Feb. 1, 2006: NINETEEN CONSPIRATORS INDICTED by Patrick Fitzgerald

[berni_mccoy]

Did this even bubble up here as news? I think this happened during the Alito hearings...

http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/iln/pr/chicago/2006/pr0201_01.pdf

Nineteen defendants from across the United States and overseas who allegedly
were leaders, members and associates of the underground software piracy group known as
“RISCISO” were indicted on federal charges for pirating more than $6.5 million of copyrighted
computer software, games, and movies through non-public Internet sites. The defendants were
charged in a 15-count indictment that was returned late yesterday by a federal grand jury in Chicago,
where the investigation was conducted, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, United States Attorney for the Northern
District of Illinois, and Robert D. Grant, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago Office of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced today.

With such a huge case, was he even working on the Plame affair in the months before?

[unschooler]

1. A U.S. Atty has a lot of people working under him/her.

Probably lots of cases were going on in the ND Illinois at that time.