Operation Site Down is the umbrella name for a law enforcement initiative conducted by the United States' FBI and law enforcement agents from ten other countries which resulted in a raid on targets on June 29, 2005. Three separate undercover investigations were involved, based in Chicago, Charlotte and San Jose. The raid consisted of approximately 70 searches in the U.S. and approximately 20 others in ten other countries in an effort to disrupt and dismantle many of the leading Warez groups which distribute and trade in copyrighted software, movies, music and games on the Internet. 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. The lead prosecutor for the government in this case was Assistant U.S. Attorney Pravin Rao. Up to May 6, 2008, there had been over 40 convictions as a result of the ongoing investigation. 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. An FBI undercover agent, who went by the alias Griffen created two California Gigabit Top Sites (located at Hurricane Electric): LAD and CHUD Chirayu Patel (nebula), a member of Boozers, becomes a SiteOp on LAD and CHUD which are both hosted in Fremont, California (which is where Patel resides). Patel, through his friends and sources, acquired major groups affiliates such as Centropy and TDA (The Divine Alcoholics) to the two fed topsites. Over the two years that both LAD and CHUD were online, the FBI collected IPs of some of the top copyright infringement providers. FBI was able to get Patel's address because he sent Griffen some motorcycle stunt DVDs via mail and gave his return address on the envelope Centropy leader, who went by the alias of both 'marvel' and 'cartel', was arrested in Indiana. The Centropy Herbie release was on the server pre'd, meaning that even though the Herbie release was released a day after the raids, it had already been available on topsites. Sentences Mark G. Carter II (a.k.a. Burner), 29, of Upland, California, was sentenced to 30 months' imprisonment, and ordered to pay $34,964 in restitution. Judge Whyte also sentenced the defendant to a three-year period of supervised release. On December 12, 2005, Carter pleaded guilty to one count