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1. ERIKA SHIELDS THE SEXUAL PREDATOR : IT'S SHAKEDOWN TIME —PART I
According to Maxx Wolf, what began as a destructive prison shakedown escalated into alleged sexual misconduct witnessed by two inmates, documented in sworn affidavits, and reported through a PREA complaint.
OPEN STORY—ERIKA SHIELDS
2. ERIKA SHIELDS: THE PREA COMPLAINT—PART II
According to Maxx Wolf, two inmates witnessed the Erika Shields incident, signed affidavits describing what they saw, and remained unnamed while still under government control. Wolf says he preserved the statements, launched a private investigation, filed a PREA complaint, and pushed the matter through administrative and outside oversight channels—while the Bureau of Prisons quietly moved Shields instead of confronting the allegations head-on.
OPEN STORY — ERIKA SHIELDS
3. THE SHIT BUCKET AND THE PISS FUNNEL — PART I
According to Maxx Wolf, 108 days in Florence’s Special Housing Unit became the price of publishing AND NO JUSTICE FOR ALL. He describes freezing cells, black mold, fluorescent lights, retaliation, and a deeper isolation unit he called the “SHU SHU”—where punishment escalated to a cell with no toilet, no running water, a shit bucket, and a piss funnel for 13 days.
OPEN STORY — THE SHIT BUCKET AND THE PISS FUNNEL
4. THE SHIT BUCKET AND THE PISS FUNNEL — PART II
The “SHU SHU.” Maxx Wolf describes thirteen days in a seven-by-five-foot isolation cell with constant light, freezing air, no running water, a shit bucket, a piss funnel, and what he says was deliberate psychological pressure. The story examines his allegations against Florence officials, the regulations he says were violated, witness affidavits, and the question that remains: where is the paperwork authorizing what happened?
OPEN STORY — THE SHIT BUCKET AND THE PISS FUNNEL
5. MAXX WOLF RISING: JAILHOUSE ROCK — PART I
According to Maxx Wolf, AND NO JUSTICE FOR ALL was born inside the Florence federal prison camp, where an inmate number turned into a publishing identity. Wolf says he began documenting the judges, prosecutors, FBI agents, wardens, officers, retaliation, and institutional conduct he witnessed from behind the fence—launching a public record while the same institution still controlled nearly every part of his daily life.
OPEN STORY — MAXX WOLF RISING: JAILHOUSE ROCK
6. MAXX WOLF: THE $40 CELL PHONE THEY NEVER FOUND — PART II
According to Maxx Wolf, a forty-dollar contraband cell phone became his newsroom, printing press, and direct line through the walls of Florence. He describes publishing AND NO JUSTICE FOR ALL from inside prison, using a private investigator to build documentary files, writing through the night, watching the stories surface on Google, and surviving repeated searches by officials determined to find the phone that had already allowed the record to escape.
OPEN STORY — MAXX WOLF: THE $40 CELL PHONE THEY NEVER FOUND
7. MOHIT GOURISARIA: THE CORRUPT AUSA OF SAN FRANCISCO
Maxx Wolf’s central file on former Assistant U.S. Attorney Mohit Gourisaria. Wolf said Gourisaria pursued conviction over truth, relied on questionable FBI identification and Brian Cooper Dill’s disputed statements, repeatedly pushed plea agreements, and ultimately used pressure against Wolf’s wife and family when Wolf continued demanding a trial.
OPEN STORY — MOHIT GOURISARIA: THE CORRUPT AUSA OF SAN FRANCISCO
8. MOHIT GOURISARIA AUSA: THE FEDERAL EXTORTIONIST
According to Maxx Wolf, the case changed after his defense investigation began uncovering records that contradicted government witness Brian Cooper Dill. Gourisaria then personally went to Los Angeles, confronted the government’s cooperating witness, obtained a dramatically expanded version of the story, and returned with allegations involving Wolf’s wife that became the government’s most powerful plea leverage.
OPEN STORY — MOHIT GOURISARIA AUSA: THE FEDERAL EXTORTIONIST
9. JOEL SEATON FEDERAL BUREAU OF IDIOTS: WE'RE THE FUCKING FBI
According to Maxx Wolf, FBI Special Agent Joel Seaton helped turn blurry security footage, a questionable fake ID, and assumption into a “positive identification” that contributed to Wolf’s bail being revoked. Wolf says private investigator Katherine Kinsey later did the basic investigative work the FBI failed to do—comparing photographs, interviewing people at the office, and developing evidence identifying Brian Cooper Dill rather than Maxx Wolf as the man in the footage.
