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>>Ozarki+(OP)
Wasn’t he in jail for hiring a contract killer?

I’m all for the freeing him of his crimes when it comes to his crypto anarchic philosophy. But I find it hard to pardon someone for contract killing essentially. Also I’m not an apologist for the FBIs handling of this case either.

>>yuppie+01
I haven't reviewed the info for a while but it was pretty clearly entrapment as I recall.

>>l0ng1n+x1
Didn't Ulbricht actually run the Silk Road? Did someone from the FBI persuade Ulbricht to do it?

>>mmooss+Ee
I think they're talking about just the murder-for-hire. It may have just been undercover agents the whole time and no murders actually occurred.

>>jxi+1n
Attempting to hire a hitman who turns out to be an FBI agent is still a crime, and likely not entrapment in the legal sense.

>>verteu+BB
It was entrapment because federal agents posing as crime bosses were threatening Ross that if he didn't hire the hitman there would be serious consequences. He was manipulated and forced into the position he was in.

>>px43+JJ
What about when his (non-FBI, now-convicted) right-hand-man Roger Thomas Clark convinced him to hire someone for murder?

Surely that can't be entrapment.

"Clark didn't comment on that murder-for-hire conversation—which he at one point claimed had been fabricated by Ulbricht but later conceded was real"

https://www.wired.com/story/silk-road-variety-jones-sentenci...