A damsel in distress. Plural of Mongoose Update.

Rant and Rave about The Canna Trade.
User avatar
smokebreaks
The Big Cheese
Karma God
Karma God
Custom Title: High Society Stoner
Has bestowed Karma : 184 times
Received Karma : 338 times
Posts: 3009
Joined: Wed May 20, 2009 1:18 pm

A damsel in distress. Plural of Mongoose Update.

Post by smokebreaks »

You can see from Michel's brief to the court that Tarbell's claims seem to have a bit of discrepency..

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Indictment No.
v . 1 5 - c r - 8 6 6 (WHP)

DECLARATION
ROGER THOMAS CLARK,
Defendant.

I, JOSHUA L. MICHEL, declare under penalty of perjury, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §1746, that the following is true and correct:


read it all at the link provided.
michel.pdf
(1.22 MiB) Downloaded 57 times
GOVERNMENT WARNING: Marijuana use can cause complex thoughts leading to better ideas of how to live your life. Caution, free thinking has been routinely reported with continued use.


AlwaysBlue
some karma
some karma
Received Karma : 5 times
Posts: 27
Joined: Sat Nov 10, 2018 6:13 am

A damsel in distress. Plural of Mongoose Update.

Post by AlwaysBlue »

greetings

there seem to be some new docs on PACER about this case. could someone with a PACER account please post them

thank you

User avatar
Munchy
Board Administrator
Karma God
Karma God
Custom Title: Golden Member
Location: ~Sims Universe~
Has bestowed Karma : 470 times
Received Karma : 957 times
Posts: 3998
Joined: Thu May 21, 2009 1:55 am

A damsel in distress. Plural of Mongoose Update.

Post by Munchy »

^^~ bump ~^^
Prohibition is Futile Image THC will be Assimilated
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ How To Pass Drug Tests ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. -Albert Einstein

User avatar
smokebreaks
The Big Cheese
Karma God
Karma God
Custom Title: High Society Stoner
Has bestowed Karma : 184 times
Received Karma : 338 times
Posts: 3009
Joined: Wed May 20, 2009 1:18 pm

A damsel in distress. Plural of Mongoose Update.

Post by smokebreaks »

his lawyer got the flu and asked for a weeks delay to write their response to the USA's contentions to Mongoose's I owned the site defense.
GOVERNMENT WARNING: Marijuana use can cause complex thoughts leading to better ideas of how to live your life. Caution, free thinking has been routinely reported with continued use.

User avatar
Jesús Malverde
Site Moderator
Karma Bhudda
Karma Bhudda
Custom Title: Munchy Sock since OG lol
Has bestowed Karma : 70 times
Received Karma : 131 times
Posts: 2469
Joined: Fri May 27, 2011 6:59 pm

A damsel in distress. Plural of Mongoose Update.

Post by Jesús Malverde »

Hold on. "I owned the site defense"? At first blush that sounds like a shit tactic.
One for the rook

One for the crow

One to rot

and one to grow

User avatar
smokebreaks
The Big Cheese
Karma God
Karma God
Custom Title: High Society Stoner
Has bestowed Karma : 184 times
Received Karma : 338 times
Posts: 3009
Joined: Wed May 20, 2009 1:18 pm

A damsel in distress. Plural of Mongoose Update.

Post by smokebreaks »

there's a lot of shit tactics employed like seeking to dismiss evidence because it violates his 4th amendment rights against search and seizures..

The US seems to believe that he's not afforded that as a constitutional right since he's a Canadian citizen who was picked up in Asia.
GOVERNMENT WARNING: Marijuana use can cause complex thoughts leading to better ideas of how to live your life. Caution, free thinking has been routinely reported with continued use.

AlwaysBlue
some karma
some karma
Received Karma : 5 times
Posts: 27
Joined: Sat Nov 10, 2018 6:13 am

A damsel in distress. Plural of Mongoose Update.

Post by AlwaysBlue »

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/se ... eral-court" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

User avatar
Munchy
Board Administrator
Karma God
Karma God
Custom Title: Golden Member
Location: ~Sims Universe~
Has bestowed Karma : 470 times
Received Karma : 957 times
Posts: 3998
Joined: Thu May 21, 2009 1:55 am

A damsel in distress. Plural of Mongoose Update.

