FBI Cooperator
Malden, Massachusetts, USA
Gregg Housh is a well-known personality associated with Anonymous. He has active accounts on most major social media platforms, as well as additional accounts for his businesses, which primarily provide SEO, web-design and Word Press services.
Gregg hosts a podcast called “The Gregg Housh Show” and maintains a wide network of connections in the hacktivist community.
Gregg cooperated with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in a case opened in 2001. His cooperation was praised by the USDOJ in his sentencing documents. His cooperation is stated to have been used as leverage to obtain pleas of guilty from others running warez sites.
- Charges:
- 18 U.S. Code § 371: Conspiracy to commit offense or to defraud United States
- 18 U.S. Code § 2318(b)(1): Trafficking in counterfeit labels, illicit labels, or counterfeit documentation or packaging
- 17 U.S. Code § 506(a)(1): Copyright Infringement
- Summary of FBI cooperation:
- He provided assistance to the FBI “in its ongoing related investigations” and was “debriefed by Agents of the FBI on multiple occasions”
- Entered into a plea agreement with the FBI in June 2005 in exchange for a reduction in his prison sentence
- Gregg’s cooperation was deemed:
- “Significant and useful”
- “On the first day he was approached by the FBI he completely admitted his involvement in the offense.”
- “Mr. Housh provided detailed information concerning his illegal dealings”
- He “was in a position to provide testimony against many targets; namely the owners and operators of warez sites which received software through him, or through the courier programs he wrote and authorized. Consequently, having his cooperation was leverage that was used, among many other factors, in obtaining pleas of guilty by others who owned or operated warez sites.”
- Additional Impacts:
- Disclosed 275 individual user accounts on the site in question, 17 individuals with site operator/manager privileges
- Logs of:
- IP Address that accessed the server
- Date/Time of access
- Upload/download details of all files while logged in
- Result:
- Gregg’s sentence was reduced by two levels for the final adjusted offense level on November 23rd, 2005, based on his cooperation.
- Full court documents (Note: Two documents contained information related to family members not specific to this case. That information has been redacted):
- 117192251 – Waiver of Indictment
- 117192296 – Conditions of Release
- 117192356 – Plea Agreement
- 117199725 – MOTION FOR BOOKER VARIANCE
- 0951887396 – Jurisdiction Transfer
- 1171310101 – Judgement Returned Executed
- 1171319743 – Judgement
- 1171323492 – USSG 5K1.1 MOTION FOR DEPARTURE
- 09512506872 – Violation of Release
- Known social media accounts:
- Twitter
- @gregghoush, ID 537567953
- @gregghoushshow, ID 872896548962750465
- @itinerantgroup, ID 137536567
- @localseocompany, ID 875855136517750784
- @mysticvalleyweb, ID 1031984712414375936
- @rebelnewsco, ID 3056576345
- @wphfsupport, ID 1039167468105859073
- Instagram: gregghoush
- Pinterest: gregghoush
- VK: ID 252389367
- Facebook: atheist
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregghoush
- Github: greggh
- YouTube: thegregghoushshow
- Twitch: gregghoush
- Personal Website: gregghoush.com
- Twitter
- Gregg’s Businesses:
- Mystic Valley Designs (SEO)
- MACGUFFIN VENTURES, INC.
- Previously: “MULTILEVELING, INC”
- Open Corporates-MA
- Open Corporates-DE
- macguffinventures.com/
- Instagram: multileveling
- Website: multileveling.com
- (Closed) Rebel News
1171323492 – USSG 5K1.1 MOTION FOR DEPARTURE – P1 & P2
117192356 – Plea Agreement-P17
117192356 – Plea Agreement-P18
