New Charges Brought Up Against Accused Silk Road Creator Ross Ulbricht
Prosecutors has brought up new charges in against the accused Silk Road creator (also known as Dread Pirate Roberts) Ross Ulbricht, who was arrested late last year for running allegedly running a web service that allowed online users to purchase narcotics and other illicit items using the bitcoin digital currency. As of Thursday, a new indictment was filed against Ulbricht, adding narcotics trafficking charges, distribution of narcotics via the Internet, and conspiracy to traffic in fraudulent identification documents. Specifically, these charges accuses Ulbricht of assisting in the....
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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....
Ross Ulbricht will no longer be standing trial on November 10th, 2014 for his alleged part in the Silk Road underground marketplace. Instead, Wired Reporter Andy Greenberg has reported that the trial has been delayed by two months, to January 2015. Ross Ulbricht faces multiple charges of drug trafficking, computer hacking, money laundering, and "continuing a criminal enterprise." The charges are serious to say the least. Silk Road, an infamous Deep Net marketplace billed as "Amazon for drugs," was taken offline by joint government agency action in October of 2013. On that day, the FBI....
Here at CryptoCoinsNews we have been following the story of Ross Ulbricht, the alleged leader and criminal mastermind behind Bitcoin-dependent website Silk Road. The website was taken down by federal authorities in 2013, and Ulbricht arrested. The trial is set to begin this week, and the evidence against him has long since been released. Now, the actual charges and potential sentence are revealed, as he looks at life in prison for multiple counts and criminal offenses related to his alleged control of Silk Road. Also read: Judge Rejects Ross Ulbricht's Silk Road Defence On a Technicality.....
"Ross Ulbricht cannot have been involved in money-laundering at Silk Road because Bitcoin is not regarded as a currency." The IRS ruling gives Ulbricht's lawyer weapons to fight. Remember Ross Ulbricht? The alleged creator of the Silk Road has been facing numerous charges after his black market was taken down last year. After pleading not guilty to all charges in February, it seems he now received some help from a rather unexpected source. No money to launder. In a motion filed over the past weekend, Ulbricht's lawyer Joshua Dratel argued that all charges against his client should be....
It's been a while since we've heard about the pending Silk Road case, in which Ross Ulbricht (a.k.a. Dread Pirate Roberts) is accused to be the founder of the now-closed dark web illicit marcketplace (though another was formed in its place). Not, Ulbricht's mother is speaking out with regard to ongoing issues. Ms. Ulbricht spoke to WeAreChange.org, a media organization that dedicates itself to "expose corruption worldwide". While she admits she doesn't know a whole lot about the case, she's confident that her son, Ross, isn't the perpetrator of the crimes he's been accused of. This....