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Trump pardons Silk Road dark web market creator Ross Ulbricht (www.bbc.com)

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[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 16 points 1 month ago (5 children)

False. Those charges were all dismissed. Dont spread misinformation.

[–] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (3 children)

He paid money to have people killed in order to protect his profits

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/silk-road-drug-vendor-who-claimed-commit-murders-hire-silk-road-founder-ross-ulbricht

The fact that he wasn't convicted of it doesn't mean it didn't happen

[–] Glitterbomb@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Speaking of convicted, pretty sure at least two of the FBI agents assigned to investigate him WERE convicted and sent to jail for personally stealing funds from silk road during the investigation. The whole thing was mishandled from the beginning and the people he 'ordered to kill' weren't even real people, they were fake identities created by the same FBI agents that were posing as the hitmen and mishandling evidence. Reeks of entrapment.

[–] ghost_of_faso3@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 month ago

As always violence is a result of fed involvement, remove them from the picture and everything is fine.

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