Site Raising Money To Free Silk Road Owner
Ross Ulbricht, the alleged founder of the notorious Silk Road drug exchange under the online name of "Dread Pirate Roberts", has had his trial date set to November after pleading not guilty in his hearing. Some supporters of Ulbricht have founded a website to try to raise donations for his defense trial which is set in November. Ulbricht is charged with running an illegal drug operation, and attempting to hire someone to kill one of the users in the silk road. freeross.org says they need help with the case and that:"No donation is too small. Credit card, PayPal, bitcoin all work to help....
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