New York Stock Trader Kills Roommate, Press Connects the Murder to Bitcoin
The website DNAinfo ran a story on January 13 about a murder in NYC with the headline “Bitcoin Trader Accused of Murder.” The headline made it sound as if Bitcoin was somehow connected to the act. The facts of the case are different. The only apparent link to Bitcoin is that the accused, Quentin Capobianco, an 18-year-old “teen” investor, had traded Bitcoin at some point. Capobianco is accused of bludgeoning his roommate, a 29-year-old attorney named Jesse Smith, with a hammer. CoinTelegraph contacted the Queens County District Attorney’s office this morning for comments. The source at the....
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Ross Ulbricht, the alleged owner and operator of Silk Road, is currently in two federal cases. In New York he is facing charges of narcotics conspiracy, money laundering and computer fraud and in Baltimore for a single murder-for-hire plot. Ulbricht will go on trial in New York on January 5, 2015, and while murder is not part of the charges he is facing, it is being used to discredit him and continues to creep into the case. In response to a request from prosecutors, Judge Katherine Forrest has allowed prosecutors to keep a list of their witnesses secret until January 2nd, the Friday....
The case, the website, the circumstances and the source all share parallels with another recent federal murder-for-hire prosecution.
The alleged architect of the first Silk Road, known to users as Dread Pirate Roberts and to the government as Ross Ulbricht, is currently facing two separate federal cases. The first is in Baltimore for a single murder-for-hire plot which the government feels it has enough evidence to proceed. The other is in New York for four counts of participation in a narcotics trafficking conspiracy, running a continuing criminal enterprise, computer hacking, and a money laundering conspiracy. Also read: SecondMarket's Bitcoin Investment Trust Syndicate Won 48,000 BTC in Latest Silk Road Bitcoin....
This letter is the latest in an ongoing series of open letters to Ross Ulbricht hosted by Bitcoin.com. Dear Ross, How’s the weather in NYC? It was overcast here in New Hampshire today. The power went out in the small town where I live, and even after it was turned back on, our ISP remained down for hours. It put a serious cramp in producing The Daily....
Bitcoin is now being used by bad people to satisfy their hate. The U.S. Department of Justice announced Tuesday that a Mississippi woman was sentenced to spend a maximum of 10 years behind bars for her role in an unsuccessful murder-for-hire plot. Forty-year old Jessica Leeann Sledge pled guilty in February to hiring a purported assassin on the […]