Lyn Ulbricht Sounds the Alarm About Government Abuse in the Digital Age
Lyn Ulbricht, who is waging a campaign to clear her convicted son Ross Ulbricht, presents in a YouTube video (below) new information about her son's case that she claims sheds light on how the government investigates and prosecutes people. Interviewed by Luke Rukowski, founder of WeAreChange.org, an organization working to expose corruption, Ulbricht claims there are many problems with how the government conducted the Silk Road case that people need to be aware of. Ross Ulbricht has appealed his conviction and life sentence for running the online drug marketplace Silk Road. Rukowski notes....
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Ross Ulbricht has not even been sentenced yet for his conviction as leader of Silk Road, the Amazon for drugs, and he's already requesting a new trial. Joshua Dratel, Ulbricht's attorney, filed a motion that includes evidence that suggests the federal government gained access to the server that Silk Road was on without a warrant. Further, the defense argues that the government may have tried to hack into the site. On February 4, after only 3 ½ hours of deliberation, a New York federal jury found Ulbricht guilty on all seven charges, including drug trafficking, computer hacking, money....
The alleged architect of the first Silk Road, known to users as Dread Pirate Roberts and to the government as Ross Ulbricht, is currently facing two separate federal cases. The first is in Baltimore for a single murder-for-hire plot which the government feels it has enough evidence to proceed. The other is in New York for four counts of participation in a narcotics trafficking conspiracy, running a continuing criminal enterprise, computer hacking, and a money laundering conspiracy. Also read: SecondMarket's Bitcoin Investment Trust Syndicate Won 48,000 BTC in Latest Silk Road Bitcoin....
Following the conclusion of the trial of Ross Ulbricht, the government revealed what the Ulbricht's defense had already known (but was barred from discussing during the trial), that two of the US government agents who gathered much of the evidence that convicted Ulbricht, the Secret Service's Shaun Bridges and the DEA's Carl Mark Force IV, were being indicted for stealing a great deal of Ulbricht's horde of bitcoins. Prior to the jury verdict, such information could easily have contributed to a doubtful jury or even a bias toward jury nullification amongst jurors. Of course, this....
Ross Ulbricht, founder of Bitcoin darknet marketplace Silk Road, is suing over the right to communicate with his father.
Accused Silk Road mastermind Ross Ulbricht has been found guilty on all charges on the first day of jury deliberations. Ulbricht, alleged by the US government to be the so-called Dread Pirate Roberts behind the now-defunct online black marketplace, was ruled guilty on a total of seven charges, which include narcotics trafficking on the Internet, conspiracy to commit money laundering and computer hacking. The jury received initial instructions on 4th February, and reached a verdict after three and a half hours of deliberation. The verdict marks the beginning of a new phase in Ulbricht's....