Not convicted because it was a fed who convinced him the other guy was trying to kill him. There’s entrapment along the lines of “haha let’s kidnap the governor, as a prank” and then there’s “he’ll kill you if you don’t pay me to kill him first” entrapment.
I’m personally more concerned with all the pedo shit and slavery he allowed on his platform by design.
Edit: first point probably isn’t true, but it was thrown out with prejudice
There’s a lot of money and powerful people involved so it’s pretty hard to say what really happened, but what definitely did happen is questionable evidence that never should have been allowed in his trial was introduced.
He belongs to be in jail for deliberately aiding in human trafficking and CSA (and so you can see why Trump would pardon him). What isn’t clear, and was specifically thrown out with prejudice, is the supposed assassination plots.
He also paid to have someone assassinated*, who then just lied to him saying it was done
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/silk-road-drug-vendor-who-claimed-commit-murders-hire-silk-road-founder-ross-ulbricht
Page 19 under heading “2. Murders Commissioned by Dread Pirate Roberts”
*Allegedly. Not convicted, but also not exonerated.
Not convicted because it was a fed who convinced him the other guy was trying to kill him. There’s entrapment along the lines of “haha let’s kidnap the governor, as a prank” and then there’s “he’ll kill you if you don’t pay me to kill him first” entrapment.
I’m personally more concerned with all the pedo shit and slavery he allowed on his platform by design.
Edit: first point probably isn’t true, but it was thrown out with prejudice
I’m having trouble finding where that’s explained. With all I’ve seen, I have not seen anything mention that.
https://www.wired.com/2015/02/read-transcript-silk-roads-boss-ordering-5-assassinations/
Might have fallen for some misinfo myself because I can’t find anything about the physical threats, just the extortion.
Regardless, the state apparently didn’t even believe the logs themselves. Normally I’d call them too biased to link but since even the state agrees:
https://freeross.org/false-allegations/
There’s a lot of money and powerful people involved so it’s pretty hard to say what really happened, but what definitely did happen is questionable evidence that never should have been allowed in his trial was introduced.
He belongs to be in jail for deliberately aiding in human trafficking and CSA (and so you can see why Trump would pardon him). What isn’t clear, and was specifically thrown out with prejudice, is the supposed assassination plots.