The judge was supposed to go to Russia with Ritter. He just said he was "cancelled". I guess the could mean his passport was confiscated too. Larry Johnson made it over there though.
Larry Johnson of VIPS fame, the guys trying to elect John Kerry a while back along with Joseph “Sweet Tea” Wilson and his two wives, the French gal with all the ties to an African dictator Omar Bongo and the super dooper deep cover CIA wife Valery Plame (noted for being an anti nuclear Global Zero activist), and a now deceased or absent wannabe congresswoman.