bookmark_borderWhoop, There it is!

During the day on July 30, 2015 Joe Howard was e-mailing me trying to persuade me to allow him to enter into plea negotiations with POS Becker. I denied all his requests in writing (via e-mails) ordering him to prepare for trial. As my previous post today explained, his disobeying my order violates many ABA rules. Thus, that’s likely why he won’t produce them.

It’s in that context that you can understand this brief selection of e-mails provided by the NY Public Defender’s office. While reading the second page of the pdf, keep in mind Howard knows he did not have permission to negotiate and obtain the “Petition to Plead Guilty” under discussion. Damning, No?

bookmark_borderI Knew It

I knew it but couldn’t prove it then (2015). See PDF:

Shockingly, William Laubenheimer, died recently (RIP) so I can’t ask him to opine on the recent revelations. This is one instance where I think his demise was simple coincidence, thus the exception to my “rule” of not believing in coincidences. Regardless, with the limited information I had at the time (2015), I made a compelling argument that Ashely’s team was lying. As a consequence of Joe Howard’s refusal to comply with my e-mail demands, we can now conclude he was a part of Becker’s railroading conspiracy…

Let’s break it down. The NY Public defender’s office confirmed that I’m entitled to my case e-mails by complying with my request to turn them over (even though some e-mails appear to be missing, probably deleted on purpose — Whether that purpose was benevolent or nefarious will probably never be known).

Without knowing the exact mechanism of my railroading in 2015, the above pdf shows that I had a specific idea of what actually occurred when I declared that: “All these facts indicate that the visits never happened… or occurred inside a hidden iframe…”

When you google: “What ABA rules are violated when a defense attorney ignores his clients demand to prepare for trial and instead negotiates a conditional plea agreement?” Google will return a lengthly list of potential violations, thus explaining Joe Howard’s refusal to produce the requested e-mails. Especially since the chain of e-mails exchanged on July 30, 2015 prove he violated those ABA rules!

On September 4, 2025 I sent the Nebraska Counsel for Discipline a complaint about Howard’s failure to comply with my request for those incriminating e-mails. I await their reply…

bookmark_borderCode Explanation

I realize that most of my readers may not understand the code shown in the shills 2016 report. Here is a brief breakdown. Figure 3 shows that gallery.php loaded with a query string. As the link explains a query string is a part of a URL that contains data and parameters to be passed to a web server. So as you can see in Figure 3, gallery.php is loaded with a query string setting parameters “b” to “girls” “t” to “1481” and “u” to /girls/res/1481.html” (the percent sign and the number two represent the /).

Now look at Figure 4, you’ll see $request_uri = isset($_GET[‘u’]) that code falsified the request_uri displayed on Figure 12. Now look at columns “request_uri” and “request_headers” (that fills the rest of the figure”). You’ll see the Referers are the same page as the request_uri. That occurs because the request_uri is falsified by the query strings!

In other words they (the FBI) were also falsifying the actual referring page! (The referring page is the page your browser was on before the current page: request_uri). See how that’s a HUGE problem? Your previous page could have been anywhere. For example, say you’re on a legal website using TOR, that sight could send you to TB2 in a hidden iframe without your knowledge. Then the above code would scrub that information from the table and make it look like you reloaded the page from a link on that page, for Figure 3, 1481.html.

Bottom line, this code is proof of fraud and criminal fabrication of evidence. Also note that I’ve been pointing out that Tinyboard doesn’t have a visitors table since June 2015, so all the government’s NIT evidence was inadmissible from the boot. The Shills knew that and helped Becker conceal it. Thus, I WAS RAILROADED!

bookmark_borderAnother Analogy

So, my FOIA request has enabled me to draft another analogy about my prosecution. Here is what appears to have happened (succinctly):

In 2011, the Dutch National Police (DNP) illegally (in our country and theirs) hacked into websites and obtained identifying information about the users of those websites. The DNP and the DOJ didn’t know what to do with this illegally obtained information for a year until the DOJ/FBI devised a diabolical plan to “legally” re-obtain the DNP’s illegally obtained information in 2012. The illegally obtained information included IP Addresses and possible identities linked to those IP Addresses and what illegal information those IP Addresses accessed.

So, for the analogy, let’s substitute IP Addresses for physical street addresses and the names of the people associated with these addresses. And let’s substitute the information as boxes shipped via FEDEX to those physical addresses.

