by Bonnie | May 5, 2024 |
We have some good news for once from the FBI and the United States Attorney’s Office! After a long legal battle and multiple federal lawsuits, the FBI agreed to return our church property that was illegally seized on March 20, 2016. For those of you not familiar with the backstory, FBI Agents arrived at 73 Leverett Street on that day at 0600 hours and executed search warrant 16-MJ-36-01-06 against the Shire Free Church Monadnock. This raid occurred only two weeks after Minister Mark Edgington on Free Talk Live condemned the FBI for their strategy of running a website that resulted in the distribution of hundreds of thousands of pieces of child pornography to thousands of IP addresses while only making ten arrests. The sealed search warrant was presented in redacted form to the members of the church present for the raid, i.e. Minister Ian Freeman, Parishioner TJ The Spy, and Parishioner James “Robinhood” Cleveland. The warrant alleged that on or about February 20, 2015, someone using the IP address at 73 Leverett Street had accessed the website that was part of the FBI’s vast child pornography distribution network, in violation of 18 USC 2252.
The returned electronic items. Christmas came early!
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by ridley | May 5, 2024 |
https://forum.shiresociety.com/t/free-talk-live-sponsor-roger-ver-arrested-in-spain-on-u-s-tax-evasion-charges/13808
by Bonnie | May 2, 2024 |
***UPDATE – July 2025 – The trial for this case was scheduled for July 14, 2025 and on the day of, the accuser, Francesca Potenza, did not attend. The prosecution had also failed to hand over exculpatory evidence. The defense moved to dismiss with prejudice and the judge granted that motion over the prosecution’s weak objection. “Dismissed with prejudice” means the charges were dropped that day and can never be re-filed. The prosecution knew the charges would be dismissed that day and only requested they be dismissed without prejudice, which was denied. Elliot “Alu” Axelman’s charges were dismissed. A trial did not occur that day as the accuser and a main witness, Lt. Matthew, (who took the original police report and did the investigation,) did not show up for trial.***
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On May 1st, Tony Schinella published an article on Patch.com reporting an accusation made by Francesca Potenza of Rochester against Elliot “Alu” Axelman. Schinella did not attempt to obtain a comment from Axelman or his attorney, which is standard practice in journalism. The article only told one side of the story and suffered from a number of inaccuracies. This will correct the record.
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