The case against Jobadiah Sinclair Weeks, in docket numbers, dates, and filings. And the case for a presidential pardon.
View the full public docket on PacerMonitor · USA v. Goettsche et al., 2:19-cr-877 (D.N.J.) · 500+ filings
Alerted to an open investigation, Joby flies to Washington D.C. on his own accord. He sits with IRS agents for six hours without counsel. He answers every question about BitClub, the mine, the equipment, the cost structure. He is not charged. He is not detained. He flies home.
At his first Date with Destiny seminar in West Palm Beach, celebrating his 10th wedding anniversary with Stephanie beside him, federal agents arrest him. His Cessna sits on the tarmac, loaded with shoes and clothes for hurricane orphans in the Bahamas. He never makes the flight.
72-hour lockdowns. COVID outbreak inside the facility. Hunger strikes. Ten different cellmates. Mail intercepted. Medical care denied. Denied visits from his lawyers and from his two-year-old daughter Liberty, who learns to walk and talk in his absence.
Prosecutors offer: plead to a tax charge he was not indicted for, and they will drop the fraud charge. Joby, having spent $3M on counsel and still with no trial date in sight, enters the plea and is released on a $2M bond. 24/7 home incarceration begins.
The sentencing date is scheduled, moved, rescheduled. Joby remains on GPS monitor with no computer access, no smartphone with internet, restricted to Colorado and New Jersey for legal proceedings only.
Joby parts ways with his attorneys. He reads close to 30,000 pages of law. He files his own motions, challenging the voluntariness of the plea and the years of delay without sentencing.
Six years after his arrest, Joby Weeks has not been sentenced. His daughter Liberty is now old enough to know what is missing.
Joby Weeks does not dispute that he was a promoter of BitClub Network. He does not dispute that he was an advisor. He does not dispute that he was a vendor who sold BitClub approximately seventy-five million dollars of Bitfury mining equipment.
What he disputes, and what the public record supports:
He did not own BitClub. He was not a founder. He did not create it. He did not control its operations. He joined the company sixteen months after it launched.
BitClub mined real Bitcoin. Over 90,000 BTC and 500,000 ETH were produced by machines Joby helped procure. The mining was real. The hashpower was real. The payouts were recorded on the public blockchain.
He cooperated voluntarily. Nineteen months before his arrest, he flew to D.C. at his own expense and spent six hours answering IRS questions without counsel. He went home a free man.
The tax charge he pleaded to was never in his indictment. The prosecution added it late in negotiations, after eleven months of pretrial incarceration, as the price of his release.
After eleven months in pretrial custody and years of post-plea delay, Mr. Weeks has filed a substantial pro se record. His filings challenge the voluntariness of the induced plea, the duration of his confinement without sentencing, and the proportionality of his prosecution relative to his role and his cooperation.
The central ask is narrow: resolution. Either a trial, or relief. Six years of home incarceration is not, in itself, due process.
The complete public docket, with over 500 filings, is published on PacerMonitor: USA v. Goettsche et al., 2:19-cr-877 (D.N.J.). Credentialed journalists and researchers may also contact the press desk for a curated index.
Official federal filings, Third Circuit appeals, and DOJ press releases. For journalists, researchers, and anyone fact-checking the case.
Public Federal Docket · District of New Jersey
• PacerMonitor: USA v. Goettsche et al., 2:19-cr-877 (D.N.J.) · 500+ filings
Federal Appellate Filings · Third Circuit
• Justia: In re Jobadiah Weeks, No. 25-2900 (3rd Cir. 2025)
• Justia: Jobadiah Weeks v., No. 26-1084 (3rd Cir. 2026)
Department of Justice Press Releases
• DOJ: United States v. Matthew Brent Goettsche et al.
• DOJ · U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of New Jersey
• DOJ: Colorado Man Admits Securities and Tax Offenses (2020 plea press release)
These neutral sources are provided so the public and the press can verify the record. They do not endorse any narrative; they are the primary documentation.
Joby’s pro se record, mirrored here for permanent public access. Click any document to download.
Initial Filings & Affidavits · Case # 9:19-mj-8526 & Case # 2:19-cr-877-ccc
• Statement (Dasha Affidavit)
• Affidavit of Violated Constitutional Rights
• Evidence Exhibit 1-A
• Constructive Notice
• Accused Distribution List
Attorney Dismissal
Rescission of Plea
Counter Claims & Supreme Court
• $22.2 Billion Counter Claim
• Supreme Court Filing
• 13th Amendment, State-by-State Ratification Proofs
• Grand Jury Indictment Against the Federal Judiciary
• Temporary Restraining Order / Injunction
Recent Docket Filings (2025)
• Order to Compel
• Ex Parte Motion
• Plea Rescission on the Docket
These filings are mirrored from Joby’s prior site for permanent public access. The complete federal docket of 500+ filings is on PacerMonitor.
The same legal apparatus that prosecuted Joby Weeks is being dismantled. The crypto pioneers are being freed. The prosecutions are being dropped. The laws are being rewritten. His moment is now.
After 11 years of a double life sentence for building a website, Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht walks free on a full presidential pardon.
Executive Order establishes Bitcoin as a United States strategic reserve asset alongside gold.
Enforcement actions against Coinbase, Kraken, Uniswap, Robinhood, and others are formally dismissed.
The National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team is formally dissolved.
First federal statute establishing digital asset regulatory clarity is signed into law.
Six years under home incarceration. Sentencing still pending. No resolution.
The President of the United States has granted pardons to crypto pioneers whose cases were symptomatic of the same regulatory environment that prosecuted Joby Weeks. Ross Ulbricht. Changpeng Zhao. Others.
Mr. Weeks's case is not different in substance. It is different in that he has not yet been pardoned. He has not yet been heard. He has not yet been granted a trial.
The ask is simple: a presidential pardon for Jobadiah Sinclair Weeks, returning to him and his family the life this case has taken.