So, for example, let’s say that the DNP illegally determined that someone living at 123 Whatever Way in Wisconsin sent a package containing drugs to 456 Whatever Way in Nebraska in 2011. Let’s also say that the DNP notices that 123 sent a packages to 456 several times, thus establishing an illegal pattern of shipments.

The DOJ/FBI cannot use the DNP’s information to prosecute the actual people at 123 or 456 because none of the evidence will be admissible in Court, so they use “Parallel Construction” to prosecute the people at 123 & 456.

The problem with Parallel Construction is that it encourages government agents to fabricate evidence. For example, say 123 also ships legal products, like Pokemon cards. If the DOJ/FBI isn’t aware of that fact (or intentionally ignores it) many people 123 ships to will get swept up in their Parallel Construction dragnet.

Therefore, I now know that I was illegally swept up in their poorly executed dragnet; because, I have proven that they fabricated and falsified the evidence linking my IP address to TB2’s. So now I know why and how they did it. Now I just need the Eighth Circuit to agree…

bookmark_borderGore Vidal Said

Gore Vidal said: The four most beautiful words in the English language are I told you so; and on December 31, 2024, I TOLD YOU SO!

Therefore, I’m not surprised THAT things are going horribly; however, I am surprised at the speed. SO, Lets recap my new years eve predictions:

  • Trump took office and chaos and ineptitude quickly followed.
  • Pastor Johnson was given the gavel again.
  • Bitcoin crashed on February 28th, but rebounded two days later. It continues to be highly volatile, but; the “greater fool” pool just got bigger, thanks to Trump.
  • Looks like the AI bubble is getting ready to pop this year.

Looks like my pessimism was justified.

bookmark_borderNext Year, Bad for You and Me?

I predict that next year will be bad for you and me, Because:

  • The first Felon President will take office on January 20, 2025 – chaos and ineptitude will quickly follow. Maybe we’ll rethink second class citizenship for (most) felons?
  • January 3 should be interesting in House, I predict Pastor Johnson will be given the gavel again.
  • On a random day in 2025, Bitcoin will crash after finally finding its last “Greater Fool”.
  • Bitcoin’s crash will also cause the AI stocks to crash, as everyone figures out it’s just crowdsourced vaporware.

Needless to say, I’m not optimistic for 2025… Happy New Year!

bookmark_borderOpen Letter to Josh Stroschein Ph.D

Hi Josh:

I’ve been trying to get answers from your team (you, Podhradsky or Miller) for the last three years about why you helped the government railroad me. Podhradsky told me to talk to Miller & Miller told me to “go away”. I’m not going away, nor will I ever “let this go” until I find out what happened.

Last year, while doing research, I came across the paper your team authored regarding the FBI’s NIT for a conference in 2016. Needless to say, it angered me. Sections 2.6 & 2.7 were particularly infuriating. While I am an “expert”, I’m not at your level, but I knew that the FBI was lying about how their NIT worked and that you were actively helping them lie about it. (That’s why I fired Joe Gross Jr. to fire your team in February of 2015.)

The “smoking gun” regarding your team’s participation in this travesty of justice, is this sentence in section 2.6 – where you declare: 

The DNS requests go over UDP and thus they can be spoofed. However, the cornhusker log indicates that DNS request was made via the proxy server and thus that data was not logged in this case. 

As you surely know, that – in regards to the flash player – was impossible.

The proxy server was TOR and the NIT attack relied on the flash player ignoring TOR (thus making direct connections to  cpimagegallery.com. Therefore, flash player’s UDP (DNS) & TCP (Socket) communications must bypass TOR. So the scenario your team omitted from your June 2015 report (where flash used TOR for UDP but didn’t for TCP) was such a HUGE RED FLAG – that FBI shenanigans were afoot – that experts such as yourselves must have withheld it on purpose. If you have a conscious, you should feel very guilty about that. Furthermore, in 2022, I had Nathan Zaugg (of Mindfire Technology) answer 3 questions that your team willfully refused to answer in your June 2015 report. Those 3 questions were:

1) Does Tinyboard have a visitors table?
2) Does Tinyboard issue session ids to clients?
3) Does Tinyboard track user activity in any way?

