Over 1,000 Sealed Government Indictments In 36 Districts - What Does It Mean?

A total of 1183 sealed government indictments as of Wednesday morning?

A list of a total of 1183 sealed indictments and their jurisdictions was posted to the Innerweb over the past few days and the number keeps growing.

The “.xlsx” file posted to Google Drive reveals as of Wednesday 172 of the sealed indictments are to be issued in the Central District of California, 108 are to be issued in the District of Colorado, 99 in the Northern District of California, 35 in the District of Columbia, and the list goes on.

Although the districts in which the indictments will be issued and the number of indictments in each district are listed in the file, the indictments remain sealed at this time so there is no way of telling who or what entity is being indicted and what the person or entity is being indicted for.

You can view the listings for all 1183 of the sealed indictments which were released in the following tweet:

There are a total of 1183 #SealedIndictments as of the time this tweet was posted. #UraniumOneScandal #Pizzagate https://t.co/CRCYwWDsJ4 … … H/T: @Tabertronic@ShepardAmbellas #TheirTimeHasCome

— Intellihub (@intellihubnews) November 15, 2017

Rumor: Over a Thousand Sealed Indictments Suggest Mass Arrests May Occur

Update – Now Up To 1,183 Sealed Indicments in 36 Districts

Over 1,100 sealed indictments!@buildthewall_20 found 108 in Colorado.
We’re up to 1,183 in 36 districts. https://t.co/3qBvmpVLE1We will keep updating this spreadsheet.

— StormWatcher     (@damartin32) November 15, 2017

SEALED INDICTMENTS CONTEXT

Source: Voat.co | by lawyer4justice

PG RELATED BECAUSE THE MORE SEALED INDICTMENTS THERE ARE, THE MORE LIKELY THEY ARE BRINGING DOWN A LARGE SCALE ORGANIZED CRIME UNIT. THE LARGER THE ORGANIZED CRIME UNIT, THE MORE LIKELY IT IS RELATED TO HUMAN TRAFFICKING.

I know people have been saying “WHOA, bro, this is a ton of indictments.” But a “ton” to one is not a “ton” to another. So, here is my attempt to give you context to the sealed indictments…

What is a sealed indictment? Criminal charges that are brought by the grand jury where the charges and Defendant are kept secret.

Why do they seal indictments? Usually in large, organized crime cases, the prosecutors want to keep the defendants secret, so as not to tip them off that they are still collecting more evidence, or that maybe a co-defendant is cooperating.

What is the normal frequency of sealed indictments? The only official numbers I could find are from 2006, completed by the Federal Courts. In 2006, there were 284 sealed indictments across the entire year, for ALL districts, combined. https://www.fjc.gov/sites/default/files/2012/SealCaFC.pdf

How do I (a normal citizen, not employed by the Federal Courts) find out how many sealed indictments there are? Dockets (a court’s calendar) are public information. So, the sealed cases appear on the dockets, but as “Sealed v. Sealed,” or “Defendant: Sealed.” Any person can go on a federal court’s website and count the sealed cases. OR, you can order a PACER Report. PACER will do all the work for you for a price. They aggregate all of the public information into one document.

What is the frequency this year? According to a PACER REPORT ordered by @damartin32on Twitter, 832 sealed indcitments were filed across the country between 10/30 and 11/14 of this year. So, in just two weeks we have over 800 sealed indictments filed across the US. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ybqDYsLxNnkKNEypjHfuzZuXEo1WbIKd/view

800+ in two weeks vs 200+ all year Assuming that the 832 number is correct and assuming that the number of sealed indictments has not DRASTICALLY changed in the last decade, then Yes, this is abnormal. Of course it is POSSIBLE that none of these are related. But it is not likely. There becomes a point where there are so many coicidences that it stops being coincidental. I hope this post gives you context.

FINAL QUESTIONS: Is this related to Trump/Russia collusion? Well if this were related to Trump/Russia collusion, would it be THIS extensive? If it were related to Trump/Russia collusion, why are so many of the indictments (by far) out of California Central District (which just happens to contain Hollywood)?

EDIT1: Even though the indictment numbers are abnormal to me, they sounded TOO abnormal, so I did my own sampling using the SAME database and SAME terms, just different dates… I did filing periods of 10/30 – 11/15 over 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017. Not enough time/energy to do ALL districts, but here is Arkansas: 2013: 3 cases filed, 1 sealed 2014: 4 cases filed, 1 sealed 2015: 6 cases filed, 1 sealed 2016: 11 cases filed, 6 sealed 2017: 21 cases filed, 6 sealed That sounds more reasonable… AND it makes sense that increased SEALINGS extend back at least a year because organized crime is very complex litigation. They often spin those defendants and turn them on the bigger fish.