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I am taking down the corrupt top judge of a leading Western nation, for fun. A first instance judge had committed a serious criminal offense. Her husband, a we
by byecancer21 5y ago
I am taking down the corrupt top judge of a leading Western nation, for fun.
A first instance judge had committed a serious criminal offense. Her husband, a wealthy and influential lawyer then bribed the presiding appeals court judge. So I made the assumption he would also influence the ensuing constitutional court case.
The case had been accepted by the court and assigned a case number. I waited for a month then caused the husband to panic with a morning fax sent to his law firm making fun of his felonious wife and mentioning the case. Without thinking, he used his close connections to the court, trying to save his wife I suppose. Apparently unaware I had caused this in a provable way, the top court decided the very same day to not take the case and gave no reason whatsoever. Such decisions are supposed to be scheduled ten days ahead by law, which did not occur here. The case was also objectively valid since one of the appeals court judges had refused to be on the panel, so the assignments were wrong, a severe procedural error. The judge assigned to fact-finding in the case was the President of this court, the number five in the diplomatic ranking of this nation.
My intent is to end his judicial career and thus alter the course of his nation a little bit.
I am only doing this for fun and don't care if this succeeds.
E-Mail in profile if you are a lawyer or journalist and want to see something interesting happen. There is already a public website with all case materials that caused further drama within the judiciary.
A tech connection: a false claim of immediate threat to the life of the felonious judge had been made to obtain an IP address from Cloudflare, bypassing due process.
Another tech connection: The legal entity operating the website is a DAO on Ethereum, the (minimal) costs are paid with funds originated from a tech billionaire...
- bitexploder 5y agoThat is some count of Monte Cristo level shenanigans.
- byecancer21 5y agoThere are many more fun details to the whole story. For example the judge had taken the case files to her house to keep them hidden there, in one panel decision a singular judge voted twice because he could only find one other judge willing to go along, the way I obtained certain info from court staffers was by showing up in person walking in crutches which I actually didn't need, some legal filings had appropriate chess endgame problems for a cover page, and so on. Nobody expects you to handle your cases like a tech venture, where we only really care for high-variance outcomes and not the simple wins...
- thom 5y agoChess endgames?!
- byecancer21 5y agohttps://de.wickepedia.org/File:20210328-rittweger.cover.redacted.pdf https://de.wickepedia.org/File:20210328-rittweger.cover.reda... The resolution some months later: https://de.wickepedia.org/File:20211014-lsg-wicke-cover.pdf https://de.wickepedia.org/File:20211014-lsg-wicke-cover.pdf The court was unable to print pages due to a css media selector preventing this, so the - presumably bribed - judge had them printed at the nearby law offices of the influential husband. This showed up in log files with his IP address, and can likely be proven as the color printouts of screenshots have forensic features connecting them with his printer. Since this leaves little doubt about an inappropriate connection to the case and possible bribery, which the prosecutor's office has a legal duty to investigate, this was considered the game over moment. Somewhat bizarrely, the judge then claimed she felt threatened by this chess game. However, the queen actually remains standing at the end of the game.
- roblabla 5y agoThe wiki appears to be down. Cloudflare returns an Error 521: Web server is down.
- byecancer21 5y agoSorry, this is unexpectedly blowing up. Had wrongly assumed few people would care about the matter. Should be back up soon with Cloudflare caching.
- Forge36 5y agoThere's already a website and you tease with this? Why keep the website private?
- byecancer21 5y agoIt's in German language and legal stuff, although one may enjoy the renderings of numerous corruption-involved public officials. These were made using AnimeGANv2. https://de.wickepedia.org/Wickepedia:About https://de.wickepedia.org/Wickepedia:About The felonious judge is named Wicke so this was thought to be the most hilarious domain name. It has been kept low-profile on purpose because analytics enabled amazing observability about who talks to whom, and who is particularly nervous about the matter. The caching gets bypassed currently due to tracking cookies, which may explain slowness. Also should point out the (excellent) criminal evidence has thus far not been made public. The state attorney has zero interest in touching a politically highly sensitive matter obviously, so his hand needs to be forced by means other than simply handing over the evidence....
- nairboon 5y agoDas liest sich wie ein Krimi! So do you want this to go public yet, or are waiting for further actions by some of the involved courts?
- byecancer21 5y agoI expect all cases are going to be retried. As a criminal defense strategy the judge made a claim she "felt threatened" for an extremely long duration including all of her decisions. I have thus filed for nullification, since her claim implies judicial bias. This matter is currently pending. I wanted to complete legal proceedings first. A late-night post in a half-day old thread on HN is getting orders of magnitudes more visits than I had thought.
- orbifold 5y agoWell this involves the German Supreme Court, any kind of corruption there would be Europe wide, if not World news.
- na85 5y agoYour wiki's JavaScript hijacks the navigation controls on Firefox for Android. No way to escape the page except closing the browser
- byecancer21 5y agoThank you for letting me know, this will be fixed soon. I should point out this is, for legal reasons, not "my" wiki.
- jacobriis 5y agoIf your strategy makes as much sense as your writing, you're definitely going to prison.
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- byecancer21 5y agoHad ended up in hospital with a potentially lethal complication in connection. It won't be me going to prison. None of the stuff published so far is writing targeted at the general public, it is directed at people involved who are aware of the details.
- rolandog 5y agoWhat is the illegal part?
- c0balt 5y agoWill be created^Wfound later on /s
- rolandog 5y agoAhh, sorry. Hadn't had enough coffee to spot the sarcasm. Indeed, dangerous games to play against people without scruples. I, too, have wanted to undertake projects that would fight against corruption, but I guess I shouldn't have any attachment to my family or friends if I were to go ahead.
