A damsel in distress. Plural of Mongoose Update.

[Munchy]

cool! I didn't realize they were inter-continental. hopefully as the rubber meats the road they'll get a lot of traction from that and have an extra good year, then maybe they'll get a Pirelli star too! but hey don't mind me, I'm just feeling flat out tired right now...

[AGD]

There are a lot of new docs on https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71 ... s-v-clark/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Unfortunately one has to buy them on Pacer. Somebody here with an account and able to buy?

[AGD]

Some of the docs have been released as a free download.
The one written by PoM is certainly interesting, because he admits he was the person known as Variety Jones:

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK ----------------x UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, V. ROGER THOMAS CLARK, Defendant. -----------------x DECLARATION Indictment No. 15-cr -866 (WH P)I, ROGER THOMAS CLARK, declare under penalty of perjury, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §1746, that the following is true and correct: 1. I am the defendant in this prosecution pending against me for my participation inthe Silk Road website.2. In February of 2011, I became aware of Silk Road.3. I visited the site on several occasions before signing up as a member.4. My initial contact with the site was as a purchaser of marijuana.5. In September of 2011. I began to communicate with the administrator of the site,who later assumed the name the Dread Pirate Roberts ("DPR").6.Soon after I began to use Silk Road I noticed a vulnerability in the method usedto handle Bitcoin transactions that potentially made it possible for someone tohack into the site and steal Bitcoins. I told DPR about the problem and helpedconfigure the website's code to prevent others from gaining unauthorized accessto the server.7. Over the course of the following months, we developed a mentor-protegerelationship. DPR had no formal training in computer coding. I provided advice on1 Case 1:15-cr-00866-WHP Document 35 Filed 10/31/19 Page 1 of 5
the technical aspects of running the site. I helped him hire and manage anexperienced programmer. The programmer and I assisted DPR in developingcomputer code and maintaining Silk Road's technical infrastructure.8. By mid-2011, I was devoting the majority of my time to participating with DPR inrunning Silk Road.9. In 2012 I became de facto head of marketing. I dreamed up and ran promotionsfor the site.10. I often developed ideas for changing and improving the technical structure of thesite to make it easier for users to access. I helped DPR redesign the portion ofthe site the users interacted with - the marketplace and forums and wiki pages -to make the interfaces less confusing and more appealing to the users.11. Together DPR and I developed ideas on how to expand the Silk Road brand intoother areas and how to improve the site.12. Often I paid for equipment we needed to run the site and paid the salary of someof the employees.13. Instead of seeking reimbursement for the extensive amount of time I wasworking on the website and the money I was spending, I agreed to take anownership interest in the business. I was never paid a wage.14. By February of 2013 until the site was closed in October of 2013, I was a part-owner of Silk Road.15. DPR and I did not always agree on the policies and procedures for how the siteshould be run. For example, we had a disagreement about whether buyers andsellers should be able to conduct transactions outside the escrow system. TheCase 1:15-cr-00866-WHP Document 35 Filed 10/31/19 Page 2 of 5
general rule was that buyers would have to deposit Bitcoin to pay for theirtransactions in the Silk Road escrow account. The Bitcoin would be released tothe vendor when the transaction was confirmed. DPR wanted to permit sometransactions to take place outside the escrow system. We argued about this.DPR ultimately agreed to do things my way.16. When we disagreed about a policy or practice, my view often prevailed. WhileDPR was the originator of the site, and continued to hold a greater interest in itthan I, we became partners.17. I also was chiefly responsible for making sure that what occurred on the websitewould remain private. For example, Silk Road was operated on what is known as"The Onion Router" or "Tor" network.18. Tor - The Onion Router - is an Internet browser that encrypts data and thentransmits it randomly through multiple relays or nodes. The last node appears asthe origination point of the data, thereby obscuring and making it impossible todetermine the actual IP address of the sender. To access Silk Road a user wasrequired to download the Tor software. The user could then access the homepage of Silk Road. To enter the site a user had to enter a registered user nameand password.19. All payments made through Silk Road had to be paid for in Bitcoin, ananonymous currency, which could not be traced to the user. Silk Road also had aBitcoin tumbler to process the Bitcoin transactions to make the tracking ofindividual transactions impossible.Case 1:15-cr-00866-WHP Document 35 Filed 10/31/19 Page 3 of 5
20. I believed that what took place on the website would remain private. I intended that it would remain private.21. When I was arrested in Thailand on December 3, 2015, members of the Royal Thai Police entered my home, restrained me and immediately began to search my residence.22. Although they were already searching my home, they asked me to sign a consent form that would authorize them to seize several items that belonged to me, including the following:•a silver and black Acer Aspire laptop (serial# NXM2RST013223110F1200);•a silver MacBook Pro laptop (serial # C02HN0WNDV7P);•a black Hewlett Packard Presario CQ60 with USB dongle inserted (serial #2CE843138V);•a Seagate Barracuda LP hard drive (Serial# 5YD265A1);•a black and blue Transcend thumb drive (8 GB);•two Micro Center USB flash drives (32 GB); and•a dark grey Olympus fe camera (serial# J7120910).23. When I refused to sign the form, members of the Royal Thai police repeatedly hitme with sticks. Fearing for my safety, I signed the form and wrote in English, "notread or understood, signed under duress

