Michael Volpe Investigates Podcast The Impromptu: Episode 78 an Interview with Marty Gottesfeld
After spending over seven years in a black site prison, Marty Gottesfeld tells all to me.
What do you do after spending seven years in federal prison- including a stint in a black site prison- naturally, you start a Substack.
That’s what Marty Gottesfeld did with Marty G Reports.
While on break from that, Marty stopped by as the latest guest on the podcast.
I was first introduced to Marty’s story in 2019.
The wife of a convicted hacktivist said the Federal Bureau of Prisons is punishing her husband for speaking about poor prison conditions.
Marty Gottesfeld was sentenced in early 2019 to ten years in federal prison for hacking into the website of Boston Children’s Hospital in 2014.
At the time, Boston Children’s Hospital was working with Child Protective Services to hold Justina Pelletier, who had been treated at Tufts for a rare mitochondrial disorder.
Pelletier’s parents took her to Boston Children’s Hospital because their regular doctor was unavailable. The BCS doctors and staff refused to accept her rare diagnosis, arguing that Justina wasn’t sick but rather psychosomatic, with thoughts being placed into her head by her parents. She was held at the hospital against her family’s will for 16 months.
“When Marty started to hear about Justina’s case on social media, he was concerned to learn that the abuse was happening at a world renowned institution in our own backyard of Boston, when Justina was just a guest in the state,” Dana Gottesfeld added.
She said that her husband shut down the main Boston Children’s Hospital website and never put any patients in danger.
Marty did a DDOS attack on Boston Children’s Hospital’s website. In layman’s terms, he diverted a whole bunch of internet traffic and all of it went to the Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH) website.
Marty did it during the week of BCHs biggest fundraiser.
Normally, this stunt would not attract that much attention except BCH is the hospital which trains Harvard Medical School doctors.
It’s politically connected.
He got ten years in federal prison. He served seven.
Why did he orchestrate this attack and how did he wind up in a black site prison?
For that, you need the paid subscription.
Keep reading with a 7-day free trial
Subscribe to Michael Volpe Investigates to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.