And lest any of you think this is "old news" or "not relevant"...
From yesterday, 5/27:
http://www.coindesk.com/us-court-decision-mt-gox-revival-bids/
"A US bankruptcy court has rejected a filing from Seattle-based digital currency service CoinLab Inc. in the latest development in the case of failed Japan-based bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox.
CoinLab sought to stop investor group Sunlot Holdings from purchasing Mt. Gox in documents filed during a 27th May hearing in US Bankruptcy Court in Dallas, Texas."
CoinLab’s filing seemingly aimed to stop or at least delay an effort by SunLot Holdings, a group of investors that includes venture capitalists John Betts and William Quigley and the Bitcoin Foundation’s Industry Director-elect Brock Pierce, from purchasing Mt. Gox and its related liabilities.
In its filing, CoinLab said that Sunlot’s bid to purchase Mt. Gox was not qualified to handle the investigation required to seek the location of the failed exchange’s missing bitcoins, explaining:
“Sunlot has made no showing of its qualifications to manage and conduct such an investigation, let alone answered pressing questions about potential conflicts of interest it has suffered or may suffer.”
Additionally, the company objected to the investor group’s plan to retain a portion of any funds recovered from Mt. Gox and its related entities during any forthcoming discovery."
Topic: A Summary of Phinnaeus Gage's Investigation into Brock Pierce Thus Far - page 8. (Read 27651 times)
May 27, 2014, 09:13:23 PM
May 27, 2014, 09:01:58 PM
***
Consider this the Third Installment (but hardly the last) in what has already been an exhilarating detective series:
Part I:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/more-proof-that-savegoxcom-is-a-sham-590970 (More Proof That Savegox.com Is A Sham)
by Phinnaeus Gage
Part II:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/all-things-considered-brock-pierce-et-al-wpoll-610521 (All Things Considered, Brock Pierce et al)
Part II compiled these reports which were NOT penned by PG:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/25cwzi/the_full_shady_history_of_brock_pierce/
by /u/howmanyproxies
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/25j38c/exposing_the_buffalo_club_shocking_evidence_links/
"Exposing the Buffalo Club: Shocking Evidence Links Brock Pierce, Other Bitcoin Investors to Marc Collins-Rector"
by /u/lolbuffaloJA
lolbuffaloJA has kindly provided us with an Imgur account containing all relevant screenshots of the Buffalo Club's disturbing activity on FB, thus allowing any curious soul to play a fun game of True Detective: http://lolbuffaloja.imgur.com/all/
***
In the week or two since these original posts, PG and others have uncovered mountains of circumstantial evidence linking various actors within the nascent Bitcoin economy. As this information was spread across multiple threads, I wanted to take a moment to compile all of it before it got too confusing for the uninitiated.
The following summary will try to bring together evidence uncovered in these threads by PG and others:
"Finally! One of the top porn stars accepts and promotes Bitcoin." by PG, 5/17
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/finally-one-of-the-top-porn-stars-accepts-and-promotes-bitcoin-613130
NOTABLE INFO: The man pictured with BTC-loving porn star Kayden Kross is Ken Feldman, acolyte of Brock Pierce's Bitropolis in Santa Monica, and former Burning Man bestie of Autumn Radtke (RIP)
ALSO NOTABLE (just found this):
http://www.clubxxxnews.com/18/kayden-kross-faces-felony-charges-in-mortgage-scam/
https://web.archive.org/web/20081023164018/http://scottfayner.com/?p=517
Verified here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayden_Kross
Looks like Kayden Kross (aka kimberly nicole rathkamp) had a brush with the law over some felony real estate scams in the late 2000s. I wonder who her accomplices were? (and who's her baby daddy? the handsome man in the picture?)
