The judge in the SR case has apparently been doxed and threatened.
The federal judge overseeing the Silk Road case against Ross Ulbricht has been subject to a death threat, and apparently she had her private information exposed on a “Hidden Wiki” website accessible only via Tor-equipped browsers. The same information is available on the open web through at least one website that pulls information from the Tor network.
“Katherine Bolan Forrest is the judge who is unfairly ruining Ross Ulbricht’s life and chance for a fair trial,” wrote an editor on the hidden wiki who goes by the moniker ServingJustice. ServingJustice became angry at Forrest after July rulings that favored prosecutors. He wrote:
Can Ulbricht really be accused of running a drug-selling conspiracy when he (ALLEGEDLY) merely ran a website that made the narcotics sales possible? And can he be charged with money laundering when bitcoin doesn’t necessarily meet the requisite definition of money?’ According to Forrest’s latest ruling, yes and yes…
Justice is not being served, Ross Ulbricht is a hard working honest man who is now a fall guy that the US government decided to choose because he had a large amount of bitcoins, a currency they are doing everything in their power to make illegal.
Without further ado, fuck this stupid bitch and I hope some drug cartel that lost a lot of money with the seizure of silk road will murder this lady and her entire family.
He then posted “dox” on Forrest, revealing a Social Security number, date of birth, and a residential addresses he says are associated with Forrest (screenshot below).
“I can also get information on all of this lady’s relatives and maybe some of her close friends, so expect more releases over doxbin and this wiki,” ServingJustice continued. “For right now just steal her identity and send her gifts in the mail 😉 Expect phone numbers and relatives SSNs and complete doxes in a future release… Oh, and maybe someone should attempt a Swat just to put this bitch in her place.”
USA v. Ross William Ulbricht
Silk Road was a website that offered all types of illicit drugs for sale. It was only accessible by browsers equipped with Tor, a program that anonymizes one’s Web usage. The only currency accepted on Silk Road was Bitcoin, and the site supposedly made tens of millions of dollars by taking a small commission on each sale.
Federal agents busted Silk Road in October of last year. Prosecutors accused Ross Ulbricht of being the “Dread Pirate Roberts” who administered the website, arresting him in a San Francisco public library. He’s also accused of attempting a murder-for-hire against a former employee, paying $80,000 for the execution of a man who was actually an undercover law enforcement officer.
Ulbricht is now incarcerated in Brooklyn, awaiting a January trial date in Forrest’s courtroom.
Despite the threats by ServingJustice to continue to unload private information related to Forrest and her family, nothing significant has been added to the wiki page since it went up on July 30.
The threat page remains published on The Hidden Wiki today, essentially unchanged since July. A redacted version was published on the open Web last week, by DeepDotWeb, a site that supplies information about “Darknet Marketplaces,” including Silk Road.
Threatening a US federal judge, or a judge’s family, is illegal. A spokeswoman for the US Marshals Service said the organization was aware of the threats posed but could not discuss any measures taken for security reasons. A phone call to Judge Forrest’s chambers was not returned. Ulbricht’s defense attorney did not respond to an e-mail inquiry about the threat page.
