Ross Ulbricht, the young “California geek” who became the internet’s most notorious drug lord and began a still-raging debate over online privacy and liberty, will spend the rest of his life in prison.
Two former federal agents who worked on the 2013 bust of underground drug market Silk Road were charged with multiple felonies this week alleging that the pair used the operation for their own gain, blackmailing defendants and stealing more than $1.5 million worth of bitcoin under the cover of darknet.
Today, a jury found Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht guilty of seven charges related to his alleged role in running the deep-web bazaar for drugs and other contraband. Ulbricht admitted in court to creating the site, but insisted that he sold it to another operator and left the business before the FBI arrested him in…
The most lurid detail in the trial of alleged Silk Road boss Ross Ulbricht was discussed in court yesterday, when an attorney read from emails that prosecutors claim show Ulbricht ordering hits on five people from a member of the Hell's Angels. Wired published a transcript of those emails in full—and the exchange…
The trial of Ross Ulbricht—the man the federal government says was behind The Silk Road—has been a kind of legal coming-out party for the darker corners of the internet. Jurors have had to acquaint themselves with things like the anonymizing browser Tor, and Ulbricht's surprise defense involved the disgraced…
Since his arrest in 2013, Ross Ulbricht has remained the chief suspect behind the Silk Road, a sweeping and sophisticated online drug market. But today in court, his defense dropped a shocker: they claimed the market's actual kingpin was Mark Karpeles, who is infamous for running the world's biggest bitcoin…
A new Grand Jury indictment for Ross Ulbricht, the alleged founder of Silk Road, includes one count each for narcotics conspiracy, running a criminal enterprise, conspiracy to commit computer hacking, as well as money laundering, but nothing about murder-for-hire.
Ross Ulbricht, the 30-year-old California geek accused of running the massive underground drug market Silk Road, was logged into Silk Road's customer support control panel the moment he was arrested in a San Francisco public library, according to new court documents filed federal prosecutors. And there are the…
29-year-old Ross Ulbricht, the alleged mastermind of the underground drug market Silk Road, did not leave much of an impression on his former housemates, according to a new report from Forbes. Until he turned up on the front page of the San Francisco Examiner, accused of running a multi-million dollar drug bazaar for…
The takedown of the underground drug market Silk Road was apparently just the beginning. Since then, authorities have arrested Silk Road customers and dealers in Seattle, the UK, and Sweden—and promise more to come.
