Perp Behind Ricin Letter to Obama Was a Silk Road Vendor

Perp Behind Ricin Letter to Obama Was a Silk Road Vendor

Some interesting news coming from the Department of Homeland Security's acting assistant secretary for legislative affairs. In a letter to senators, Brian de Vallance noted that the suspect behind those letters to President Obama which contained Ricin was actually a vendor on the Silk Road deep web drug market (which used Bitcoin as a medium to exchange buy/sell drugs). "Of recent noteworthy interest was the determination that the suspect who had sent Ricin to President Obama earlier this year was a vendor on the Silk Road site," he wrote in the November 12 letter. The suspect was not....


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