Silk Road Figure Variety Jones Claims Corrupt FBI Agent Is Making Threats
Variety Jones, believed by some to be the Silk Road architect and a mentor to Ross Ulbricht, claims a corrupt FBI agent has threatened him for not agreeing to help him access a bitcoin wallet worth $70 million, according to a report by digital journalist Joseph Cox in Motherboard. Jones says the agent wants him to move to Singapore where he will set up a safe house and told him immigration police are hunting him in Thailand where he lives. The agent had previously leaked Jones secret grand jury information and also tipped him ahead of the investigations into Carl Mark Force and Shaun....
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A corrupt FBI agent is planning to extort $71m from Silk Road mastermind Ross Ulbricht, according to new allegations from a former Silk Road advisor. In a forum post issued this weekend and later publicized by Motherboard, Variety Jones, an account understood to belong to one of Silk Road's key advisors, released details of his alleged correspondence with an agent known as 'Diamond'. In it, he claims the FBI employee - a seasoned extortioner - has obtained a forgotten Silk Road wallet said to contain more than 300,000 BTC ($71.4m), and that he sought to use blackmail and torture as a means....
Is Ross Ulbricht's family in danger? According to CoinTelegraph, Diamond, the alleged alias of a possibly corrupt FBI agent, has delivered threats of torture towards Ulbricht's mother and sister, hoping to obtain the password for a bitcoin account allegedly containing 300,000 bitcoins (roughly about $70 million in USD) that once belonged to Ulbricht. Silk Road architect Variety Jones has also received death threats from the elusive Diamond, who believes that Jones can help him obtain the password, as well as the funds. Jones mentions that Diamond first approached him about moving to....
Diamond, which is believed to be an online alias of an unknown corrupt FBI agent, has been threatening to kill Silk Road Architect Variety Jones and torture Ross Ulbricht’s mother and sister to obtain the password to an encrypted bitcoin wallet containing over 300,000 BTC or US$70 million which previously belonged to Ulbricht, the creator of the Silk Road. Diamond believed that Variety Jones, with his involvement in creating the Silk Road could help him gain access to the funds. “He wants me to move to Singapore, where he can set up a safe house and know that I'm clear of the clutches of....
Lawyers representing former Silk Road operator Ross Ulbricht announced via a press conference that they believe they have discovered another corrupt government agent involved in the case. New chat logs unearthed by Ulbricht’s defense reveal an ongoing conversation between the “Dread Pirate Roberts,” Ulbricht’s pseudonym, and “alpacino,” an agent connected with the United States Drug Enforcement Administration. Previously believed to be one of two corrupt government agents already discovered to be involved in the case, these new chat logs, hidden away on a backup server for an obscure....
U.S. District Court in Baltimore, Md. sentenced a Utah man whose faked murder helped law enforcement put an end to the Silk Road Marketplace, according to The Baltimore Sun. The court sentenced Curtis Clark Green, a senior administrator for the Silk Road website, to time served — two days — and four years of supervised release for his role in running the site. Green, 50 was awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute cocaine. Green’s attorney, Scott Williams, said Silk Road owner Ross Ulbricht took advantage of....