Nathan’s answer to all 3 questions was NO! That means that your team’s Figure I is perjury and that my conviction was totally fraudulent, without considering the NIT’s additional fraud (discussed above). As I told Miller, the statute of limitations has passed for your team’s perjury, and I cannot sue you for your lies. However, if you come clean about your team’s misdeeds (which my pending FOIA litigation may uncover anyway) I may be able to get exonerated.

So, if you have any decency, I would like you to answer the following 6 questions:

1) When and how did you become involved with NE case no. 8:13CR108?

2) Why did your team examine the wrong server for your first report (January of 2015)?

3) Why did you parrot the government’s lie that the NIT was just a flash application?

4) When and how did Attorney Joseph Howard keep you involved with my case (I desperately tried to fire your team because I knew you were lying)?

5) Why did you lie about Tinyboard Software in your June 2015 Report (Claiming the visitors table was legitimate & Tinyboard issued Session IDs to visitors)?

6) What did you communicate with Keith A. Becker about and when (Please provide dates so I can amend my FOIA litigation for these communications)?

Thank you for your time. I hope you’ll help me uncover your team’s part in railroading me…

– Kirk Cottom

bookmark_borderBell’s palsy update

So about two weeks ago I was diagnosed with Bell’s palsy. According to the literature, I should have been seeing some improvement this week if my situation was caused by inflammation only. Unfortunately, I’ve seen no improvement, thus my paralysis is probably caused by Ramsay Hunt Syndrome.

In sum, it means my recovery will likely be measured in months, not weeks.

April 30 Update: As of today, I’m at 75% recovered. After 3 weeks of no progress, my fourth week has shown daily improvement of about 25% a day, so I may be 100% by Friday.

May 13 Update: As of today, I’m at 90% recovered. I can now raise my left eyebrow and my lip control is almost back. I’m able to drink for a soda can again. Left lips and cheek are at 90%. So I think my recovery time will be about 8 weeks…

June 24 Update: As of today, I’m 95% recovered. My left side is a little weaker than my right side. I’m thinking it may stay that way. But I can eat and talk 100% normal now…

bookmark_borderI Got Bell’s Palsy

So, I was minding my own business this weekend when (on Friday) I developed an odd ear ache. It was a twitching sharp pain that would occur periodically. So, I chalked it up to another ache/pain of being a member of AARP.

But, when I woke up Sunday the left side of my face was basically paralyzed. So, I gave myself the stroke tests in a pamphlet I have because I’m a member of AARP and we need to know these things. I passed all the stroke tests, so I diagnosed myself with what the pamphlet called Bell’s Palsy. On Monday I went to an urgent care that will see you for a flat fee of $125. (Since I’m a struggling sole proprietorship making little (read “no”) money, I do not have any health care coverage, thus my reluctance to go to the emergency room; BUT, I don’t think I’d gone to emergency even if I did… IMO, that is really just a place for gun wounds, car accidents and heart attacks.)

The nurse practitioner chastised me for self diagnosing BUT concurred that I “presented” as text book Bell’s Palsy. He said that it might be have been caused by the virus that causes shingles (chickenpox) and that it attacked my cranial nerve seven. So he put me on an antiviral to combat the possible underlying cause (that cost $80) and a steroid to deal with the inflammation that was continuing to irritate nerve seven (that cost $17).

Now, I just have to wait and hope nerve seven returns to normal giving me the left side of my face back sometime in the next few weeks.

bookmark_borderDenied Again

So the Eighth Circuit denied my petition, again (Case No. 23-3131). This time I’ve complained to their overlord at the SCOTUS, asserting that their latest denial was a violation of Supreme Court precedent (like this case) and my due process rights.

I can’t see how the Court actually looked at my petition before they denied it. The government conceded the evidence used for my conviction was fraudulent per the new 2016 report (discussed here). Their only argument was that the 2016 report wasn’t “new”. The government took over 30 days to file their response to the petition and the Court took a few hours to deny it two days after the government filed it. The denial was so fast, I wasn’t able to file a response to the government’s nonsense about the newness of the 2016 report leading me to believe that my due process rights have been violated.

Like I said before, I was railroaded, all I need now is absolute proof, maybe it will show up in my FOIA request… I also sent a request to Joseph Howard to write a declaration stating that the first that he heard of the 2016 report was when I wrote him about it, this month. We’ll see if he complies… I suspect he won’t because he was/is apart of the conspiracy.