Ross Ulbricht (Dread Pirate Roberts)
From wikipedia:
Ross William Ulbricht (born March 27, 1984) is a former darknet market operator, best known for being convicted of creating and running the Silk Road website until his arrest. He was known under the pseudonym “Dread Pirate Roberts”.
Ulbricht was convicted of money laundering, computer hacking, conspiracy to traffic fraudulent identity documents, and conspiracy to traffic narcotics in February 2015. He is currently serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld the conviction and sentence in 2017.
Links
- The Rise and Fall of the Silk Road’s page on this site
- Ross Ulbricht on Wikipedia
- Silk Road (marketplace) on Wikipedia
- @Free_Ross on Twitter (Run by his mother, Lynn Ulbricht)
- FreeRoss.org
- 2013 - Ulbricht’s Personal Log
- 29-Apr-2013 Forbes Magazine - Collected Quotations Of The Dread Pirate Roberts, Founder Of Underground Drug Site Silk Road And Radical Libertarian by Andy Greenberg
- 30-Mar-2015 Wired Magazine - DEA Agent Charged With Acting as a Paid Mole for Silk Road by Andy Greenberg
- April 2015 Wired Magazine - The Untold Story of Silk Road, Part 1 - The Rise of Silk Road by Joshuah Bearman
- May 2015 Wired Magazine - The Untold Story of Silk Road, Part 2 - The Fall by Joshuah Bearman
- 08-Aug-2015 Free Ross on Youtube - Cody Wilson: “Ross Ulbricht is paying for being ethical” #FreeRoss” with Cody Wilson
- 12-Jan-2016 Wired Magazine - In Silk Road Appeal, Ross Ulbricht’s Defense Focuses on Corrupt Feds by Andy Greenberg
- 29-Nov-2016 Wired Magazine - Ross Ulbricht’s Lawyers Say They’ve Found Another Corrupt Agent in Silk Road Case by Andy Greenberg
- 09-May-2017 The Crypto Show on Youtube - Lyn Ulbricht & Cody Wilson on American Kingpin a hit piece littered with lies with Cody Wilson
- 31-May-2017 Wired Magazine - Silk Road Creator Ross Ulbricht Loses His Life Sentence Appeal by Andy Greenberg
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