Documents Related to Ulbricht's Silk Road Trial Revealed
Yesterday a document containing 122 pages of plain text related to Ross Ulbricht's Silk Road trial was released. The trial was immediately sealed due to the ongoing investigation of Carl Mark Force IV. The order to unseal came into effect with his arrest. Preet Bharara is pleading to Judge Forrest that the terminally corrupted Baltimore investigation somehow ceased to have any meaning since those conducting the investigation lost its credibility. These 122 pages represent almost the totality of the documents pertaining to the investigation of corrupt agents that had been sealed during the....
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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 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....
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....
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....
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,....