I listened to the casefile podcast about silk road recently. There were three alphabet agencies working nonstop to get this guy, one of them was skimming money, another agent convinced UIbricht that he was in danger due to the employees they'd already flipped and that he should have them killed (If Ross indeed did that.) I don't like drugs to but to say gangbangers shooting everyone but their target in the Bronx is worse than people sending small packages of drugs to each other is insane. Also the government was lucky enough to recover around 5 billion worth of Ross' bitcoin that he won't get back.
I listened to the casefile podcast about silk road recently. There were three alphabet agencies working nonstop to get this guy, one of them was skimming money, another agent convinced UIbricht that he was in danger due to the employees they'd already flipped and that he should have them killed (If Ross indeed did that.) I don't like drugs to but to say gangbangers shooting everyone but their target in the Bronx is worse than people sending small packages of drugs to each other is insane. Also the government was lucky enough to recover around 5 billion worth of Ross' bitcoin that he won't get back.
Now that he's been pardoned, it basically means that the courts were wrong to convict him.
I'd like to see him sue for the value of that Bitcoin now. That would be wild!