The
BBC has an
article about a dumb guy, doing hard time:
An American who helped run a successor to the Silk Road drug marketplace has been sentenced to eight years in jail. Brian Farrell admitted conspiring to distribute heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamine in March of 2016.
Silk Road 2.0 was shut down in 2015, following Operation Onymous raids that targeted almost four hundred suspected illicit marketplaces around the world. At the time, it was generating sales of about eight million dollars a month, and had over a hundred thousand users.
Ross Ulbricht, who set up the original Silk Road, was sentenced in May 2015 to life in prison on several charges, including distributing drugs.
Silk Road 2.0 was a copy of the original site, and allowed people to use bitcoins (photo) to anonymously buy and sell drugs and other illegal goods and services via the Tor dark web network.
Farrell, who operated online using the alias DoctorClu, had admitted his involvement with the site when prosecutors were searching his Washington home in 2015, court papers revealed.
Blake Benthall, arrested in 2014, denies creating the Silk Road 2.0 site.
Rico says that, when you move to the
Dark Side, you gotta expect this... (And shouldn't that be
Doctor Clueless?)
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