Ross Ulbricht, the convicted mastermind behind the Silk Road, was sentenced to life in prison without parole in a New York courtroom on Friday. During the 2.5 hour-long session, the court heard ...

Ross Ulbricht, creator of the underground website Silk Road, which let users anonymously buy and sell anything from drugs to hacking tutorials, was sentenced Friday to life in prison after he made ...

Silk Road employee Andrew Jones, who had established a 'secret handshake' with Ulbricht in 2012 to confirm his identity, did not believe that the late DPR was Ulbricht, either.

Ross Ulbricht Gets Life Sentence for Silk Road Conviction The sentence is a miscarriage of justice, and will likely harm drug users down the road. Brian Doherty | 5.29.2015 4:02 PM ...

Convicted Silk Road Mastermind Ross Ulbricht Wants A New Trial. ByKate Vinton, Former Staff. Mar 10, 2015, 10:23am EDT Apr 16, 2015, 12:21pm EDT. Share. Save. This article is more than 10 years old.

Five full months have passed since the defense team for Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht launched their appeal for a new trial.That 170-page argument represents Ulbricht’s last hope of escaping a ...

As I blogged, on day one of Ross Ulbricht's trial, for various charges connected to running the shut-down website Silk Road, used by many to exchange bitcoin for illegal items including drugs, his ...

Ulbricht supporters including the Silk Road founder’s mother, the Libertarian Party, and crypto activists lobbied Trump for years to pardon Ulbricht, and secured commitments from presidential ...

Silk Road Darknet mastermind Ross Ulbricht has lost his appeal of the life-behind-bars sentence he received for founding and running an online marketplace that made illegal drug purchases ...

This is an opinion editorial by Aaron Daniel, an appellate attorney and author of “The Bitcoin Brief,” and William D. Mueller, an appellate attorney with a nationwide practice.. Following a multi-week ...

The Silk Road trial verdict is in: Ross Ulbricht is the drug-trafficking criminal mastermind Dread Pirate Roberts, at least in the eyes of the Federal. Skip to content Gizmodo. Search .

Trump pardons Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht. President Donald Trump has signed a full pardon to Ross Ulbricht, founder of the anonymous marketplace website website Silk Road, he announced Tuesday.