Some libertarians who admire his political leanings and his fuck-you to the government by operating Silk Road and evading all of the prohibitions libertarians find objectionable.

I think there are a few different categories of people who support Ross Ulbricht: But just because he wasn't charged doesn't mean that people can't read all of the evidence and conclude that Ross did in fact pay lots of money to try to kill several people he thought were real. Ross was never charged for those hits because at the time of the investigation, the government didn't know the identities of the people Ross paid to have killed, and they didn't know the identity of the man Ross paid (all of whom turned out to be James Ellingson). Those five additional hits had nothing to do with Curtis Green or Carl Force or any of the usernames that Carl Force created. He paid a Canadian man named James Ellingson who was using several different accounts to scam Ross. In fact, this is the reason the charge for that crime was dropped in Baltimore.īut then Ross Ulbricht paid for several additional hits. One can make a legitimate argument that the Curtis Green hit was tainted because of the this corrupt agent's involvement. That agent also wound up being caught, convicted, and sentenced to a lengthy prison term. That agent was involved in the hit on Curtis Green that Ross paid for. The others were unknown to the government and he used one of them (French Maid) to sell information on the case to Ross Ulbricht. One of them (Nob) was an official undercover identity for the investigation. There was also a rogue DEA agent (Carl Force) who was quite a bit more involved. He was caught, convicted, and sentenced to a lengthy prison term. That's it as far as his involvement goes with the case. There was a rogue Secret Service agent (Shaun Bridges) who stole a bunch of bitcoins from Silk Road. The story is a desperate narrative pushed by the freeross crowd to get their hero sprung from prison.

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