"For the second time in three days, we unseal criminal charges against a sitting member of our State Legislature," Preet Bharara, the United States attorney in Manhattan, said at a news conference.
But in speaking about the antiwar protesters who were arrested in the spring, she said: "We only unsealed the records of people who had previous protest arrests, just so that the court would have a full picture of the defendants' backgrounds.
The image doesn't give us much – just the sticker placement on the device – but since the rest of the files will be unsealed in December, we can expect this thing to launch a month or so before that.
We must leave our envelopes unsealed so that staff can read, copy, scan and send to whatever other agency studies our correspondence.
And, of course, we don't know if the conspiracy charge unsealed on Thursday is the only charge Assange will face once extradited to the U.S.
"Sometimes we can't, either because we're legally prohibited (in which case we sometimes seek to lift gag orders or unseal search warrants) or we don't have their verified contact information," he wrote.
Would we all be tweeting the numbers as the capsules were unsealed?
Yesterday, the district attorney in the Bronx unsealed a 30-page indictment aimed at what he called "the largest policy ring we've seen in decades".
Thanks to a filing unsealed on 3 October in the Microsoft vs. Samsung US District Court patent-royalty case filed in early August 2014, we now know that Samsung paid Microsoft $1bn in 2013 for a single year's worth of patent-licensing royalties.
Chamber on west, unsealed.
The indictment was unsealed Tuesday.
