Ross Ulbricht's sister decribes the character of her brother, who is facing life in prison

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....

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....

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....

Unfortunately, the claims of tampered evidence being used in the court trial fell on deaf ears. Although two corrupt law enforcement agents have stolen bitcoins from Silk Road and attempted to extort him, the panel of judges was not overly sympathetic to these claims. Ever since Ross Ulbricht was convicted to life in prison, there has been some significant backlash over this decision. In fact, his defense lawyer continues to question the credibility of the collected evidence. Moreover, two corrupted former law enforcement agents were involved in this case as well. Right now, a three-judge....

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....