To Tiffany Routh:
On October 2, 2021, I sent you an email begging for my husband’s life.
I told you he was being poisoned with the wrong medication. I told you he was being held past his legal sentence. I told you that his ex-wife was draining his bank accounts and ruining his credit because he was powerless to stop her from a cell.
I wrote to you with respect. I thought you were just “doing your job.” I thought if you knew the truth, that a disabled veteran was suffering, you would act.
I didn’t know then that you were the reason he was there.
I didn’t have the transcript then. I didn’t know that on February 20, 2020, you stood in a federal courtroom and swore under oath that “SPICE” was a “Linux Operating System” used to hack the Dark Web.
You knew SPICE was a display driver. Or maybe you were just incompetent. But when you lied and told the Judge it was a tool to “knock out monitoring,” you signed his warrant.
Because of that lie:
- You kept him in jail for 3 years pretrial, longer than the sentence for the crime he was accused of.
- You allowed his assets to be stolen. You knew his ex-wife was using his incarceration to rob him, and you did nothing, even though your job was “supervision.”
- You destroyed his health. The medical neglect I warned you about in 2021 has now turned into the death sentence he is facing in FCI Milan in 2026.
I re-read my email today, and I wanted to cry for the woman who wrote it. She thought the system was broken. She didn’t realize the system was rigged by people like you.
I am not begging you anymore. I am not asking for a hearing. I am publishing the record. You destroyed a family to cover up a lie about a computer driver. And now, the whole world knows the difference between an Operating System and Perjury.
– Adrienne Rockenhaus
Here is what the email said:
| Oct 6 Hearing: Rockenhaus, Conrad |
| Adrienne Blair <adrienneblair@gmail.com> | Sat, Oct 2, 2021 at 12:18 PM |
| To: “tiffany_routh@txep.uscourts.gov” <tiffany_routh@txep.uscourts.gov> | |
| Good afternoon, I am a close friend of Conrad Rockenhaus, an inmate at Henderson County Jail in Athens, TX. Mr Rockenhaus is scheduled to have a hearing on a Motion to Reconsider Order of Detention on Oct 6, 2021. The hearing is set for 10:00 AM in Ctrm 108 in Plano, before Magistrate Judge Kimberly C Priest Johnson. I’m writing because I believe Mr. Rockenhaus should be released on October 6 to his mother’s home in Waco for several reasons: First, Mr. Rockenhaus has a strong support system of friends and family who miss him terribly and are anxious for his release. Conrad’s support network, including myself, will ensure he complies with the terms of the release. We will also assist him in getting any help he needs. Second, Mr. Rockenhaus is a disabled veteran who’s conditions have worsened since being incarcerated. The jails are not properly equipped to treat his conditions, and there have been several instances when Mr. Rockenhaus was given incorrect doses of his medication, making him ill. Mr. Rockenhaus has also been made ill from mistakenly being given medication that wasn’t prescribed to him at all. The medications given to Mr. Rockenhaus in jail are not the same medications he was receiving under his regular physician’s care. Mr. Rockenhaus is also not receiving any psychological care in jail, which is essential for his ongoing treatment. Part of Mr. Rockenhaus’s plea agreement states that he must complete a VA treatment program following his release. This treatment program will help him get back on the medications that best help his conditions, as well as provide the proper medical treatment that he’s not receiving in jail. Third, the plea agreement that Mr. Rockenhaus signed states that his sentence would not exceed 18 months. By the time of the hearing on October 6, Mr. Rockenhaus will have been held, without trial, for over 20 months. I believe that per the terms of the plea agreement, Mr. Rockenhaus has served his time and should be released on October 6. Fourth, Mr. Rockenhaus is in the middle of a divorce that requires a lot of his attention. Unfortunately, while in prison, his [ex]-wife, Ashley, used Mr. Rockenhaus’s incarceration as an opportunity to spend his disability checks on herself as well as deplete their checking and savings accounts without his knowledge. Ashley also ran up Mr. Rockenhaus’s credit cards to their limits, without repaying them, and ruined his credit. Additionally, [Ashley] purchased a vehicle in Mr. Rockenhaus’s name and didn’t make payments on it. [Ashley] purchased this vehicle by using a Power of Attorney document that she was not authorized to use. ([Ashley’s] POA over Mr. Rockenhaus had been previously revoked and reassigned to his mother). Until he is released, Mr Rockenhaus is unable to take any action related to the crimes [Ashley] committed against him, such as stealing his disability checks and using an invalid POA document to purchase a car in his name. Mr. Rockenhaus also needs the ability to take steps toward repairing the credit score [Ashley] has ruined. Mr. Rockenhaus’s final divorce hearing is scheduled for November 3, 2021. If Mr. Rockenhaus is released on Oct 6, that would give him the ability to prepare for a fair hearing. Lastly, it has been impossible for Mr. Rockenhaus to arrange his stay at the VA treatment program while still incarcerated. Mr. Rockenhaus was initially scheduled to start the VA treatment program on August 26, 2021, if released. However, the Fannin County Jail refused to transport Mr. Rockenhaus to his court hearing on Aug 26 – the day the motion for release was to be decided upon. The jail cited an unfounded and untested Covid claim as their reason for refusing to transport him. Then, when it came time to reschedule the date to start treatment at the VA, the Fannin County jail abruptly transferred Mr. Rockenhaus to the Henderson County facility on the same day he had a mandatory call scheduled with the VA and his attorney. Additionally, because of the jail transfer, Mr. Rockenhaus is now outside of the district of the VA he was working with. They can no longer assist him, and the process of finding a treatment program in the new district now has to begin again. I believe Mr. Rockenhaus should be released on Oct 6, so that he may coordinate the details of his VA treatment program without interference from the jail system. I fully believe, as someone who is close to Mr. Rockenhaus, that it is critical for him to be released due to the reasons listed. His family and friends will ensure he is receiving the proper medical care he needs, and he will be surrounded by a positive support system who is committed to helping him and keeping him on the right track. Thank you for taking the time to read my letter. Respectfully, Adrienne | |