People Are Making Art for Convicted Silk Road Admin Ross Ulbricht
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....
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Ross Ulbricht, the alleged mastermind behind the only online drug marketplace, has been convicted of running Silk Road under the name Dread Pirate Roberts. He faces life in prison. Ross Ulbricht, 30, who refused to testify in his own defense, was convicted of all seven crimes he was charged with, including including trafficking drugs on the Internet, narcotics-trafficking conspiracy, running a continuing criminal enterprise, computer-hacking conspiracy and money-laundering conspiracy. The verdict came after little more than three hours of deliberations from the jury. The jury consisted of....
Lyn Ulbricht, the mother of Ross Ulbricht, the man convicted of running the online dark web marketplace Silk Road, has suffered a heart attack according to the Free Ross official Twitter account. Mrs Ulbricht has expressed shock and worry over the arrest of her child, Ross. She has been a tireless campaigner in her son's case. Lyn suffered a heart attack. She is in hospital and she will be ok. She continues to make improvements every day, watch for recovery updates. - Free_Ross (@Free_Ross) October 30, 2015. Despite the conviction, Ross Ulbricht enjoys myriad supporters, including many....
This Friday Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the underground black market Silk Road, was sentenced to life in prison after making a plea for leniency. Silk Road was an unregulated online marketplace where buyers could buy drugs by paying with Bitcoin. Ross was convicted last February on seven charges going from drug trafficking to money laundering and he could have been sentenced to only 20 years, but U. S. District Judge Katherine B. Forrest stated she was making an example out of Ross Ulbricht. Ross Ulbricht has been jailed since the moment of his arrest back in October 2013 and never....
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....
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....