Craig Wright Committed Grand Scale Forgery And Lied To Court, Judge Rules
A UK judge has officially ruled that Craig Wright is guilty of forgery on a grand scale following the computer scientists decisive court loss in March.
In a written judgment published on Monday, High Court Justice James Mellor said Wright lied extensively and repeatedly in court to support his biggest lie his claim to be Bitcoins pseudonymous creator, Satoshi Nakamoto.
Wrights Overwhelming Forgeries
Dr. Wright presents himself as an extremely clever person, wrote Mellor. However, in my judgment, he is not nearly as clever as he thinks he is.
The statement is a follow-up to Mellors decisive remarks immediately following a six-week trial against Wright earlier this year, after which he concluded Wright was not Bitcoins creator in response to overwhelming evidence against him.
Wrights prosecutor was the Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA), a consortium of major crypto industry firms aimed at protecting open-source developers and removing patents as a barrier to adoption. The group intended to put an end to Wrights long history of defamation cases launched against his vocal online critics.
During the trial, COPA accused Wright of industrial scale forgery, presenting evidence of multiple fabricated documents previously used by Wright as evidence that he authored the Bitcoin white paper.
Wright dismissed all expert witnesses during the trial who testified that such documents showed evidence of forgery including an expert hired by his own lawyers.
Lies, Forgery, and Technobabble
Under cross-examination, Wright failed to name any parties hed sent Bitcoin to as Satoshi who might be able to reinforce his claims. Later on, one of Wrights personal witnesses his sister said she believed Wright was Satoshi because he liked Karate and was fond of Japanese names as a kid.
Nothing in her evidence gave any credence to Dr.Wrights claim to be Satoshi, and she did not support the assertion that he shared a pre-release portion of the Bitcoin whitepaper with her, Mellors statement read.
The judges lengthy statement included the word forgery 130 times, lie 123 times, and fraud 19 times. Upon having those lies exposed. Mellor said Wright would usually resort to either redirecting blame for his predicament or outright technobabble.
I was left with the clear impression that he simply engaged in technobabble precisely because he was not able to put forward any coherent explanation for the forgeries which had been exposed, and yet he could not bring himself to accept that he was responsible for them, the judge concluded.
In a statement to Twitter on Monday, Wright said he intended to appeal the courts decision concerning his identity. I would like to acknowledge and thank all my supporters for their unwavering encouragement and support, he said.
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