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Don’t ask Ross Ulbricht. You’ll have to ask the DEA agents who embezzled money while making unsubstantiated accusations of murder for hire. https://arstechnica.
by woah 8y ago
Don’t ask Ross Ulbricht. You’ll have to ask the DEA agents who embezzled money while making unsubstantiated accusations of murder for hire. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/08/stealing-bitcoins-with-badges-how-silk-roads-dirty-cops-got-caught/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/08/stealing-bitcoin...
- wmf 8y agoAnd those DEA agents are also in prison.
- vkou 8y agoThe accusations were quite substantiated, his defense was about as laughable as 'my baby brother did it'.
- jamoes 8y agoUlbricht never presented a defense for the murder-for-hire charge because the charge was dropped and never went to trial. Ulbricht has been sentenced to double-life in prison for all non-violent charges.
- mikeyouse 8y agoThis isn't right - his attempted hits directly led to a longer prison sentence and he could have refuted the factual allegations if he had a defense for them. See page 3/4 and then page 27: https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1391926/gov-uscourts-nysd-422824-142-0.pdf