"Was Autumn Radtke murdered due to something she knew about Brock Pierce, et al.?" by PG, 5/22
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/was-autumn-radtke-murdered-due-to-something-she-knew-about-brock-pierce-et-al-620267
NOTABLE INFO: just read it. Among other things, we learn that Autumn has been friends with Brock Pierce, Michael Terpin (founder of BitAngels and Michael Jackson enthusiast), and Ken Feldman since at least 2008, when they all went on a trip to Egypt together, proof of which is on Brock's public FB (and embedded in this thread).
By his own admission, Steve Beauregard (Co-founder/co-owner of GoCoin, alongside Brock Pierce) was the last person to see Autumn Radtke alive in Singapore. He had been renting a room in her home/office for several months while trying to establish GoCoin's new home base in Singapore.
Steve was also quick to tell every journalist who interviewed him that "it looks like she chose a short-term solution to a long-term problem", thus coyly verifying early news reports that she had committed suicide. Shortly thereafter, the police in Singapore clarified that they were not classifying her death a suicide, but rather an "unnatural death" with no foul play expected...because highly talented CEOs under 30 have a tendency to leap off of buildings they don't live in. But why split hairs! Two days after Autumn's death, Mt. Gox shocks the world by filing for bankruptcy.
Moving on...
"I just paid the $100K USD via BTC to become a Platinum Member of TBF." by PG, 5/23
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/i-just-paid-the-100k-usd-via-btc-to-become-a-platinum-member-of-tbf-621770
NOTABLE INFO: This one is a gem. PG claims that he has purchased a Platinum Membership for TBF, the only entity besides KnCMiner (co-owned by Brock Pierce) to ever do so. After challenging users to look up his transaction on Blockchain.info for a good 24 hours, it becomes clear that PG is strate trollen us.
Most importantly, this brilliant trollmove forced users to search TBF's official address for the other $100k membership payment. Surprise surprise, KnC's $100,000 payment for Platinum Membership (supposedly paid a day or two before the elections that Brock won) is nowhere to be found. This raises a simple yet fascinating question: did they ever pay it at all, and if so, why didn't they pay to the public donation address as required?
"Breaking News! Thief nabbed while breaking into SilkRoad's vault: Caught on film" by PG, 5/25
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/breaking-news-thief-nabbed-while-breaking-into-silkroads-vault-caught-on-film-624279
NOTABLE INFO: While this thread starts off with what seems like a bizarre joke about Batman, it's worth reading in its entirety. The Batman Make-A-Wish stunt was conducted in a San Francisco building which happens to house the offices of Silk Road Equity - one of the chief backers behind Sunlot Holdings Ltd. More on that later.
On 5/26, the Willy Report was published, outlining in detail the overwhelming evidence of automated price manipulation on Mt. Gox during the great Bitcoin Rally of late 2013.
"The Willy Report...What do you guys make of it?", 5/26
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.6954910
NOTABLE INFO: Nothing direct, but it's interesting context in light of these other revelations.
Finally, we have this: "Remember the subpoenas last year? Why one name was on the list." by PG, 5/27
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/remember-the-subpoenas-last-year-why-one-name-was-on-the-list-626554
Now, let's circle back to Sunlot for a moment. As mentioned in the "Breaking News" thread, a perusal of Sunlot's rehabilitation plan (leaked against their wishes) reveals some interesting names.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/219613733/sunlot-holdings-proposed-rehabilitation-plan-ENGLISH#fullscreen
http://www.goxdox.org/2014/04/mtgox-to-be-acquired-by-silk-road.html
http://www.goxdox.org/
One name in particular piqued my interest: Louis J. Freeh, of Freeh Group International.
For those of you who need a refresher in American politics, that's this guy:
http://www.zpub.com/un/freeh-wp.jpg
Louis J. Freeh, the 5th Director of the FBI. Appointed by Clinton in 1993, stepped down shortly after 9/11 and entered the world of private security contracting thereafter.
In the English version of Sunlot's MtGox proposal, located on page 22, Sunlot promises this:
"A complex forensic investigation of MTGOX company handled by the new, highly experience[sic] management and a consulting partner."
And who, pray tell, will be handling this complex forensic investigation?
