Cybersecurity
‘Dread Pirate’ Should Get More Than 20 Years, U.S. Says
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The man convicted of running the Silk Road online drug marketplace should spend more than 20 years in prison, said U.S. prosecutors who cited deaths from drugs bought on the site and evidence of five murder-for-hire plots.
Ross William Ulbricht, 31, was convicted in February of running Silk Road, where users spent $214 million in bitcoins to buy an array of illegal drugs, computer hacking tools and fake identification. Ulbricht, who used the online name “Dread Pirate Roberts,” faces as long as life in prison when he’s sentenced May 29.