Alleged Silk Road Ringleader Ross Ulbricht Indicted on Drugs, Money Laundering
Ross Ulbricht, the 29-year-old alleged mastermind behind the now-defunct online black market Silk Road has been indicted on charges related to computer hacking, drugs and money laundering, federal prosecutors revealed on 4th February. Notably, prosecutors found that Ulbricht engaged in "continuing criminal enterprise," a charge typically reserved for mafia members and high-profile gangsters, and sometimes referred to as "the kingpin statute". The charge adds 20 years to Ulbricht's minimum sentence, and carries a potential life sentence. Ulbricht faces a maximum life sentence for the crimes....
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The alleged leader of the former Silk Road online drug marketplace Ross Ulbricht (also known as D. P. R., Dread Pirate Roberts) has been formally indicted on charges relating to drugs, money-laundering, and a charge of running "criminal enterprise". If convicted, Ulbricht faces a minimum of 30 years in prison, and maximum sentence of life in prison. Defense attorney Joshua Dratel will be representing Mr. Ulbricht in attempt to prove that he is not the alleged ringleader of the Silk Road operation - closed down in late 2013. "Ross will be pleading not guilty at the arraignment. 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....
You might know him as "Dread Pirate Roberts" or just DPR but his real name is supposedly Ross Ulbricht, and he is the alleged founder of the underground exchange Silk Road. Mr. Ulbricht is currently facing charges of drug trafficking, computer hacking, money laundering, and "continuing criminal enterprise." The FBI has claimed to have gained the IP address to a server hosting Silk Road. This server led to the connection and current case against Mr. Ulbricht, but the means as to how the FBI gained this information has been in question. Mr. Ulbricht's defenses have made arguments last week....
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....
For the last two months, the lawyers for Ross Ulbricht have tried to shift the focus of the case onto the FBI, bringing into question the legality of their actions. How did the FBI obtain the information that brought down Silk Road and leads the current case again Ulbricht? Mr. Ulbricht is facing charges of drug trafficking, computer hacking, money laundering, and "continuing criminal enterprise." Ross Ulbricht, better know to many as the alleged DPR or the Dread Pirate Roberts, stands accused of creating a billion-dollar online black market known as Silk Road. Silk Road is a marketplace....