So, a month on from the arrests of the principal BitClub scammers, an update.
Russ Medlin is still at large, according to the Feds, and
is believed to be residing in a country that does not have extradition with the United States, and has access to enormous wealth and two private planes.
This is Russ Medlin
And Jobadiah (Joby) Weeks wants out of pretrial detention. He's looking at 15 to 25 years.
This is Weeks (on the right
)
Weeks' main argument for release is that he wasn't really that big a deal in BitClub, just "one of 100's" of foot soldiers kept in the dark etc.etc. and is just a Colorado home boy who poses no flight risk.
The DoJ disagreed and checked out his Colorado "home" address, asked around..
When law enforcement officers went to Weeks’ purported “home” in Aurora, Colorado on December 10, 2019 they were met not by members of the Weeks family, but instead by several individuals who said that they rarely see Weeks at that residence, that he certainly did not live at that residence, and that he visited the residence only a few times a year.
One of the disadvantages of being a run-your-mouth-off conman like Weeks is that the Internet Never Forgets. (Even when you try to scrub it like Weeks has, successfully in terms of his earlier history. When I was originally, 5 years ago, researching him there was substantial on line information about his priviledged upbringing and his early frauds, including his Ron Paul limo scam. Can't find them, didn't archive them...)
In the last two years my wife and I have visited 400+ cities and over 100+ countries.
We basically fly around the world on private jets selling machines that print money. Who wouldn’t like to have a machine that prints money?”
Of course, Weeks is politically motivated, not just a thieving, lying amoral fucker. He's a Libertarian...
BitClub pays all of our members around the world daily, tax free.
Despite what you may have been told, America is, unfortunately, no longer a free country.
If you are a U.S. CITIZENS [sic] with a SS# (Slave Surveillance Number) Then you may get in trouble with your masters at the IRS for making a bunch of Bitcoin tax free.
As a precaution, we have decided to block people using ip addressed based in the USA from joining Bitclub.
We understand U.S. CITIZENS are property and we don’t want any trouble with your owners.
BitClub quickly and publically stated that U.S. citizens should not try to invest with them. (Pseudo compliance).
They were
making stealing enough money elsewhere around the world not to tempt fate, but Weeks the ideologue had other advice for would be U.S. based vicitims
Investor: I have always been a residence of the US [sic]. How am I supposed to get around this.
Weeks: United States is Washington DC, Virgin Islands, Guam, Samoa, Puerto Rico. (Do you live there)
US CITIZENS are corporations that are domiciled in the UNITED STATES. Are you a corporation or are you a human?
Don’t you live in the Republic of Utah, thats [sic] not THE UNITED STATES? You’re a flesh and blood American right?
Weeks: We just change our ip addresses to ones outside the USA.
Such a Libertarian that he wanted to "help" Liberland (and make $140m for himself/BitClub)
October 2017, Weeks emailed several coconspirators regarding his “buddy Vit, The President of Liberland.”
In the email, Weeks pitched an idea by which each of Liberland’s 500,000 “citizens” would pay $5,000 each to become “founding father[]” investors in BitClub Network and all existing BitClub Network members would be granted Liberland citizenship.
Weeks envisioned a $140 million commission for BitClub Network for onboarding Liberland citizens.
He said, “Starting a country is a mission a ton of people are on board with,” and that Liberland, with BitClub Network’s help, “would be the first country that runs on bitcoin mining instead of taxing its citizens.”
But his idealism was also comfortable with being a Super Grass informer for the U.S. Government.
Ironically, that approach led to him being arrested. (It will be interesting if he uses his undoubted knowledge in a Plea Bargain. There's a few people sweating around the world on that one.)
Weeks reached out to law enforcement in 2019 when the Government’s investigation was already underway and still covert.
Weeks claimed that he was well-situated to provide information on international money laundering through his contacts and association with others involved in the flow of large sums of funds through overseas cryptocurrency exchanges.
So the Feds stung him, arranging a meet in Florida
Weeks did not show up to this meeting expecting to be arrested; at no point during the Government’s investigation of Weeks was he ever informed of the instant charges or that the Government was investigating him or the others involved in BitClub Network.
Weeks attempted to convince agents that he might serve— in his words—as a “Jason Bourne” of cryptocurrency.
That's worth a soldering iron in any language.....
*All quotes marked "Pacer" used here come from the DoJ response to a motion filed by Joby Weeks, requesting his pretrial detention order be revoked.
The Pacer quotes, in turn, come from
https://behindmlm.com/companies/bitconnect/bitclub-network-scammers-plead-not-guilty-weeks-want-out/ who have been calling out BitClub as a scam for as long as I have.
PACER = Public Access to Court Electronic Records, a U.S. payg access scheme.
