(Above Photo: U.S. Attorney, Jerome F. Gorgon, Jr. Eastern District of Michigan)
by Adrienne Rockenhaus
TO THE DEPT OF JUSTICE INSPECTOR GENERAL (OIG):
On December 18, 2025, the U.S. Senate confirmed Jerome F. Gorgon, Jr. (Vote #655) as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan.
The Problem: At the exact moment Mr. Gorgon was testifying to his fitness for office, his subordinates were actively suppressing exculpatory evidence in United States v. Rockenhaus. Specifically, his office withheld and ignored:
- Video Evidence of the September 4 Raid: Security footage showing U.S. Marshals brutally beating a surrendered, disabled veteran and threatening to shoot the family dog, contradicting the “resisting” narrative. Mr. Rockenhaus had a grand mal seizure later that day in duty court from the head injury, but he was never treated. Conrad is currently in immense pain and dying in the SHU from the head injury marshals inflicted. This medical torture and neglect is a deliberate, retaliatory measure to silence a whistleblower who reported Neo-Nazi gangs and extortion rings operating among the guards at FCI Milan.
- The Foundation of Fraud (Probation Perjury & Retaliation): Mr. Gorgon’s prosecution relies entirely on arrest warrants secured through perjury by U.S. Probation Officers Jeffry Konal and Stylianos Agapiou. On April 29, 2025, Supervisor Konal swore under oath that my husband was an ‘absconder’ whose ‘whereabouts are unknown,’ despite posessing text messages proving that he knew my husband, Conrad Rockenhaus, was hospitalized for a VA mental health emergency. Yet, Mr. Konal still swore under oath in a warrant application that my husband was an “absconder”.
- Officer Stylianos Agapiou fabricated a violation allegation regarding an ‘OnStar call‘ that never happened to justify the arrest (verified as false by OnStar records). Agapiou, who told my husband ‘You’re that hacker I heard so much about‘, was motivated by the same ‘National Security’ bias that Jerome Gorgon represents. By proceeding with this prosecution despite being served with proof of this perjury, U.S. Attorney Gorgon has knowingly suborned fraud on the court to maintain a political prosecution.
- Ratifying the “Ghost Warrant” Raid (U.S. Marshals Misconduct): U.S. Attorney Jerome Gorgon’s office is prosecuting this case based on the fruits of an illegal raid executed by a rogue unit of the U.S. Marshals Service. Specifically, Deputy U.S. Marshal Brett Fimbinger admitted on camera that he had ‘no hard warrant’ during the violent ‘Tactical Breach’ of my home on September 4, 2025. Instead of obtaining a valid federal warrant, Fimbinger engaged in ‘judge shopping’ to secure a ‘secret’ state warrant from a county judge to bypass federal oversight. This raid was led by ‘John Doe #1′ (a grey-bearded Marshal), the same officer identified in a pending Bivens lawsuit (2:25-cv-12736) for sexually harassing me. By proceeding with this prosecution, Mr. Gorgon has effectively ratified the use of ‘Ghost Warrants’, violence, and sexual intimidation tactics by federal agents against witnesses.
- Deliberate Torture in the SHU: Documented notifications that Mr. Rockenhaus is currently dying in the Special Housing Unit (SHU) at FCI Milan. Despite knowing that the facility cannot treat his traumatic brain injury, Mr. Gorgon’s office has suppressed the reality of this deliberate medical torture, effectively endorsing the slow and painful execution of a disabled veteran in solitary confinement.
By failing to disclose this Brady material and human rights violation to the Senate Judiciary Committee while seeking confirmation, Mr. Gorgon (and SAUSA Lambert) allowed the Senate to vote on a nominee who was actively shielding federal officers from criminal liability.
The Investigation Demand: Did Jerome Gorgon disclose to the Senate Judiciary Committee that his office was prosecuting a brain-injured veteran based on perjury by federal agents? If he did not, he secured his Senate confirmation by fraudulent omission.
The National Security Pretext (Weaponization of Intelligence)
To understand the absurdity of this ‘National Security’ prosecution, one must understand what Conrad Rockenhaus actually did. His 2019 conviction stemmed from a single CFAA violation for ‘intentional damage to a protected computer’.
Essentially, in 2014, Conrad accessed the network of his former employer, Cheap Caribbean (now Apple Leisure Group), after they laid off their DevOps team for cheap labor. While he pled guilty to this unauthorized access, the timeline exposes the government’s true motive. The incident occurred in 2014, yet federal prosecutors waited five years, until 2019, mere months before the statute of limitations expired, to bring charges.
Why resurrect a stale case where the employer reportedly didn’t even want to press charges? Because by 2019, Conrad was operating high-bandwidth Tor exit nodes and had refused FBI demands to help them decrypt traffic. The government weaponized a dusty, five-year-old workplace dispute as a pretext to detain a privacy advocate they couldn’t otherwise touch. Mr. Gorgon is now continuing this legacy of pretextual prosecution, utilizing ‘counter-terror’ tactics like tactical breaches and solitary confinement to punish a man for a crime that was effectively resolved a decade ago.
