Silk Road Trial Begins in New York
Alleged Silk Road mastermind Ross Ulbricht's trial began this morning in a New York City courtroom, where he faces life in prison for accusations that he managed and operated the now-infamous online black market under the pseudonym Dread Pirate Roberts. Ulbricht entered the courtroom in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York at 09:20 local time with his legal team led by attorney Joshua Dratel by his side. He faces four narcotics charges and three charges related to computer hacking, trafficking fraudulent identification documents and money laundering conspiracy,....
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In the Second District Court of New York, the trial of Ross "Dread Pirate Roberts" Ulbricht began with jury selection on Tuesday. Ulbricht, 30, is being accused of running the notorious online marketplace 'Silk Road' back in 2013 before Federal authorities arrested him. He is faced with two Federal cases: there are charges of narcotics conspiracy, money laundering, and computer fraud in New York, and six charges of murder-for-hire plots in Baltimore. These charges could land him a sentence of life in prison. Also read: Silk Road Trial Evidence Against Ross Ulbricht Revealed. Ross Ulbricht....
The New York City prosecutors' evidence against Ross Ulbricht has been released in the build up to the January 2015 Silk Road Trial. Ulbricht stands accused of being Dread Pirate Roberts (DPR), the head of Silk Road, one of the first in a long line of underground Deep Web/Dark Net marketplaces that rely on technology and cryptography to function. Though it has been over a year since the arrest of Ross Ulbricht at the beginning of October in 2013, the list of evidence that will be used by the Silk Road prosecutors in the January trial was obtained recently by the Daily Dot. Ross Ulbricht's....
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 federal judge in charge of the tremendous Silk Road trial has been facing several online threats revealed during the previous days. The Darknet has posted leaked personal information and calls to "swat" her home. Also read: Judge Rejects Ross Ulbricht Silk Road Defense On a Technicality. Dissatisfied with the judge's rejection of the arguments put forward by Ulbricht's defense, who argued that the FBI unlawfully penetrated into Silk Road servers, Darknet users have taken the initiative to create an underground web page in the form of a Wiki, dedicated to the New York judge. The Wiki's....
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....