Senior Silk Road 2.0 Admin Gets Eight Years Prison
The aftermath of the Silk Road 2.0 marketplace bust in 2014 continues, with its second-in-command administrator sentenced to eight years in prison. Police found packaged Xanax in Farrell’s home. Brian Farrell was sentenced on June 3 at the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington at Seattle, to the exact term requested by....
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28-year-old Brian Farrell aka “DoctorClu”, a senior admin and second-in-command on Silk Road 2.0, the copycat clone of the original underground darknet website Silk Road was sentenced to eight years in prison. DoctorClu, the right-hand man to Silk Road 2.0 chief Blake Benthall aka “Defcon” and second-highest admin at Silk Road 2.0 was sentenced to 8 years in prison after pleading guilty to one count of distribution of cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine. Brian Farrell, plead guilty in March 2016 and his plea was accepted the following month. The charge carries a minimum sentence of five....
According to reports, the founder of the now-defunct Silk Road 2 marketplace has forfeited more than half-million dollars worth of bitcoin to British authorities. White’s Silk Road 2 admin handle was called “Cthulhu,” and he also dubbed himself as “DPR2.”
Silk Road 2 Admin Thomas White Forfeits $667K in Bitcoin
In April 2019, Bitcoin.com News reported on Thomas White, the lead administrator of the now-defunct Silk Road 2 darknet marketplace (DNM), getting sentenced to five years in prison. The Silk Road 2 (SR2) DNM was the original Silk....
The lawyer who defended Peter Nash, one of the three men indicted on charges of conspiracy to distribute narcotics, commit computer hacking, and commit money laundering in the Silk Road has hinted at a no mercy sentencing for the third accused person. Andrew Frisch says 27-year-old Irishman, Gary Davis, an alleged Silk Road admin, is unlikely to avoid a “severe” prison sentence as the last of the three men to face charges with no new information to reveal to the US police. Nash, Davis and Andrew Jones were the three arrested moderators of Silk Road — a site that distributed large amounts....
The founder of the darknet marketplace Silk Road which dealt exclusively with Bitcoin, Ross Ulbricht, recently announced that he had spent 10 years in prison. Despite his fraudulent actions, Ulbricht is a popular figure in the crypto community as he is believed to have contributed to the accelerated adoption of the flagship cryptocurrency, Bitcoin. Silk Road […]
A team of federal law enforcement officials in New York have announced the unsealing of charges against Roger Thomas Clark, a senior adviser to Silk Road operator Ross Ulbricht. According to the unsealed charges, Clark was a close confidante to Ulbricht and advised him on all aspects of Silk Road operations. Clark, arrested on Dec. 3, 2015 in Thailand, is pending extradition to the U. S. In announcing the charges, Preet Bharara, the U. S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, said Clark served as a trusted confidante to Ulbricht and advised him on how to maximize profits and use....