Podcast with Watchman Privacy
Episode 208 of The Watchman Privacy Podcast Conrad Rockenhaus: Tor Exit Node and Policing Abuse Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Adrienne Rockenhaus about the abuse and arrest of her husband, Conrad Rockenhaus, and the details surrounding this disturbing event of what seems to be clear policing and judicial overreach.
Conrad Rockenhaus was a Digital Freedom and Privacy Hero, Not a Criminal
My husband was a volunteer operator of high-bandwidth Tor exit nodes, a vital service that allows journalists, activists, and dissidents in oppressive regimes to communicate freely by routing encrypted traffic anonymously. Tor is not a crime; it was developed with U.S. Navy funding to protect privacy, and running an exit node is a public service for free speech, not hacking.
Yet, because he refused to help federal agents break encryption protocols to spy on this traffic, he was targeted as a threat.
The government’s tech illiteracy is so profound that in 2020, a Texas pre-trial officer (Tiffany Routh) testified under oath that a standard Linux graphics driver (SPICE) was a ‘Dark Web’ operating system to justify detaining him for three years pre-trial.
Eastern District of Michigan’s U.S. Attorney, Jerome Gorgon, is now using this same ‘National Security’ pretext to deploy counter-terrorism tactics, including a military-style ‘tactical breach’ raid, ‘secret’ state warrants, and solitary confinement. This is against a disabled veteran for technical probation violations that are provably fabricated.
This vendetta against my husband is also a gross waste of federal resources. The Department of Justice has expended vast taxpayer funds, including three years of pre-trial detention. The deployment of U.S. Marshal tactical teams, to prosecute a ‘crime’ that boils down to a Probation Officer confusing a standard Linux graphics driver (SPICE) for a ‘Dark Web Operating System’ was also very costly.
Mr. Gorgon is not protecting national security; he is burning public money to cover up the embarrassment of his agency’s technical incompetence.
This is not law enforcement. It is the weaponization of the national security apparatus to punish a privacy advocate who refused to become an asset for the surveillance state, a political motive Jerome F. Gorgon Jr. concealed from the Senate to secure his confirmation.
Jerome Gorgon’s background as a ‘National Security’ prosecutor reveals the true motive behind this disproportionate prosecution. My husband, Conrad Rockenhaus, is a former operator of high-bandwidth Tor exit nodes who refused to assist federal agencies in breaking encryption protocols. Mr. Gorgon has deployed counter-terrorism tactics, including a military-style ‘tactical breach’ raid, ‘secret’ state warrants, and solitary confinement, against a disabled veteran for a (fraudulent) technical probation violation. This is not law enforcement. It is the weaponization of the national security apparatus to punish a privacy advocate who refused to become an asset for the surveillance state.
Mr. Gorgon concealed this political motive and the associated use of excessive force from the Senate to secure his confirmation.
SAUSA Corinne Lambert Lied to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals
While Mr. Gorgon was testifying to the Senate, his subordinate, Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Corinne Lambert, was actively committing fraud on the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals on case #25-1974, to sustain this illegal prosecution. On December 22, 2025, Lambert filed a brief falsely claiming that Conrad Rockenhaus’s medical crisis and retaliation claims were ‘never raised’ in the lower court. This was a lie; official transcripts prove Lambert was physically present on October 17 when defense counsel explicitly detailed the ‘terror’ at FCI Milan and Conrad’s seizures to the judge. By permitting his prosecutor to lie to an appellate court to cover up police brutality, U.S. Attorney Gorgon has ratified a strategy of perjury over justice.
The Judicial Enabler (Judge Stephen J. Murphy III)
Furthermore, U.S. Attorney Gorgon’s office has knowingly weaponized the bias of District Judge Stephen J. Murphy III to secure this conviction. On October 14, 2025, Judge Murphy explicitly stated on the record that he was weighing the defendant’s sentence against his wife’s protected First Amendment activity, declaring: ‘If I give him jail time, that looks like I’m penalizing him for his wife’s behavior.’ Despite witnessing this clear judicial retaliation, which mirrors the bias that got Judge Murphy removed from United States v. Liggins, Gorgon’s prosecutors (Lambert and Neal) remained silent, effectively endorsing a sentence that punished a disabled veteran for his family’s civil rights filings.
Please look at the other cases that harmed us, because of Gorgon’s confirmation:
Rockenhaus v. Pringle (2:25-cv-12913) – Writ of Habeas Corpus – On December 18, 2025, Jonathan J.C. Grey Dismissed it, for medical reasons he was NOT qualified to grant. Judge Grey let the Writ of Habeas Corpus go unanswered for months, and then suddenly dismisses it outright the exact day of Gorgon’s confirmation.
This is not a coincidence. This was to ensure U.S. Attorney Jerome Gorgon had a scandal-free docket for his confirmation.
Rockenhaus v. Agapiou (2:25-cv-12716) – Judge Sally Berens (W.D. Michigan) – On December 16, 2025, attempted to dismiss Conrad Rockenhaus’s Bivens complaint, using his TBI and other dire circumstances beyond his control, against him.
We are formally requesting that the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) open a file on U.S. Attorney Jerome F. Gorgon, Jr. immediately.
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Video of violent, illegal raid, that caused my husband’s new head injury. Warden Eric Rardin, at FCI Milan will not treat it, and is letting him seize painfully to death, because to treat him, would be to admit what the U.S. Marshals did