OPEN STORY — JOEL SEATON FEDERAL BUREAU OF IDIOTS: WE'RE THE FUCKING FBI
10. BRIAN COOPER DILL AND KYLE MORGAN DILL: PPP FRAUD
According to Maxx Wolf’s records, two PPP loans totaling approximately $1.93 million flowed through Dessler Media during the pandemic while Brian Cooper Dill was already cooperating with federal authorities. Wolf’s file follows the money through Dessler Media, K5IVE, movie productions, a luxury Mexico rental, and the entertainment pipeline—and contrasts that treatment with Michael Douris, a 75-year-old wheelchair-bound federal prisoner who received 30 months over a far smaller PPP case.
OPEN STORY — BRIAN COOPER DILL AND KYLE MORGAN DILL: PPP FRAUD
11. BRIAN COOPER DILL FBI RAT: MICHAEL MADSEN IN KILLER ESCORT & THE FRAUDULENT HOLLYWOOD MONEY TRAIL
According to Maxx Wolf, what began as a $250,000 independent movie featuring Michael Madsen became something much larger. Wolf says Brian Cooper Dill continued raising investor money while Killer Escort remained unfinished, with Lance H. Robbins, Lifetime/Disney-Hearst connections, additional movie productions, Mexico, investor funds, and the later PPP-money pipeline becoming part of the documentary trail Wolf’s investigator began reconstructing.
RELATED STORIES: THE NOT EVEN MICKEY SERIES
The Not Even Mickey series tells Maxx Wolf’s complete account of how a proposed Hollywood exit became an unfinished movie, a disputed money trail, a border crossing, and what Wolf describes as a federal setup.
12. 1,000 + BLACK LIVES DIDN’T MATTER IN JUDGE EDWARD MILTON CHEN’S SAN FRANCISCO COURTROOM—PART I
Maxx Wolf says his sentencing file contained extensive mitigation evidence documenting decades of charitable work—from housing and supporting Beverly Hills poet Isaac Young to funding medical transport vans and a clinic in Uganda. Dr. Hope traveled to San Francisco to testify about the lives Wolf’s assistance had helped save. Wolf’s central question is simple: if a federal court is supposed to consider the whole person at sentencing, why did that documented history appear to count for so little?
OPEN STORY — 1,000 + BLACK LIVES DIDN’T MATTER IN JUDGE EDWARD MILTON CHEN’S SAN FRANCISCO COURTROOM
13. JUDGE EDWARD MILTON CHEN: THE COUNTRY CLUB GAVELS & THE UPWARD VARIANCE OF INJUSTICE—PART II
Maxx Wolf’s sentencing and his contention that Judge Edward Milton Chen discounted substantial humanitarian mitigation while accepting the government’s far harsher version of the case and imposing a 108-month sentence. The story culminates in a clearly identified satirical, country-club reconstruction reflecting Wolf’s view of how he and Dr. Hope were treated.
OPEN STORY — JUDGE EDWARD MILTON CHEN: THE COUNTRY CLUB GAVELS & THE UPWARD VARIANCE OF INJUSTICE
14. JUDGE EDWARD MILTON CHEN: HOW MANY LIVES DID YOU RUIN?—PART III
Maxx Wolf’s account of the government’s shifting sentencing positions—from Offense Level 42 to 38, then 34 and ultimately 31—his refusal to accept earlier deals, Brian Cooper Dill’s FBI statements, and the pressure Wolf says finally caused him to sign. The story contrasts that federal sentencing arithmetic with Wolf’s documented humanitarian record of more than 1,200 lives helped and asks Judge Edward Milton Chen and former AUSA Mohit Gourisaria a blunt question: how many lives did you save, and how many lives did you ruin?
OPEN STORY — JUDGE EDWARD MILTON CHEN: HOW MANY LIVES DID YOU RUIN?
15. 86 MAXX WOLF: TO ALL THE SCUMBAGS OUT THERE, YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE. WHAT EXACTLY ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT THIS? NOTHING
In this sweeping finale, Maxx Wolf revisits the officials, agents, prison personnel, witnesses, and others named throughout his reporting. Using “86” as satirical shorthand for attempts to remove or silence him, Wolf argues that government positions do not place anyone beyond public scrutiny and previews additional records—including FBI interview materials, affidavits, correspondence, and prison documentation—that he says will be released as the investigation continues. The story concludes with a compilation of Wolf’s favorite satirical videos and a clear statement that his response is publication: more stories, more records, and continued public accountability.
OPEN STORY — 86 MAXX WOLF: WHAT EXACTLY ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT THIS? NOTHING
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