Page 17: "Freeh Group: Cooperation with forensic (digital) investigations and
enforcement, and compliance"
So Sunlot's cast of characters includes a former FBI director who I'm SURE doesn't have loads of friends still serving in the Obama Justice Department (given that he was a Clinton appointee, after all). Cute.
But at least we can count on major media outlets reporting on Sunlot impartially, right? It's not like Sunlot has tons of high-value relationships with the people running most of the major news rooms in the U.S., right?
Page 18: "Sitrick and Company executives are broadly experienced professionals from the media and corporate worlds. Senior executives have served as officers and directors of private or publicly-traded companies, as former litigators and as reporters in the news media, editors and producers at such news organizations as the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, San Jose Mercury News, Detroit Free Press, Chicago Tribune, Bloomberg, Dow Jones, Miami Herald, NBC Television, the China Morning News and various Central and South American media."
Well, shit.
Wonder who else is helping with Sunlot's PR? Try Endeavor Strategic Communications.
AKA the unofficial Agitprop unit of Andrew Breitbart and many other well-paid Tea Party mouthbreathers in the mainstream media. These guys have been a driving force behind the endless Benghazi news cycles. (SEE HOW IT ALL COMES BACK TO BENGHAZI??? lol)
How the hell did an ultraconservative (NOT libertarian), astroturfy Washington PR firm get convinced to jump onboard with Sunlot? Your guess is as good as mine.
I might as well mention a couple other names on the Sunlot list:
Perseus Telecom - "secure hosting"
[Suspicious link removed]j.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303496804579365692234452018
http://perseustelecom.com/
They're one of the biggest High Frequency Trading companies on Wall Street.
Kinda reminds me of this recent bestseller: http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/apr/16/michael-lewis-flash-boys-wall-street-insane
http://perseustelecom.com/about-us/management-team/
Note: Karen Bertoli, CMO. I bet if you search Steve Beauregard's FB hard enough, you might find a picture of them together around May 8-10 in London...
Amanda Coolong - specialist PR advisor (total Santa Monica bestie of Brock, Bitropolis, and BitAngels, founding partner at TechZulu)
https://www.facebook.com/acoolong
She's quite a busy journalist these days:
http://techzulu.com/tonight-brock-pierce-gocoin-host-oakland-mayoral-candidate-bryan-parker/
But has time to plug for Brock AND Ken Rutkowski:
http://techzulu.com/ken-rutkowski-launches-business-rockstars-academy/
And let's not forget: Yantis Enterprises (yep, that Jonathan Yantis of the IGE glory days)
You still may be asking "what the fuck does all this mean?"
I will answer that shortly, but know this for now: May 8th and May 13th were potentially very important days in history of Bitcoin.
***TL;DR*** (by popular demand)
As evidenced in the earlier posts linked up top, Brock Pierce has a long and morbid history of associating with some very shady - some would say evil - people, most notably Marc Collins-Rector (more on him subsequently). In addition to the child-rape fiasco that was DEN Entertainment, Pierce was also sued for various frauds surrounding IGE, his digital commodities empire from the mid-2000s. Pierce settled with Debonneville (his former partner) out of court for an undisclosed amount of money, went low-profile for a few years, and then magically re-emerged in June 2013 as the Bitcoin Butterfly (or is it Bitcoin Buffalo? jaja), a savvy Millennial Messiah who was hellbent on taking Bitcoin to the Next Level.
So now Brock Pierce's newest investor group, Sunlot Holdings Ltd, wants to purchase legal ownership of the liabilities (and assets) of Mt. Gox, presumably to "make the customers whole".
It turns out that this generous yet shadowy group of One Percenters (Sunlot) includes a former FBI director, Louis J. Freeh, on its advisory team. Freeh's job will be to spearhead the "digital forensics" aspect of the Mt. Gox Rehabilitation Plan.
Digging deeper, the disclosed list of Sunlot investors reads like a who's who of big-time establishment players from Wall Street and the National Security industry.
