Silk Road Founder sentenced to life to prison

[InRareForm]

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/05/29/410580782/silk-road-founder-ross-ulbricht-sentenced-to-life-in-prison

[CosmicCowboy]

seems kind of overkill.

[InRareForm]

20-25 years seemed like a more fitting sentence.

[CosmicCowboy]

more like 10 with a 10 million dollar fine. let him do 5 with good behavior. He didn't steal from anyone and just created a website the Feds didn't like.

[InRareForm]

It's like when they have the warning labels if you copy DVD's 25 year sentence if you pirate stuff. Excessive.

[boutons_deux]

HSBC laundered many $100Ms for drug cartels, everybody too big to jail, HSBC keeps in USA banking license, pays handslap fee, no admission of guilt.

[Spurminator]

Ridiculous. And extremely petty bringing parents of dead dope fiends in to testify.

[TeyshaBlue]

The murder for hire posts and contracts warrant this, tbh.

[Splits]

HSBC laundered many $100Ms for drug cartels, everybody too big to jail, HSBC keeps in USA banking license, pays handslap fee, no admission of guilt.

[ElNono]

The murder for hire posts and contracts warrant this, tbh.

He wasn't tried for that though... the murder for hire is a different case, IIRC

That said, it was somewhat expected as the Feds are still having a hard time tracking people like him down and stores like him have been popping up left and right, so it's the 'good ole' send a message sentence...

[spursncowboys]

The murder for hire posts and contracts warrant this, tbh.
Child porn, slavery, as well.

[boutons_deux]

The murder for hire posts and contracts warrant this, tbh.

Drug cartels have murdered 1000s, HSBC was (and probably still is) an accomplice

[TeyshaBlue]

smh

[Wild Cobra]

He wasn't tried for that though... the murder for hire is a different case, IIRC

That said, it was somewhat expected as the Feds are still having a hard time tracking people like him down and stores like him have been popping up left and right, so it's the 'good ole' send a message sentence...

I agree.

The sentencing does seem harsh, but it is understandable from that point of view.

[hater]

Just police state warning the populace. If you dont behave like another one of our cows you get the horns.

[Blake]

I agree.

The sentencing does seem harsh, but it is understandable from that point of view.

But why give him a life sentence when he'll be of no further use to society when we can just execute him instead, amirite?

[Winehole23]

to protect and participate:


A former Secret Service special agent yesterday pleaded guilty to diverting $800,000 worth of bitcoins (https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/03/31/federal-agents-charged-over-alleged-silk-road-bitcoin-theft/) into his own account during an investigation into online black market site Silk Road.

Appearing in a San Francisco federal court, Shaun Bridges also admitted money laundering and obstruction of justice charges.


Computer forensics expert Bridges belonged to the Baltimore Silk Road task force, a group formed to track down Ross Ulbricht, the mastermind behind the online drug bazaar.
As part of that operation, the site's administrator - Curtis Green - was arrested in January 2013.


Using Green's credentials, Bridges logged into the back end of the Silk Road site and began locking drug dealers out of their accounts, swiping 20,000 of their bitcoins along the way - an act that would later lead Ulbricht to hire a contract killer to eliminate Green, who he believed was responsible for the theft.


Bridges then diverted the virtual currency - worth around $350,000 at the time - into an account under his control at the now-defunct Mt. Gox (https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2014/03/06/where-have-all-the-bitcoins-gone/).


At some point between March and May 2013, Bridges moved the money - by then worth around $820,000 - into a Fidelity account called Quantum International Investments LLC.


Bridges' plea agreement brought to light how he obstructed the investigation of Ulbricht and Silk Road through his takeover of Green's administrator account. He also impeded investigations into his own wrongdoing by making several false or misleading statements. The court also heard how Bridges had encouraged another government employee to lie on his behalf.

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/09/01/secret-service-agent-pleads-guilty-to-stealing-silk-road-bitcoins/?utm_source=Naked+Security+-+Sophos+List&utm_medium=email&utm_content=rss2&utm_campaign=c5ee7e257d-naked%252Bsecurity&utm_term=0_31623bb782-c5ee7e257d-454998217

[boutons_deux]

to protect and participate:

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/09/01/secret-service-agent-pleads-guilty-to-stealing-silk-road-bitcoins/?utm_source=Naked+Security+-+Sophos+List&utm_medium=email&utm_content=rss2&utm_campaign=c5ee7e257d-naked%252Bsecurity&utm_term=0_31623bb782-c5ee7e257d-454998217

wow

[FuzzyLumpkins]

What do you expect when they handle their own oversight?

[Clipper Nation]

wow
BigGov and BigLib strikes again.

[Winehole23]

Trump said to be weighing a pardon for Ross Ulbricht

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[Wes Welker]

Affluent white kid who becomes a drug kingpin is a libertarian hero, but darkie crack dealer who gives koriwhat his daily fix is an irredeemable thug.

[Spurtacular]

China wasn't fucking around on this.

[Winehole23]

China wasn't fucking around on this.CCP pulling DJT's strings now?

[Chucho]

Silk Road was a fucking gyp. Not that I never got what I ordered, it was always just mediocre.