Chad in Russia
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Escaped Bulgarian prison. Interpol Red Notice. Beat 3 US extraditions. US passport revoked. Caribbean. Cuba. Russian political asylum. Reads like a drunken spy thriller. Unfortunately, all true.
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| 2 |  I need help, and I’m asking people to step in now.
For anyone who doesn’t know the full background, I’ve been under a sealed U.S. federal criminal case for nearly twenty years. I was issued an Interpol Red Notice, arrested abroad, fought extradition, and I still have never had the underlying case heard by a judge.
We have a clear path to dismissal on venue. The problem is getting it pushed forward past the prosecutor who keeps blocking it and in front of a judge who can rule on it.
That means we need the right lawyer.
We now have a focused list of lawyers and organizations that are much more likely to handle a federal criminal case like mine, especially on a pro bono basis. What I need now is people helping contact them, making introductions, forwarding the case summary, and getting this in front of someone willing to take action.
There’s also a situation in my life deteriorating fast, and I need movement on this now.
If you’ve ever asked how you can help, this is it.
Please join the legal group:
https://t.me/TTFLegal
Even one introduction to the right lawyer could finally get the venue issue past the prosecutor and in front of a judge. | 67 |
| 3 | They put me in the back seat between two Bulgarian police officers. Then I noticed a second unmarked car following us.
I was a Microsoft conference speaker who hadn’t even made it to breakfast. Yet four armed cops apparently weren’t enough.
Would you still assume this was a paperwork mistake?
Then they finally told me why.
https://chadzhower.substack.com/p/i-still-thought-facts-mattered | 64 |
| 4 |  How do you measure a successful day? I used to go by what time I had my first beer, but that system falls apart when I wake up anywhere from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m.
So I need a better metric. W is wake-up time. W+4 means I made it four hours. W+2 means the day had some problems.
Today was W+0.
At least the math is getting easier. | 69 |
| 5 |  Edward Snowden and I belong to a short list: Americans with political asylum in Russia.
The United States issued an Interpol Red Notice for me, revoked both my passports, and kept me accused for nearly twenty years without a trial.
This little book is Russia’s answer:
No. | 120 |
| 6 |  My favorite part of the day has become the hour before sleep.
A little wine, a podcast in the dark, buried under the covers, slowly fading out. For a little while, the weight of everything gets quieter. Nothing needs me. Nothing hurts quite as much.
Then morning comes, and the whole weight of my life is waiting for me again. Waking up means realizing I have another entire day to drag myself through before I get to disappear into the dark again. | 112 |
| 7 |  This photo was taken on one of the biggest days of my life. I had just returned to Russia after 15 years trapped in the Caribbean without the medical care I needed, followed by weeks in a Cuban hospital. Some days I could barely walk or talk, and I was heavily medicated because it was the only way I could make the trip.
For years, my life had been about surviving from one day to the next. Returning to Russia was the first moment I felt I might have a future again. Medical care was finally within reach, and for the first time in 15 years, I was moving toward something instead of simply trying to survive.
This was my first real step toward freedom. | 106 |
| 8 |  Find your trains and your beer. Whatever gets you out when you’re stuck in a funk and makes the day feel a little less heavy. For me today, it was an hour-long walk, the train museum for the first time in 25 years, and a couple beers. None of it fixed anything. But I feel better, and some days that’s enough. | 85 |
| 9 |  Russian Public Transportation Is Different | 76 |
| 10 | It didn’t take much today.
One small setback, nothing serious, and my mood went straight into a tailspin again.
So I’m out walking, heading to the train museum for the first time in about 25 years. Hopefully trains help. The walking usually does.
I’ve already had one beer, and I know there’ll be another.
Some days are about fixing things. Today is more about finding enough distractions to make it to the end. | 72 |
| 11 |  A U.S. Embassy officer walked into a Bulgarian police station with my passport and a thick file already waiting. That should bother you. It still bothers me. Why did he have my passport? Why was the file already prepared? Why did the Police Chief leave his own office? And why did the Embassy show up after I specifically told the police not to call them?
He didn’t ask where my son was. He didn’t ask what happened. He didn’t ask if I understood why I was there. He waited until the room was empty, then opened with prison. Not help. Not questions. Prison. That was the moment I understood the Embassy wasn’t there to protect me. They were there to break me.
https://chadzhower.substack.com/p/jekyll-left-the-room | 78 |
| 12 |  This is what “nonurgent medical care” looks like according to the FBI.
This photo was taken after neurosurgery earlier this year. I’ve had two major surgeries in the past year alone, plus several other medical interventions since returning to Russia. A federal prosecutor searched online, decided my condition wasn’t serious, and used his own Google diagnosis to help deny me the care I desperately needed.
Russia and Cuba saved my life while my own government tried to kill me by preventing me from receiving medical care. I’m alive because other countries stepped in when my own refused.
But I still need help. I need this case resolved, and I need justice for what the FBI has done to my health, my freedom, and my life. | 76 |
| 13 | I’ve spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on lawyers. We already raised the venue issue, but the prosecutor has resisted even letting the court consider it.
This case should be dismissed outright. It never should’ve reached an indictment. The government’s own records contradict the accusation, including where I was and whether the alleged conduct happened in Pennsylvania at all.
I need one experienced federal criminal defense lawyer willing to read the evidence and fight to get this case before a court.
Please read and restack this. More importantly, put it in front of the right lawyer.
https://chadzhower.substack.com/p/why-dont-i-just-get-a-lawyer | 81 |
| 14 | I still have food and beer. I have bowling too, although I only manage to find people to go once a week. At least that’s something. I’ve lost interest in nearly every other hobby except bike riding, and winter is about to take that away. I ride so much that I wear myself out and have to spend days recovering. Most days, I’m simply trying to reach nightfall. For some reason, the darkness feels more comforting. | 80 |
| 15 |  The Bulgarian Popcorn Machine | 88 |
| 16 |  Sin texto... | 92 |
| 17 |  “Why don’t you just get a lawyer?” I have.
I’ve spent hundreds of thousands of dollars, including $100,000 on the last lawyer. Every filing and DOJ response meant another bill until there was nothing left.
I’ve offered to surrender for a trial within 70 days. The DOJ wants me in jail first but won’t agree not to delay the trial. I might lose years of my life before ever being convicted.
I’m tired. I’m broke. My family is barely surviving, and I need one qualified lawyer willing to look before the government takes the rest of my life.
Please read this. More importantly, please help me get it in front of the right lawyer.
https://chadzhower.substack.com/p/why-dont-i-just-get-a-lawyer | 93 |
| 18 | The FBI baked a pie,
Filled it up with one big lie.
Took it east and took it west,
Asked three countries which was best.
They all said, “No, take it back.”
Seventeen years. Same old crap. | 95 |
| 19 |  Sin texto... | 99 |
| 20 |  How do you react when the person from your own government walks into a foreign police station and becomes the threat?
I was in Bulgaria, exhausted, confused, and still trying to understand why the police had taken me from my hotel. Then the U.S. Embassy showed up uninvited. They had my passport. They had a thick folder already prepared. And they wanted me talking without a lawyer before I even knew what game I was in.
This chapter is where the room changes. The police chief fades into the background, the Embassy takes over, and the case stops feeling like paperwork and starts feeling like a machine already moving around me.
Read it here:
https://chadzhower.substack.com/p/the-cowboy | 90 |
