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The founder of the Silk Road drug marketplace has been sentenced to life in prison without parole
Yahoo.com ^ | 5/29/2015 | Natasha Bertrand and Michael B Kelley

Posted on 05/30/2015 9:30:40 AM PDT by Beave Meister

The convicted mastermind behind the world's largest online narcotics emporium has been sentenced by a federal judge to two terms of life in prison and three lesser sentences, USA Today reports. The judge also ordered Ross Ulbricht, 31, to forfeit $184 million dollars. The website made over $187 million before it was shut down in 2013.

The government estimated that roughly $1.2 billion in illegal drug transactions took place on Silk Road.

The judge said it was a "demand expanding operation" and that what Ulbricht did was thoughtful, as opposed to just being an economic experiment. She added that he often referred to it as his life's work and a worldwide criminal enterprise.

"Silk Road was about creating demand and fulfilling demand," the judge said. "You don't fit the criminal profile" — noting that he was well educated — "but you are a criminal."

"I don't know that you feel a lot of remorse," the judge added. "I don't think you know that you hurt a lot of people."

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To: windcliff

He could get some Cup O’ Noodles and Slim Jim’s.


Its the least I could do....


21 posted on 05/30/2015 11:00:31 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Paulie

Saw these headlines yesterday, did not know what Silk Road was.


22 posted on 05/30/2015 11:42:23 AM PDT by CPT Clay
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To: Beave Meister

Government don’t like people cutting into their business.


23 posted on 05/30/2015 11:44:39 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Drew68

The guy threatened the ability of the State to extort money from everyone.

I think this is more about tax evasion and power than real harm to real people.

Of course, taxes of some sort are necessary. But It appears to me that the judge is more outraged at the affront to State Power, than he is concerned with “the little people”.


24 posted on 05/30/2015 12:06:14 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: Moonman62

While it can, how would you ever do the research in this shadowy underworld?

All the judge could see is a segment growing under HIS purview. Whether something else shrank was quite out of view.


25 posted on 05/30/2015 3:00:59 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: marktwain

A common situation between the police and drug runners is that confiscations happen from time to time and it is a kind of rough tax because the offenders never get prosecuted or only get slaps on the wrist.


26 posted on 05/30/2015 3:03:06 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Beave Meister

Silk Road...FIFA...Denny Hastert...anything to avoid going after the Clintons.


27 posted on 05/30/2015 3:09:45 PM PDT by mac_truck (Aide toi et dieu t aidera)
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To: marktwain

This is supposed to be about right and wrong, but green palm grease makes it easy to forget that.

The idea of a prohibition on substances rather than on behaviors is foreign to the Judeo-Christian background that raised America to such success and blessing in the past.

I’ve seen people play mighty violins from time to time over how addictions got out of hand in the late 19th century and following, but this was also a time when ecclesiastical ministry about the issue was weak. In the meantime forcing it all into the shadows out of the sunlight only let it grow to be worse that it was. We could wish that the 19th century addiction problems were all we had today.


28 posted on 05/30/2015 3:29:14 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Beave Meister

Bookmark


29 posted on 05/30/2015 5:38:43 PM PDT by dragnet2
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To: marktwain

What he said. The Feral Goberment sees this as MUCH worse than murder or baby raping. Can’t allow such a challenge to go unanswered.


30 posted on 05/30/2015 5:39:16 PM PDT by Rifleman
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To: dfwgator

That sums this up quite well.


31 posted on 05/30/2015 5:42:52 PM PDT by dragnet2
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To: lee martell
At first I had some sympathy for a young man being locked up w/o parole, then I read where he tried to have several people killed who may have interfered with his plans.

You need to ask yourself, if that's the case why in hell was he not convicted of attempted murder?

32 posted on 05/30/2015 6:23:42 PM PDT by dragnet2
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To: Beave Meister

Think of the billions in penalties ebay and paypal could face for the bootleg video, CD, and other intellectual properties that are publicly traded on their website.


33 posted on 05/30/2015 10:13:45 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Funny how Hollywood's 'No Nukes' crowd has been silent during Obama's Iranian nuclear negotiations.)
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To: dfwgator
Government don’t like people cutting into their business.

That's exactly what this is about. A bad guy who made the mistake of stepping on the turf of even worse guys.

34 posted on 06/01/2015 7:48:36 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves (Heteropatriarchal Capitalist)
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