One of many largest felony copyright instances in U.S. historical past has a brand new choose and probably a brand new headache for the Justice Division in its decadelong effort to extradite and convict Kim Dotcom, founding father of the file-sharing service Megaupload Ltd.
Choose Liam O’Grady was changed this week by Choose Anthony Trenga, in line with a discover on the docket within the U.S. District Court docket for the Japanese District of Virginia. The federal courtroom gave no rationalization for the reassignment, however Mr. Dotcom offered one on Monday: On Twitter, he wrote that Choose O’Grady was eliminated after Mr. Dotcom and his attorneys found the choose had monetary ties to Walt Disney Co., certainly one of Mr. Dotcom’s alleged victims.