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Silk Road 2 + Dread Pirate Roberts 2 + 1 Liverpudlian = over 5 years in prison

Silk Road 2 + Dread Pirate Roberts 2 + 1 Liverpudlian = over 5 years in prison

5 years ago
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https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/12/silk_road_2/

For years, it was assumed he had escaped the Feds. But on Friday at Liverpool Crown Court, 24-year-old university dropout Thomas White pleaded guilty to drug trafficking, money laundering and possessing child abuse images and was sentenced to 5 years and 4 months in prison.

White was in fact Dread Pirate Roberts 2, a pseudonym under which he set up dark-web commerce site Silk Road 2. The "2"s were deliberate and an attempt to pick up where the original Roberts – real name Ross Ulbricht – left off with his highly profitable but wildly illegal Silk Road website.