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Bureau of Prisons Tries to Silence Whistleblower Marty Gottesfeld

Bureau of Prisons Tries to Silence Whistleblower Marty Gottesfeld

Have they learned nothing from their past failures?

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Jan 29, 2023
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Many of you know that I’ve written extensively about whistleblower and “hacktivist” Marty Gottesfeld.  Marty was sentenced to a draconian 10-year sentence for initiating a directed denial of service attack on Boston Children’s Hospital’s fundraising website to protest their treatment of a young girl who had been forcibly taken from her parents at the insistence of doctors at Children’s.  The doctors maintained that the girl, Justina Pelletier, was a victim of parental abuse.  It turned out that she wasn’t.  She suffered from a rare genetic disorder, which Children’s misdiagnosed.  But it was Marty who became the bad guy, the government’s target.  The doctors who snatched a little girl from her parents and then accused the parents of unspeakable crimes against their own child, remain free and working at Children’s Hospital.

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