Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht guilty of running vast online drugs trade
- 9 years ago
The suspected mastermind of the underground website Silk Road has been convicted of creating a multi-million dollar online marketplace for illegal drugs.
A federal jury in New York took under a day to find Ross Ulbricht, 30, guilty on all seven counts following investigations into use of the digital currency bitcoin to commit crimes.
His mother claimed the defence had been hindered in arguing he had been framed.
“I think it was unfair, I think it was not a level playing field. We didn’t get to, three of our witnesses did not get to testify. A lot of the evidence, a big bulk of evidence, was not allowed to be presented. And evidence that was presented was stricken, and so the whole picture wasn’t presented,” Lyn Ulbricht said afterwards.
Prosecutors argued Ulbricht used the pseudonym Dread Pirate Roberts to broker deals promising anonymity – but law enforcers exposed him.
“I think what it does show is that the government has the ability to infiltrate and prosecute hackers and
A federal jury in New York took under a day to find Ross Ulbricht, 30, guilty on all seven counts following investigations into use of the digital currency bitcoin to commit crimes.
His mother claimed the defence had been hindered in arguing he had been framed.
“I think it was unfair, I think it was not a level playing field. We didn’t get to, three of our witnesses did not get to testify. A lot of the evidence, a big bulk of evidence, was not allowed to be presented. And evidence that was presented was stricken, and so the whole picture wasn’t presented,” Lyn Ulbricht said afterwards.
Prosecutors argued Ulbricht used the pseudonym Dread Pirate Roberts to broker deals promising anonymity – but law enforcers exposed him.
“I think what it does show is that the government has the ability to infiltrate and prosecute hackers and