This will probably end with a loooooong time behind bars...

Edit 1: 19. - Roger is wrong with Bitcoin being anonymous. It is not and it never was. Bitcoin Tumblers don't change that.
Edit 2: Trying to supress evidence, because of the warrantless search has been tried already by Ross Ulbricht and failed. I don't see any reason, why this would be different in PoM's case.
Edit 3: Now that we know, that PoM actually IS VJ, his actions esp his emails to Serrin Turner and his postings here before his arrest makes no sense to me.

[Munchy]

[Munchy]

so I'm wondering why he would make such a statement of admission... how could this possibly benefit him?

well one thought came to mind... what if his Diamond tale was true, could this be a necessary step towards making a deal to testify against him, in exchange for leniency?

[Munchy]

... now he was getting serious about this kidnapping thing, and it was time to bite the bullet.

In this case, biting the bullet was turning myself in, because writing an anonymous postcard wasn't going to cut it. If I was to keep him from kidnapping those two women, which he'd do if I didn't turn myself over to him, I was going to have to turn myself over to the DOJ folks, so they could take the appropriate action to protect those people, and maybe even figure out just who this sick fuck was, and stop him.

[smokebreaks]

We'll get back to your regularly scheduled discussion in a few, but I'm gonna sift through a bit of this before I get to posting a whole lot of info regarding the case that PoM is waging..

He seems to be arguing that they violated his constitutional rights and is gonna mount an interesting counterpoint that the evidence the US Gov has acquired was acquired without a warrant and that much of the prosecution evidence should be inadmissible.

The funny part, (not funny ha-ha but funny odd) that I've come across is that in his defense attorneys' motion, there's a fair chunk of information that is redacted from the public purview regarding how they got access to the Icelandic server.

A violation of the pen tap laws and an intrusion on PoM's reasonable expectation of privacy.

Interesting choice of defense.

..more later...

[smokebreaks]

So as I said... more later...

After reading through the 200 or so pages, PoM it seems has his court appointed lawyer to be fighting the same fight that Ross' attorney did.

Will Mongoose and his, yeah, I did it and I wasn't an employee but rather an owner be successful in arguing that the evidence that the US Govt has against him was illegally obtained?

Probably not.

Ballsy move thou...

Some interesting tidbits from all the exhibits, a couple of those are redacted too...

All are provided here in a zip file from PACER.gov.

I paid the $16.00 so you don't have to.

[Munchy]

thank you!

[Jesús Malverde]

The lengths Tarbell goes to to assert that the discovery of the server IP addy was *solely* accomplished using a leak of the homepage UI via CAPTCHA suggests an acute awareness that this point is meaningful in terms of the data taken from that server's subsequent admissability. Clark's team is clearly trying to poison the fruit of that server/tree at that early point.

You can see a potted bio of the defense team's forensic expert Joshua Michel, here- http://www.roloffdf.com/digital-forensics-examiners/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;