Ross Ulbricht Found Guilty of Operating Silk Road Dark Market
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....
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Little more than a year after his arrest, 30 year-old Ross Ulbricht has been convicted of starting and running Silk Road the infamous online drug marketplace. On Wednesday, February 4, after only 3 and half hours of deliberation, a jury found Ulbricht guilty of all 7 charges, which included computer hacking, drug trafficking and running a criminal enterprise. The evidence revealed since Ulbricht’s arrest has been damning. Ross was first arrested in a San Francisco public library with his encrypted laptop open, giving police full access to everything. From journal entries documenting the....
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....
Convicted Silk Road operator Ross Ulbricht faces life in prison at a sentencing hearing tomorrow in New York. The end of the trial comes more than a year and a half after Ulbricht's legal battle with the US government first began. Ulbricht was found guilty in February of narcotics, computer hacking and conspiracy charges in connection with his operation of the Silk Road black market. As reported by Wired, prosecutors asked the court earlier this week that Ulbricht be given "a lengthy sentence" to dissuade other would-be dark market operators. "The court thus has an opportunity to send a....
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....
When Ross Ulbricht was found guilty for administering the darknet marketplace known as the Silk Road, it marked the beginning of a campaign by supporters to at least lessen the then 30-year-old’s life sentence. In October 2013, Mr. Ulbricht was working at the San Francisco Public Library when he was surrounded by federal agents who detained him. Sent to New York to face trial for running the darknet marketplace, Mr. Ulbricht was swiftly found guilty. In the weeks after the guilty verdict, increasingly worrisome circumstances regarding the case surfaced, such as corruption of lead....