Ross Ulbricht Sues Federal Government, Alleges Religious Rights Are Being Vio...
Ross Ulbricht, founder of Bitcoin darknet marketplace Silk Road, is suing over the right to communicate with his father.Ross Ulbricht, the convicted founder of massive darknet marketplace Silk Road, filed a federal lawsuit last week accusing the Federal Bureau of Prisons of “substantially burdening his exercise of religion.” Ulbricht is serving consecutive life sentences at USP Tucson in Arizona on seven charges including money laundering, computer hacking and conspiracy to traffic narcotics.Silk Road ran on the Tor network, a program that routes online traffic through intermediary....
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Soon to be on trial, alleged Silk Road operator Ross Ulbricht is dealing with yet another rejection when it comes to his complex case. Most recently, Ulbricht - who federal officials suggest was known as "Dread Pirate Roberts" on the illicit Silk Road website - and his legal counsel suggested that the FBI's means of investigating Ulbricht was illegal and a breach of privacy rights, given the Bureau allegedly hacked his servers without proper warrants. Judge Katherine Forrest wasn't exactly having the defense, bringing up the point that Ulbricht hasn't admitted to own the servers. As such,....
Nearly eight months after being sentenced to life in prison for his role in the operation of the now-defunct online black market Silk Road, Ross Ulbricht is seeking a new trial. In a new filing submitted to the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, Ulbricht's defense – which declared its intent to appeal in June – argued that the court hid key evidence, particularly the actions of federal agents Carl Mark Force IV and Shaun Bridges amid the US government's investigation of the Silk Road. The defense also questioned the legality of some of the searches and seizures conducted during....
A year on from the arrest of Silk Road's alleged founder, CoinDesk takes a look at the life of Lyn Ulbricht, mother of accused Silk Road leader Ross Ulbricht. For Lyn Ulbricht, mother of alleged Silk Road ringleader Ross William Ulbricht, it's been an intense year. It's 1st October 2014, 365 days after her son was taken into custody by federal agents at a San Francisco public library, brought to prison and paraded on magazines. To Lyn, the day is the dawn of a different lifetime. One year later, Lyn is upbeat, sounding energetic at times, exhausted at others, prone to long sighs though....
As you may be aware, the case of US Government versus Ross Ulbricht, the alleged owner and operator of the Silk Road market, which for years was a convenient way to use Bitcoin to purchase illegal drugs, stolen or falsified ID cards, and other goods which might be hard to obtain otherwise, has brought a lot of negativity to the cryptocurrency community, with the Atlantic recently publishing a piece entitled “Without Drugs, What’s the Point of Bitcoin?” Interested parties may want a breakdown of the government’s case. This will help determine the viability of the case and how it’s....