Silk Road Creator Ross Ulbricht to Be Sentenced Today (Updated)
Posted by: Timothy Weaver on 05/29/2015 08:36 AM
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Ross Ulbricht will be sentence today for his conviction pertaining to his creating and running the website Silk Road.
More than 90 people, including his family and fellow inmates, penned letters to U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest pleading for a lenient sentence.
Ulbricht, 31, wrote: “As I see it, a life sentence is more similar in nature to a death sentence than it is to a sentence with a finite number of years. “Both condemn you to die in prison, a life sentence just takes longer. If I do make it out of prison, decades from now, I won't be the same man, and the world won't be the same place.”
His letter also included his “terrible mistake” in creating the site.
The procecution also wrote to the judge and urged her to go beyond the minimum 20 year sentence to reflect the “seriousness of the offense, to promote respect for the law and to afford adequate deterrence to criminal conduct.”
Ulbricht's sentencing is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. in a Manhattan federal courtroom.
We will update the story when the sentence is announced.
Update - According to the Department of Justice press release from today, Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ROSS ULBRICHT, a/k/a “Dread Pirate Roberts,” was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to life in prison in connection with his operation and ownership of Silk Road, a hidden website designed to enable its users to buy and sell illegal drugs and other unlawful goods and services anonymously and beyond the reach of law enforcement between January 2011 and October 2013. ULBRICHT was found guilty of each of the seven charges he faced on February 5, 2015, following a four-week jury trial. U.S. District Judge Katherine B. Forrest imposed today’s sentence.
Source: SCMagazine
More than 90 people, including his family and fellow inmates, penned letters to U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest pleading for a lenient sentence.Ulbricht, 31, wrote: “As I see it, a life sentence is more similar in nature to a death sentence than it is to a sentence with a finite number of years. “Both condemn you to die in prison, a life sentence just takes longer. If I do make it out of prison, decades from now, I won't be the same man, and the world won't be the same place.”
His letter also included his “terrible mistake” in creating the site.
The procecution also wrote to the judge and urged her to go beyond the minimum 20 year sentence to reflect the “seriousness of the offense, to promote respect for the law and to afford adequate deterrence to criminal conduct.”
Ulbricht's sentencing is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. in a Manhattan federal courtroom.
We will update the story when the sentence is announced.
Update - According to the Department of Justice press release from today, Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ROSS ULBRICHT, a/k/a “Dread Pirate Roberts,” was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to life in prison in connection with his operation and ownership of Silk Road, a hidden website designed to enable its users to buy and sell illegal drugs and other unlawful goods and services anonymously and beyond the reach of law enforcement between January 2011 and October 2013. ULBRICHT was found guilty of each of the seven charges he faced on February 5, 2015, following a four-week jury trial. U.S. District Judge Katherine B. Forrest imposed today’s sentence.
Source: SCMagazine
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