It's worth noting that virtually none of this has been publicly disclosed by Sunlot in any way. The settlement proposals were anonymously leaked onto the internet (www.doxgox.org). This means that Sunlot did not necessarily want anyone in the wider bitcoin community to know who they really were.
So with all that said, how do you feel knowing that one of the new Board Members of TBF has teamed up with a former FBI director turned "private" (lol) security contractor in order to "help" Bitcoin users?
Might this have something to do with Marc Rector and "Brock Rector" being low-key FB friends with some fellas who have FBI and DIA pictures plastered all over their profiles?
http://i.imgur.com/zcLZCpN.png
http://i.imgur.com/fSSLGsb.png
http://i.imgur.com/FZc9wDK.png
***
To be continued.......(jajaja)
Consider this the Third Installment (but hardly the last) in what has already been an exhilarating detective series:
Part I:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/more-proof-that-savegoxcom-is-a-sham-590970 (More Proof That Savegox.com Is A Sham)
by Phinnaeus Gage
Part II:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/all-things-considered-brock-pierce-et-al-wpoll-610521 (All Things Considered, Brock Pierce et al)
Part II compiled these reports which were NOT penned by PG:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/25cwzi/the_full_shady_history_of_brock_pierce/
by /u/howmanyproxies
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/25j38c/exposing_the_buffalo_club_shocking_evidence_links/
"Exposing the Buffalo Club: Shocking Evidence Links Brock Pierce, Other Bitcoin Investors to Marc Collins-Rector"
by /u/lolbuffaloJA
lolbuffaloJA has kindly provided us with an Imgur account containing all relevant screenshots of the Buffalo Club's disturbing activity on FB, thus allowing any curious soul to play a fun game of True Detective: http://lolbuffaloja.imgur.com/all/
***
In the week or two since these original posts, PG and others have uncovered mountains of circumstantial evidence linking various actors within the nascent Bitcoin economy. As this information was spread across multiple threads, I wanted to take a moment to compile all of it before it got too confusing for the uninitiated.
The following summary will try to bring together evidence uncovered in these threads by PG and others:
"Finally! One of the top porn stars accepts and promotes Bitcoin." by PG, 5/17
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/finally-one-of-the-top-porn-stars-accepts-and-promotes-bitcoin-613130
NOTABLE INFO: The man pictured with BTC-loving porn star Kayden Kross is Ken Feldman, acolyte of Brock Pierce's Bitropolis in Santa Monica, and former Burning Man bestie of Autumn Radtke (RIP)
ALSO NOTABLE (just found this):
http://www.clubxxxnews.com/18/kayden-kross-faces-felony-charges-in-mortgage-scam/
https://web.archive.org/web/20081023164018/http://scottfayner.com/?p=517
Verified here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayden_Kross
Looks like Kayden Kross (aka kimberly nicole rathkamp) had a brush with the law over some felony real estate scams in the late 2000s. I wonder who her accomplices were? (and who's her baby daddy? the handsome man in the picture?)
"Was Autumn Radtke murdered due to something she knew about Brock Pierce, et al.?" by PG, 5/22
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/was-autumn-radtke-murdered-due-to-something-she-knew-about-brock-pierce-et-al-620267
NOTABLE INFO: just read it. Among other things, we learn that Autumn has been friends with Brock Pierce, Michael Terpin (founder of BitAngels and Michael Jackson enthusiast), and Ken Feldman since at least 2008, when they all went on a trip to Egypt together, proof of which is on Brock's public FB (and embedded in this thread).
By his own admission, Steve Beauregard (Co-founder/co-owner of GoCoin, alongside Brock Pierce) was the last person to see Autumn Radtke alive in Singapore. He had been renting a room in her home/office for several months while trying to establish GoCoin's new home base in Singapore.
