GenQ - For the not so straight individual

On the morning of June 19 2005, at 1:27 AM Central time Kurt Eichenwald visited the quickstat page for the Neova.net account that would display the signup data for Justin’s websites.

He would have seen that Justin Berry’s porn websites were idle. MexicoFriends had only 6 subscribers and JustinsFriends had only 3. Eichenwald could not have missed the fact that his financial contributions were going into the relaunch of the website.
Justin must have considered Eichenwald to be a very special “subscriber,� if not even an investor, considering that he gave Eichenwald access to the JustinsFriends financial data.

Since Eichenwald started visiting the quickstat pages prior to the actual relaunch of the site (which occurred later in the day of June 19th) and he continued to revisit the site many time a day for many days afterward, it seems clear that Eichenwald knew that a site relaunch was occurring. He seemed to be very interested in the growth of the site.  Contrast these facts with Kurt’s testimony at the Gourlay trial where he said:
 

“Greg sent me an instant message on June 24 or June 25, telling me that they were about to launch this big new Justin site, called justinsfriends.com, which apparently had been tooling around. It had been, you know, there in existence but not really launched. I don’t understand the difference between launched and not launched, but they were going to launch it after the July 4 weekend.�

Here’s another interesting contradiction.

In PACER document 251, it is clear that prior to June 19th Kurt Eichenwald was FTPing files off one of Justin’s servers. He was down loading and purchasing images from Justin. Contrast that with his testimony given at the Gourlay trial. When he says that 
 

“...on Monday, which I believe is....July 10. Justin was showing me something called an FTP site. I don’t know what it stands for, but he was trying to show how the structure of things went from- –from videos being loaded here and how the Web posts play a role. I was learning about computers as well. And he began opening up some of these videos, trying to show me that—the nature of what was happening and who was involved.�

Obviously Kurt knew full well what FTP was and how files moved from provider to consumer. He was FTPing files long before, according to his own testimony, he ever met Justin Berry. Stranger than fiction? You bet. Justin Berry is laughing all the way to the bank.