In the one of the two cases, filed in a Maryland district court, a criminal complaint against Ulbricht describes how an undercover agent gained Ulbricht’s trust after communicating with him through the Dread Pirate Roberts account Ulbricht is thought to have used and conducting a $27,000 cocaine deal through the Silk Road. The agent later allegedly received a message from the Dread Pirate Roberts asking if he’d be willing to arrange the beating of a Silk Road employee who Roberts said had scammed users of the site and taken their bitcoins, the cryptographic currency used on Silk Road. “I’d like him beat up, then forced to send the bitcoins he stole back. like sit him down at his computer and make him do it,” reads a message from the Roberts account, included in the complaint. In a followup message, however, prosecutors say that Ulbricht asked to “change the order to execute rather than torture,” fearing that because the employee had spent time in prison, he might act as an informant against the Silk Road rather than risk being charged himself. In the messages reproduced in the complaint, Ulbricht is said to have added that “he had never killed a man or had one killed before, but it is the right move in this case.”forbes/sites/andygreenberg/2013/10/02/feds-allege-silk-roads-boss-paid-for-murders-of-both-a-witness-and-a-blackmailer/
Posted on: Fri, 04 Oct 2013 23:33:57 +0000
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