Post by Munchy »

Thanks AlwaysBlue, here is the text from the above link:

Department of Justice
U.S. Attorney’s Office
Southern District of New York

Thursday, January 30, 2020
Senior Adviser To The Operator Of The “Silk Road” Website Pleads Guilty In Manhattan Federal Court
Roger Thomas Clark Was a Key Figure in the Development of Silk Road, Advised Ross Ulbricht on All Aspects of the Criminal Enterprise, and Urged and Facilitated an Attempted Murder-for-Hire
Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ROGER THOMAS CLARK, a/k/a “Plural of Mongoose,” a/k/a “Variety Jones,” a/k/a “VJ,” a/k/a “cimon,” pled guilty today to conspiring to distribute massive quantities of narcotics, a charge arising out of his role as the senior adviser to the owner and operator of the “Silk Road” online illicit black market. During its operation from 2011 until 2013, Silk Road was used by thousands of drug dealers and other unlawful vendors to distribute illegal drugs and other illicit goods and services to more than 100,000 buyers, and to launder hundreds of millions of dollars derived from those unlawful transactions. CLARK pled guilty before United States District Judge William H. Pauley III.

Manhattan U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman said: “Silk Road was a secret online marketplace for illegal drugs, hacking services, and a whole host of other criminal activity. As he admitted today, Roger Thomas Clark was a central figure in helping to lead Silk Road and in advocating violence to protect the site. Clark even went so far as to urge, and facilitate, the attempted killing of a co-conspirator suspected of stealing from Silk Road. Clark’s arrest, extradition from Thailand, and conviction should make it clear that the purported anonymity of the dark web is not a protective shield from prosecution.”

According to the allegations in the Superseding Indictment, court filings, statements made in court, and evidence presented during the 2015 trial of Ross Ulbricht, Silk Road’s founder:

Ulbricht created Silk Road in approximately January 2011, and owned and operated the underground website until it was shut down by law enforcement authorities in October 2013. Silk Road emerged as the most sophisticated and extensive criminal marketplace on the Internet at the time, serving as a sprawling black market bazaar where unlawful goods and services, including illegal drugs of virtually all varieties, were bought and sold regularly by the site’s users. While in operation, Silk Road was used by thousands of drug dealers and other unlawful vendors to distribute hundreds of kilograms of illegal drugs and other unlawful goods and services to well over 100,000 buyers, and to launder hundreds of millions of dollars deriving from these unlawful transactions.

Silk Road enabled its users to buy and sell drugs and other illegal goods and services anonymously and outside the reach of law enforcement. Silk Road was operated on what is known as “The Onion Router,” or “Tor” network, a special network of computers on the Internet, distributed around the world, designed to conceal the true IP addresses of the computers on the network and thereby the identities of the networks’ users. Silk Road also included a Bitcoin-based payment system that served to facilitate the illegal commerce conducted on the site, including by concealing the identities and locations of the users transmitting and receiving funds through the site.

CLARK – who went by the online nicknames “Variety Jones,” “VJ,” “Cimon,” “Plural of Mongoose,” and “CaptainSargeant” – was described by Ulbricht as a “real mentor” who advised Ulbricht about, among other things, security vulnerabilities in the Silk Road site, technical infrastructure, the rules that governed Silk Road users and vendors, and the promotion of sales on Silk Road, including the sales of narcotics. CLARK also provided advice to Ulbricht on developing a “cover story” to make it appear as though Ulbricht had sold Silk Road. CLARK also assisted with hiring programmers to help improve the infrastructure of, and maintain, Silk Road. CLARK also was responsible for gathering information on law enforcement’s efforts to investigate Silk Road. And CLARK advised Ulbricht on how to protect the Silk Road empire. For instance, when a Silk Road staff member was suspected of stealing $350,000 in Bitcoin from the site, CLARK suggested to Ulbricht that Ulbricht commission a murder-for-hire. Ulbricht took that suggestion. (Ultimately, unbeknownst to both men, the attempted murder-for-hire did not result in any harm to the target.)

CLARK was paid at least hundreds of thousands of dollars for his assistance in operating Silk Road.

CLARK, 56, a citizen of Canada, pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute narcotics, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. The maximum potential sentence in this case is prescribed by Congress and is provided here for informational purposes only, as any sentencing of the defendant will be determined by the judge. CLARK is scheduled to be sentenced by Judge Pauley on May 29, 2020, at 11:00 a.m.

:frown:
Prohibition is Futile Image THC will be Assimilated
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ How To Pass Drug Tests ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. -Albert Einstein

AGD
good karma
good karma
Custom Title: nOT-a-BoT
Has bestowed Karma : 1 time
Received Karma : 1 time
Posts: 202
Joined: Mon Sep 21, 2015 3:05 am

A damsel in distress. Plural of Mongoose Update.

Post by AGD »

If it wasn't a corrupt cop, that faked that hit on Curtis Green, he would have been charged for murder, like Ross. Both thought the hit was carried out until they learned they were cheated. :fubird: :arse:

Post Reply