- mellavora 5y agowhat does "illegal" have to do with "going to prison" when fighting top players in a known corrupt system? prison might be the nice outcome. Note I'm making a lot of assumptions here on the validity/veracity of the story.
- byecancer21 5y ago
- rafale 5y agoYou have a serious case of delusions of grandeur. Get some help.
- EdwardDiego 5y agoIf you read the website, it's apparently because an off-label medicine wasn't approved. But it looks like Patient F has survived though, which is good.
- byecancer21 5y agoThe medical reviewer, a public employee, had ruled on a matter she was not professionally qualified for. The court asked the patient's doctor for facts as they routinely do, which left no room for denial. The judge dropped this document from one file, then in another file claimed the same matter had already been decided and passed over all evidence while at the same time knowingly making a false assertion of facts. Access to these files was denied for months, beyond the constitutional court case even. Without the ability review the files, had to guess what she had done and this did turn out to be factual later. From judicial instructions found on the back side of a page at the appeals level it is clear these judges had been aware. The judge assigned to fact-finding had refused to handle the matter, a procedural violation. Had asked the medical board for proof as one way to have these decisions nullified. No response for months. In a hearing that was recorded I mentioned the medical board and, carelessly, two days later they sent a letter refusing me the information. It is clear a judge is behind this. This matter is now pending in administrative court.
- light_cone 5y agoIt is sad that you would rather believe the parent has mental health issues, rather than entertain the possibility that yes, someone is actually doing something effective against powerful corrupt people, and that requires creative thinking. To me, it echoes "Discourse on Voluntary Servitude" by La Boétie. Powerful people are just people. They are powerful because we are collectively granting them that power. This is not a case of delusion of grandeur, but a case of saying no to learned helplessness. So thank you byecancer21 for what you're doing against corruption, from a stranger on the internet.
- sizzle 5y agoHave you checked the carbon monoxide levels in your home lately for a leak? Genuinely concerned…
- NicoJuicy 5y agoA lot of judges are somewhat corrupt, the difference is how much. But make no mistake, the power/influence they yield is enormous and i would certainly restrain myself for ever doing this. A judge ( in Belgium) stopped a documentary about his criminal doings, pledged psychological issues ( and his brother is a shrink) and is now happily drinking beers and enjoying ( forced) early retirement. He accepted briberies from anyone to influence cases fyi. Some cases are pretty nuts too. Oh yeah, "there was no proof of any briberies" was the result of many cases. But people who live nearby know a thing or two and there is exactly 0,0% chance that he was "clean".
- byecancer21 5y agoWell aware of the politics. The play here was to predict the ways corruption works and use their own moves against the other side. Obstruction of justice can already be shown to have occurred within the prosecutor's office, in a case against the judge related to her faking of a crime. Police had concluded there was no threat. That page went missing from her file but I have it from another source. A number of my friends and acquaintances are, in fact, high-level judges. This court had no way of knowing this.
- can16358p 5y agoWhat did I just read?
- Yanu-3452 5y agoI'm not qualified to say this, so this isn't a diagnosis, but the post strikes me as similar in tone to the postings of a paranoid schizophrenic who regularly used to post on a forum I visited. Completely convinced they're on the verge of uncovering something that will "change history" yet very difficult to follow the detail of what they're saying.
- byecancer21 5y agoI don't believe or have claimed this will "change history". Had in fact offered to let the whole matter slide if and only if two judges ruling on health insurance matters hand in their resignations, as I consider them a danger to the general public.
- bladegash 5y agoIs that really a decision for you to single handedly make? People make mistakes, but it doesn’t mean they are evil. Pushing them to admit their wrong doing, give up their livelihood/careers, etc. is just stupid. Especially if “doing it for fun”. That’s not admirable, it’s disturbing.
- danuker 5y ago> Especially if “doing it for fun”. That’s not admirable, it’s disturbing. I see you are attempting to take away the "hacker" in "hacker news". I see this as social engineering, for a good cause.
- bladegash 5y agoGood cause according to who? The OP? You? How about the other people that have received and live with judgements from this official? And sorry, but social engineering is pretty unethical if you ask me, and has nothing to do with the name of the site.
- eyelidlessness 5y agoThis really sounds like one of them projects you should care if it succeeds if you’re doing it.
- byecancer21 5y agoThis has realistically no more than a 10-15% chance of succeeding, not dissimilar to a startup. For either, it is perhaps better to not get attached too much to a specific outcome.
- eyelidlessness 5y agoTo quote one of the most formative phrases for me politically (and, come to think of it, in tech and in a bunch of other endeavors): “be realistic, demand the impossible”. Caring about the outcome isn’t the same as being attached to it.
- byecancer21 5y agoI have nothing personally against the guy, responding to personal asks for a favor is inappropriate but simply how such things work. This is simply a means to achieve the strictly necessary: to have two criminal offenders amongst judges removed from their appointments. Realistically this only happens if the prosecutors, which are directed by state politicians and are not independent, look bad to the public unless they handle the matter properly. And that I do care very much about.
- byecancer21 5y agoFor clarification, evidence for the bribery claim is only circumstantial at this point, which is also made clear in the record. The other claims however are substantiated with strong evidence encompassing intent.
- throwawayHN378 5y agoYou sound insane. Generally concerned for your mental health
- byecancer21 5y agoI appreciate your concern. Her own staffer did ask me some time ago, unprompted, if she too must fear criminal charges. There exists proof of this. I do feel bad for her and even the judge's superior, the court president, who I believe failed to take action not because she couldn't recognize the problem but because this judge wields more power than her boss. Finally, some documents have been designated a state secret because public knowledge would be disadvantageous to the state, something I can agree with. These were circulated before I could interpret the acronyms thus outside my control now.