Other key players of Silk Road were also captured and jailed, including two law-enforcement agents assigned to help capture Ulbricht.Īlthough Bilton didn't interview Ulbricht for the book, he used the enormous catalog of information on the case and interviews with other key sources to get inside Ulbricht's head. The book reads like a novel, and it describes how a young, smart, kind-hearted, and well-educated Ulbricht became the Dread Pirate Roberts, the code name of the man who ran the website, and how multiple law-enforcement agencies chased him down. In May 2015, 31-year-old Ulbricht was sentenced to life in prison without parole after being convicted of seven felonies, including trafficking drugs on the internet, narcotics-trafficking conspiracy, running a continuing criminal enterprise, computer hacking, and money laundering.Īlthough he also was accused of trying to commission and pay for more than one murder, the charge was dropped from the indictment, and prosecutors and attorneys have said they never happened. I just finished reading Nick Bilton's " American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road," which documents the well-known saga of Ross Ulbricht, aka "Dread Pirate Roberts," and Silk Road, the black-market website that sold illegal drugs and other dangerous items. Ross Ulbricht, the founder of Silk Road, who was sentenced to life in prison on May 29, 2015. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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