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Silk Road internet underground drug lord gets life sentence because he kept a diary - pRICE cUBE - 05-30-2015
He didn't acutely write this but maybe he wrote something similar. Dear Diary: I hope keeping record of illegal activities doesn't come back to bite me some day. Oh, and I think Katie next door has a crush on me. Ross Ulbricht
http://gawker.com/silk-road-drug-mastermind-ross-ulbricht-sentenced-to-li-1707785064
Mr. Ulbricht, 31, was sentenced by the judge, Katherine B. Forrest, for his role as what prosecutors described as “the kingpin of a worldwide digital drug-trafficking enterprise.”
He also faced a mandatory minimum 20-year sentence on one of the counts for which he was convicted.
Re: Silk Road internet underground drug lord gets life sentence because he kept a diary - Filliam H. Muffman - 05-30-2015
Was his paying a hitman to kill people also in the diary?
Re: Silk Road internet underground drug lord gets life sentence because he kept a diary - Speedy - 05-30-2015
And in the side column links accompanying the gawker story, a Leo Laporte exposé:
http://gawker.com/the-king-of-tech-talk-showed-everyone-a-his-naked-di-1707162572
Re: Silk Road internet underground drug lord gets life sentence because he kept a diary - Racer X - 05-30-2015
No, he got a life sentance for repeatedly breaking the law, and extensively assisting others to do so as well.
Re: Silk Road internet underground drug lord gets life sentence because he kept a diary - max - 05-30-2015
No, he got the book thrown at him for creating a venue outside the law.
Obviously we cannot have that, everybody needs to be in the system....
Re: Silk Road internet underground drug lord gets life sentence because he kept a diary - colonel panic - 05-31-2015
But Sepp Blatter got reelected and will serve no jail time, so that even things out.
Re: Silk Road internet underground drug lord gets life sentence because he kept a diary - pRICE cUBE - 05-31-2015
max wrote:
No, he got the book thrown at him for creating a venue outside the law.
Obviously we cannot have that, everybody needs to be in the system....
Yes, my understanding is that he kept a diary of his law breaking ways used as evidence against him.
Re: Silk Road internet underground drug lord gets life sentence because he kept a diary - Racer X - 05-31-2015
Well, originally PayPal was working outside the law. Acting like a bank, but not being a bank. They got called on it, and just purchased a bank.
Re: Silk Road internet underground drug lord gets life sentence because he kept a diary - Will Collier - 05-31-2015
Racer X wrote:
Well, originally PayPal was working outside the law. Acting like a bank, but not being a bank. They got called on it, and just purchased a bank.
As noted above, the whole hiring-a-hitman thing tends to mitigate the "it's just PayPal for Bitcoin" defense.