[1][2] On February 1, 2006, the U.S. Attorney's Office under Patrick Fitzgerald announced that it was indicting nineteen members of Risciso, a software and movie infringement ring, in U.S. District Court in Chicago.
As part of each plea agreement, each defendant has agreed to forfeit the equipment that was seized during the federal search warrants executed on June 29, 2005.
Gregory Dickman, 25, of Wilmington, North Carolina, was sentenced to 8 months' home confinement, three years of probation and ordered to pay $31,515 in restitution.
Johnny Russell, 34, of Spring, Texas, was sentenced to 8 months in a community confinement facility, three years of probation, and ordered to pay a $11,508 in restitution.
In episode nine, released in the beginning of June 2005, Sandro, whose IRC alias is Drosan, is messaged by a member named Gryffin.
However, it was pointed out that his name is similar to the nickname of the actual lead FBI agent, Griffen, responsible for the busts in Operation Site Down.
Also, in the messaging session between Drosan and Gryffin, the music playing in the background periodically says "he works for the FBI" in a trancelike fashion.
Furthermore, Bruce Forrest, who was quoted in a Wired article[6] as a self-proclaimed "double agent", was an active correspondent for The Scene series.