Steve was also quick to tell every journalist who interviewed him that "it looks like she chose a short-term solution to a long-term problem", thus coyly verifying early news reports that she had committed suicide. Shortly thereafter, the police in Singapore clarified that they were not classifying her death a suicide, but rather an "unnatural death" with no foul play expected...because highly talented CEOs under 30 have a tendency to leap off of buildings they don't live in. But why split hairs! Two days after Autumn's death, Mt. Gox shocks the world by filing for bankruptcy.
Moving on...
"I just paid the $100K USD via BTC to become a Platinum Member of TBF." by PG, 5/23
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/i-just-paid-the-100k-usd-via-btc-to-become-a-platinum-member-of-tbf-621770
NOTABLE INFO: This one is a gem. PG claims that he has purchased a Platinum Membership for TBF, the only entity besides KnCMiner (co-owned by Brock Pierce) to ever do so. After challenging users to look up his transaction on Blockchain.info for a good 24 hours, it becomes clear that PG is strate trollen us.
Most importantly, this brilliant trollmove forced users to search TBF's official address for the other $100k membership payment. Surprise surprise, KnC's $100,000 payment for Platinum Membership (supposedly paid a day or two before the elections that Brock won) is nowhere to be found. This raises a simple yet fascinating question: did they ever pay it at all, and if so, why didn't they pay to the public donation address as required?
"Breaking News! Thief nabbed while breaking into SilkRoad's vault: Caught on film" by PG, 5/25
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/breaking-news-thief-nabbed-while-breaking-into-silkroads-vault-caught-on-film-624279
NOTABLE INFO: While this thread starts off with what seems like a bizarre joke about Batman, it's worth reading in its entirety. The Batman Make-A-Wish stunt was conducted in a San Francisco building which happens to house the offices of Silk Road Equity - one of the chief backers behind Sunlot Holdings Ltd. More on that later.
On 5/26, the Willy Report was published, outlining in detail the overwhelming evidence of automated price manipulation on Mt. Gox during the great Bitcoin Rally of late 2013.
"The Willy Report...What do you guys make of it?", 5/26
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.6954910
NOTABLE INFO: Nothing direct, but it's interesting context in light of these other revelations.
Finally, we have this: "Remember the subpoenas last year? Why one name was on the list." by PG, 5/27
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/remember-the-subpoenas-last-year-why-one-name-was-on-the-list-626554
Now, let's circle back to Sunlot for a moment. As mentioned in the "Breaking News" thread, a perusal of Sunlot's rehabilitation plan (leaked against their wishes) reveals some interesting names.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/219613733/sunlot-holdings-proposed-rehabilitation-plan-ENGLISH#fullscreen
http://www.goxdox.org/2014/04/mtgox-to-be-acquired-by-silk-road.html
http://www.goxdox.org/
One name in particular piqued my interest: Louis J. Freeh, of Freeh Group International.
For those of you who need a refresher in American politics, that's this guy:
http://www.zpub.com/un/freeh-wp.jpg
Louis J. Freeh, the 5th Director of the FBI. Appointed by Clinton in 1993, stepped down shortly after 9/11 and entered the world of private security contracting thereafter.
In the English version of Sunlot's MtGox proposal, located on page 22, Sunlot promises this:
"A complex forensic investigation of MTGOX company handled by the new, highly experience[sic] management and a consulting partner."
And who, pray tell, will be handling this complex forensic investigation?
Page 17: "Freeh Group: Cooperation with forensic (digital) investigations and
enforcement, and compliance"
So Sunlot's cast of characters includes a former FBI director who I'm SURE doesn't have loads of friends still serving in the Obama Justice Department (given that he was a Clinton appointee, after all). Cute.
But at least we can count on major media outlets reporting on Sunlot impartially, right? It's not like Sunlot has tons of high-value relationships with the people running most of the major news rooms in the U.S., right?
Page 18: "Sitrick and Company executives are broadly experienced professionals from the media and corporate worlds. Senior executives have served as officers and directors of private or publicly-traded companies, as former litigators and as reporters in the news media, editors and producers at such news organizations as the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, San Jose Mercury News, Detroit Free Press, Chicago Tribune, Bloomberg, Dow Jones, Miami Herald, NBC Television, the China Morning News and various Central and South American media."
