Silk Road Accused Ulbricht Pleads Not Guilty, Begins Long Defense
Ross Ulbricht, the Texas native arrested in San Francisco last October in relation to the Silk Road online black marketplace, has entered a formal plea of 'not guilty' to all charges. The indictment hearing for the man accused of being the site's 'Dread Pirate Roberts' comes after more than 120 days in detention and interestingly, did not include any of the (up to) six alleged attempts to murder Silk Road cohorts by contract, none of which resulted in an actual death. The hearing and not-guilty plea comes after Ulbricht was formally indicted last Tuesday on charges of drug trafficking,....
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Accused Silk Road mastermind Ross Ulbricht has been found guilty on all charges on the first day of jury deliberations. Ulbricht, alleged by the US government to be the so-called Dread Pirate Roberts behind the now-defunct online black marketplace, was ruled guilty on a total of seven charges, which include narcotics trafficking on the Internet, conspiracy to commit money laundering and computer hacking. The jury received initial instructions on 4th February, and reached a verdict after three and a half hours of deliberation. The verdict marks the beginning of a new phase in Ulbricht's....
Source: YouTube user Ross Ulbricht. In a Manhattan court, Ross Ulbricht pleaded 'not guilty' today on all charges related to his alleged founding and managing of the Silk Road online drug marketplace on the darknet, taken down late last year. Ulbricht's formal indictment came on Tuesday, in which a charge we haven't previously seen of running a "criminal enterprise" was made known to the public (other charges include narcotic trafficking and money laundering). Ulbricht's defense attorney, Joshua Dratel, had already hinted that Ulbricht would be pleading not guilty this week - eliminating....
The convicted Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht is currently seeking a retrial based on the assumption that he was denied his fifth amendment right. Last month, the 29-year old internet entrepreneur was found guilty of charges related to his active involvement in running Silk Road - an online drug marketplace. He was also held guilty for executing computer hacking conspiracies, and committing narcotics trafficking and money laundering. In its motion filed in New York federal court, Ulbricht's defense however accused the government of failing to "provide exculpatory material and information....
For the last two months, the lawyers for Ross Ulbricht have tried to shift the focus of the case onto the FBI, bringing into question the legality of their actions. How did the FBI obtain the information that brought down Silk Road and leads the current case again Ulbricht? Mr. Ulbricht is facing charges of drug trafficking, computer hacking, money laundering, and "continuing criminal enterprise." Ross Ulbricht, better know to many as the alleged DPR or the Dread Pirate Roberts, stands accused of creating a billion-dollar online black market known as Silk Road. Silk Road is a marketplace....
The New York City prosecutors' evidence against Ross Ulbricht has been released in the build up to the January 2015 Silk Road Trial. Ulbricht stands accused of being Dread Pirate Roberts (DPR), the head of Silk Road, one of the first in a long line of underground Deep Web/Dark Net marketplaces that rely on technology and cryptography to function. Though it has been over a year since the arrest of Ross Ulbricht at the beginning of October in 2013, the list of evidence that will be used by the Silk Road prosecutors in the January trial was obtained recently by the Daily Dot. Ross Ulbricht's....