Trump is right. The FBI is chock a bloc with shnooks. So stop clutching your pearls over his appointment of Kash Patel as the agency’s new director. Patel promised as director of the FBI that “he’d shut down the bureau’s…
The following contains the analysis and opinions of the author and no one else. Say what you will about the United States’ 47th President, Donald Trump, but his pardon of Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, aka, the “Dread Pirate Roberts,”…
Prison is a harvest of depression’s bruised fruits. A man does not share his gloom, lest a cellmate will share back. Confined for nearly three months in two different prisons in Arizona and California, I listened to no venting. I…
My cell mate, Oliver Howard, has no visitors and expects to die in prison, not believing he will survive his eight-year plea deal. He is charming . . . though hard of hearing. Guards consider him a good fellow, and…
I went to prison after a 100-count trial alleging that six Village Voice Media defendants facilitated prostitution. I was found guilty of a single count of laundering money; i.e., placing assets in a European bank. The verdict is mysterious. FBI…
It is to be a memorable day. As usual, we are waking at 4 a.m., a foolish and dark time of day. After breakfast, a group adjourns to the basketball court. It is my cellie’s 71st birthday, and he is…
The following contains the analysis and opinions of the author. The author does not speak for the Backpage defendants. On Thursday, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted journalist Michael Lacey’s release from prison pending the outcome of his…
UPDATE 11/21/24, NOON: The Appellate court today issued a ruling denying the motion in regards to Scott Spear and Jed Brunst, but granting it in regards to Lacey and remanding Lacey’s case back to federal Judge Diane Humetewa in Phoenix…
Within the Barred Bunker We watched our friends grow up together And we saw them as they fell Some of them fell into heaven Some of them fell into hell — “A Rainy Night in Soho,” The Pogues I went…
Morgan Loew: Hi everyone. I’m Morgan Lowe standing in for Brianna Whitney on this episode of the True Crime Arizona podcast, Backpage, the tragic story of the founders of the Phoenix New Times. This is the story of the…