Well, shit.
Wonder who else is helping with Sunlot's PR? Try Endeavor Strategic Communications.
AKA the unofficial Agitprop unit of Andrew Breitbart and many other well-paid Tea Party mouthbreathers in the mainstream media. These guys have been a driving force behind the endless Benghazi news cycles. (SEE HOW IT ALL COMES BACK TO BENGHAZI??? lol)
How the hell did an ultraconservative (NOT libertarian), astroturfy Washington PR firm get convinced to jump onboard with Sunlot? Your guess is as good as mine.
I might as well mention a couple other names on the Sunlot list:
Perseus Telecom - "secure hosting"
[Suspicious link removed]j.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303496804579365692234452018
http://perseustelecom.com/
They're one of the biggest High Frequency Trading companies on Wall Street.
Kinda reminds me of this recent bestseller: http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/apr/16/michael-lewis-flash-boys-wall-street-insane
http://perseustelecom.com/about-us/management-team/
Note: Karen Bertoli, CMO. I bet if you search Steve Beauregard's FB hard enough, you might find a picture of them together around May 8-10 in London...
Amanda Coolong - specialist PR advisor (total Santa Monica bestie of Brock, Bitropolis, and BitAngels, founding partner at TechZulu)
https://www.facebook.com/acoolong
She's quite a busy journalist these days:
http://techzulu.com/tonight-brock-pierce-gocoin-host-oakland-mayoral-candidate-bryan-parker/
But has time to plug for Brock AND Ken Rutkowski:
http://techzulu.com/ken-rutkowski-launches-business-rockstars-academy/
And let's not forget: Yantis Enterprises (yep, that Jonathan Yantis of the IGE glory days)
You still may be asking "what the fuck does all this mean?"
I will answer that shortly, but know this for now: May 8th and May 13th were potentially very important days in history of Bitcoin.
***TL;DR*** (by popular demand)
As evidenced in the earlier posts linked up top, Brock Pierce has a long and morbid history of associating with some very shady - some would say evil - people, most notably Marc Collins-Rector (more on him subsequently). In addition to the child-rape fiasco that was DEN Entertainment, Pierce was also sued for various frauds surrounding IGE, his digital commodities empire from the mid-2000s. Pierce settled with Debonneville (his former partner) out of court for an undisclosed amount of money, went low-profile for a few years, and then magically re-emerged in June 2013 as the Bitcoin Butterfly (or is it Bitcoin Buffalo? jaja), a savvy Millennial Messiah who was hellbent on taking Bitcoin to the Next Level.
So now Brock Pierce's newest investor group, Sunlot Holdings Ltd, wants to purchase legal ownership of the liabilities (and assets) of Mt. Gox, presumably to "make the customers whole".
It turns out that this generous yet shadowy group of One Percenters (Sunlot) includes a former FBI director, Louis J. Freeh, on its advisory team. Freeh's job will be to spearhead the "digital forensics" aspect of the Mt. Gox Rehabilitation Plan.
Digging deeper, the disclosed list of Sunlot investors reads like a who's who of big-time establishment players from Wall Street and the National Security industry.
It's worth noting that virtually none of this has been publicly disclosed by Sunlot in any way. The settlement proposals were anonymously leaked onto the internet (www.doxgox.org). This means that Sunlot did not necessarily want anyone in the wider bitcoin community to know who they really were.
So with all that said, how do you feel knowing that one of the new Board Members of TBF has teamed up with a former FBI director turned "private" (lol) security contractor in order to "help" Bitcoin users?
Might this have something to do with Marc Rector and "Brock Rector" being low-key FB friends with some fellas who have FBI and DIA pictures plastered all over their profiles?
http://i.imgur.com/zcLZCpN.png
http://i.imgur.com/fSSLGsb.png
http://i.imgur.com/FZc9wDK.png
***
To be continued.......(jajaja)
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