/11, this is something that the government wanted to do, make all the law enforcement and intel agencies work together and share information. If Force and Bridges weren't caught, you best believe they would have both been on the stand at Ross' trial.


[3 Points] drugfreekid:

That whole fucking server is in reality covered in coffee stains and sugar glazing after the swine illegally hacked it, then used the 100 billion they got from congress for new guns, tanks when the old ones they didnt even touch. The judge has either been payed off or is seriously fucking conservative to the point of being blind.

They made multiple appeals for VALID things, all denied. This fucking case started with the presumption of guilt, and any jury they put there who has no clue what a fucking bitcoin, tor or LSD tab is cannot fairly judge Ross. This trial was intentionally fucked by the cock suckers in Washington.

Bring it FBI Cyber-Security,CIA, Homeland Department, Customs, you sack of legal monopolistic shit you will never beat raw math. These cocksuckers could find me today but my fucking computer is worth more in spare parts than information.

Who is the crook? The guy selling crack to support his family to desperate junkies willing to rob anyone including their mothers but is afraid so he carries a Mack-12 he's never used and doesnt want to use or the billions spent on bombs, guns, military surveillance equipment with the intent to kill, arrest every mother fucker on this planet. It's the smug fucks in congress. Who are weapons and technology to spy and kill people.

The stupid FBI couldnt get inside a pink fucking iPhone with a relatively simple passcode without getting as many CS engineers as they could to do it and even then it was the Israeli who figured it out.

They had to pay Cornel University 1 million USD to de-anonymize users. They have no fucking clue how to deal with this growing loss of power. Their whole federal funding is being sucked by every kilogram of MDMA we move.

First they steal your money, the more of it you make the more they take right? Because one guy worked less than you and did not risk and catch an opportunity the capitalist is forced to pay the risk?. The government has a progressive tax system to distribute wealth, yeah among who mother fuckers? The Military, DEA, CIA, FBI, NSA and every other stupid legislative monopoly for spending a million bucks to knowingly and intentionally violate peoples constitutional rights.

All With YOUR fucking money and literally a printing press. Bring it on you pea brain pond scum, we willl swallow you alive and spin you in so many fucking Minkowski fields and non-differentiable fields that you will wish you never fucked with us in the first place.

Come at us you stupid incompetent law abusing swine, well fucking grill you starting only at 2 prime numbers.

This case has pissed me off so much its amazing.

In fact, I watched a documentary on Mr. Karpels, and there was something off about him. He spoke more than 7 programming languages fluently with experience in others. Ross knew fuck all about running sites like these, Karpels on the other hand was born to do this.

We now also know how SR tumbled, using Karpels company. Karpels knows what would happen if he were DPR, so he accepts some smaller chargepaid some fines and gets off almost scot free. Have you guys been following what hes up to? Hes still in Japanese courts playing catch the fucking bomb while Ross is put into Solitary confinement because he wanted to sell 50g of mushrooms that occur naturally in Texas anyway? Man seriously fuck all these sacks of shit. Including the corrupt agents who were forgotten about and decided to profit of the investigation.

This trial pissed me off so much Ive moved to run on sentences, almost. I'm not angry he was charged with a federal crime, no doubt he played a role, but to have the prosecutions whole argument blocked is totally fucked. No porky pester in the sky will stop this.

SR is history. We have markets respawning with no problems. The percentage of total narcotics sold online is increasing. Come run after a box of legos stuffed with MDMA pills, come try to extort us but the fact is, you can torture me but open-source encryption will beat these idiots any day.

This is not about drugs anymore, its about our privacy and the fact these cockroaches are taking OUR money to spy on us. How does that sound?


[2 Points] Danknugs410:

2 agents reportedly stole 800k in BTC from silk road during investigation


[1 Points] GreatSince86:

Fruit of the poisonous tree. If this is true, then all the evidence is bad regarding the database.