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  • Feel as though few people in comments here are acknowledging OP’s claims, in a fundamental sense (please excuse cross-commenting, I’ve dropped an identical entry at https://lemmy.world/post/36001994).

    TL;DR: My husband, a former Tor operator, refused to help the FBI decrypt Tor traffic. They retaliated by using an old, unrelated CFAA offense to arrest him and then lied about him using a "graphics driver to access the dark web” to keep him in pre-trial detention for 3 years. Now he’s been jailed again in Michigan on fraudulent violations, is being denied care for a head injury, and has no lawyer.

    And from OP’s site

    The Verifiable Lie: The software was, in reality, a pre-approved SPICE graphics driver for his Ph.D. program – not an operating system. It did not, nor could it, disable the monitoring software. Routh used this false claim to baselessly suggest Conrad might be accessing “dark web sites,” an inflammatory accusation she was forced to admit under oath she had no evidence to support.

    This false testimony was fueled by a malicious campaign. We have documented proof that Conrad’s then-wife, Ashley Luster, was actively working to keep him incarcerated for her own financial gain. While he was imprisoned, she illegally made herself the representative payee for his Social Security disability benefits, directing the funds to her own account after divorce proceedings had begun. Financial records further document how she systematically drained his bank accounts, maxed out his credit cards, and spent his monthly pension and disability payments.

    The Smoking Gun Confession: In a letter to her parents, Luster confessed, “I had some tricks up my sleeve to keep him in there”.

    Documented Collusion: Emails reveal Luster colluding with Conrad’s own attorney, Walter Reaves, to secretly prolong his detention.

    Based on this foundation of false testimony and conspiracy, Conrad was held for three years in horrific county jail conditions, where he was regularly beaten by guards and denied his life-sustaining seizure medication. The grueling ordeal ended only when he felt forced to accept a coerced guilty plea.

    So to conclude, there’s a pretty broad spread of bizarre circumstances and claims according to other commenters here and at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45261163, as well as OP’s husband;

    • Mr. Rockenhaus operated a Tor node, but has declined to assist the FBI in an investigation
    • Mr. Rockenhaus’ ex-wife and lawyer were/are colluding to torpedo his case, and ability to remain free on bail pending trial, as well as committing SS fraud and robbing him blind
    • The FBI has seized the property belonging to the (marijuana-based) business of his current wife (OP), and surety as retaliation to a formal complaint filed against his newest probation officer
    • The prosecution team has either willfully misrepresented his use of Linux applications as violations of release conditions, or is incompetent and unable to reconcile the basic functions of Linux programs
    • Mr. Rockenhaus plead to charges in connection to what’s alleged to be his sabotage of his former employer’s business, to the tune of about $500K in damages (see entries related to probation above)
    • One of the prosecution’s exhibits at a previous hearing was a Google search for NAMBLA at 0200 - this one seems like an odd entry, as there doesn’t appear to be any accusation of access to CSAM material in either his former or current charges or legal cases