Jobadiah “Joby” Weeks pled guilty to BitClub Network criminal charges in November 2020.

Five years later, in a situation one assumes nobody is happy with, Weeks has yet to be sentenced.

Back in May Weeks, who is currently on bail pending sentencing, received permission to relocate from Colorado to Florida. While in Florida, Weeks was additionally granted permission to accompany his new wife to hospital for the birth of their child.

A few hours after Weeks’ child was born and while still at the hospital, Weeks left his wife to host a fifty-three minute long self-marketing interview.

The interview was posted as a YouTube video, “6 Years in Captivity with No Trial. The Targeting of Crypto Legend Joby Weeks: US Lawfare In Action“, on the Broken Truth channel on July 23rd.

At time of publication the video has twenty-two views. I’m one of those views but I haven’t sat through the whole interview.

In the first minute and a half the claim was made that the BitClub Network Ponzi scheme “was closed off to US investors”. This I know to be false, so presumably the interview is light on fact checking.

Another view (or more) can likely be attributed to the DOJ, who cited Week’s self-promotion in a response filing seeking Weeks’ bail revocation.

As per the DOJ’s August 25th filing;

During the beginning of the interview, which ran for 53 minutes and 44 seconds, Weeks told the interviewer that they were at the hospital where his child was born, and the interviewer confirmed their location at the hospital.

The Government brings this behavior to the attention of the Court because it demonstrates Weeks’ continued disregard for court-ordered restrictions.

To start, Your Honor approved a modification to allow for Weeks to be present at the hospital for the birth of his child, and Weeks capitalized on this modification to sit for an hourlong interview about this case.

This violates, at a bare minimum, the spirit with which the modification was granted.

Second, it seems unlikely that Weeks was being supervised by his third-party custodian during the interview since the footage appears to be in a common area of the hospital, and the third-party custodian had given birth just hours before.

What else Weeks might have gotten up to while his wife, who as per Weeks’ release conditions was supposed to be supervising him, lay in a hospital bed, is unclear.

Finally, meeting with an individual to conduct an interview with an online platform to be published on the internet (YouTube) is meant to circumvent the pretrial condition preventing Weeks from accessing the internet.

The DOJ concludes;

Based on the numerous violations outlined in the Government’s previous briefing, and the additional behavior detailed above, it is clear that Weeks does not take his conditions seriously and cannot reliably be counted on to comply with them.

Other examples of Weeks’ violating his release conditions include testing positive for cocaine and ignoring a home incarceration order.

The Government respectfully requests that the Court revoke Weeks’ bail and order him detained pending sentencing in this matter.

In a response to the DOJ’s filing on August 29th, Weeks claimed the DOJ had “mistate[d] the facts”.

My son was born on June 29, and I briefly spoke with a visitor the following day at the hospital.

There is nothing in my release conditions prohibiting me from meeting with or speaking to individuals in person, nor was the Court’s modification limited to silent presence at the hospital.

Accordingly, this allegation is both factually inaccurate and legally without consequence.

If I may quote interviewer John Davidson, from the previously cited Broken Truth YouTube video;

[5:15] I recently met with Joby Weeks in an interview on a very important day in his life, the day his son was born.

And also Joby Weeks himself, from the same interview;

[6:01] Today was a great day, my son was just born … he was born at 2:22pm.

In addressing his release condition requirement that his wife is to supervise him, Weeks states;

The Government overlooks that my custodian’s focus was understandably on giving birth, not on monitoring my every moment in the hospital.

Expecting unbroken supervision during childbirth is an impossible standard.

And on hosting an interview that would be published on the internet to circumvent his own barred use of the internet, Weeks argued;

There was no circumvention. I did not access the internet.

I spoke in person to someone physically present, which is not prohibited. If a third party later chose to upload that recording to YouTube, that is their independent action, not me “using the internet.”

It’s unclear how many Broken Truth interviews John Davidson doesn’t post to the internet after filming them.

What I’m getting at is I think one can reasonably assert Weeks filmed the Broken Truth interview because it would later be posted on the internet – something he himself is barred from doing personally.

I guess it’s up to the court to clarify whether barring Weeks from internet usage was intended to just stop him using the internet, or having a presence on the internet altogether.

As at time of publication, the court has yet to issue a ruling on the DOJ’s motion seeking to revoke Weeks’ bail. Stay tuned.