Ulbricht, Who Wanted to Empower Others to Be Free, Will Spend His Own Life in Prison
Silk Road operator and kingpin Ross Ulbricht was sentenced on May 29 to life in prison for his involvement in the hidden Dark Web marketplace. While he is believed to be one of the many individuals behind the Dread Pirate Roberts pseudonym, he will spend his life behind bars in a maximum security penitentiary. Judge Katherine Forrest of Manhattan’s U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York was the overseer of the case and offered no leniency to Ulbricht after his final statement in which he told the court, "I've had my youth, and I know you must take away my middle years,....
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As the end of 2021 nears, Ross Ulbricht remains in prison as he continues to serve his draconian double-life prison sentence for creating a website called the Silk Road. Ever since he was arrested, there’s been an ongoing effort to free Ulbricht, as a great majority of individuals and a large swathe of eminent organizations believe his sentence was unjust and the Silk Road court case was a complete miscarriage of justice.
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It is reasonable to demand that justice be applied equally throughout society. Ross Ulbricht should not die in prison when many powerful criminals live free.
Judge Katherine Forrest. Ross Ulbricht asked last week U. S. District Judge Katherine Forrest to spare him life in prison, admitting the Silk Road website was a "naive and costly idea" that destroyed his future. The 31-year-old Ulbricht expressed his regrets in a letter to Forrest, who is scheduled to sentence him May 29. Ulbricht faces a mandatory minimum 20 years in prison and a maximum of life. "Silk Road was supposed to be about giving people the freedom to make their own choices, to pursue their own happiness, however they individually saw fit," Ulbricht wrote to Forrest. "What it....
Ross Ulbricht, the convicted founder and operator of online black market Silk Road, was sentenced to life in prison yesterday after being found guilty of narcotics and computer hacking charges in February. The severity of the sentencing quickly set off a firestorm of comment and criticism, with debates centering on the alleged hypocrisy of the federal government and the morality of its handling of illicit Internet crime in context of its actions against the traditional financial sector. Such criticisms, however, were interspersed with live drama, as standing outside of a New York....
Ross Ulbricht has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the operation of Silk Road, the now-defunct online dark market. The sentence was handed down by US District Judge Katherine Forrest in New York today, capping roughly a year and a half-long legal process that saw multiple bitcoin auctions and the shock indictment of two federal agents involved in the investigation. In addition to the prison term, Ulbricht has been ordered to pay nearly $200m. In a 28th May court filing, US prosecutors asked Forrest to require that Ulbricht pay $183,961,921 to the....