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The guy who ran "The Farmer's Market" AKA Adam's Flowers who was pre Silk Road and busted during Operation Adam Bomb was only given 10yrs for hustling MDMA/Acid/weed, and ran an impressive smuggling operation where he had US resellers pick up ocean freight shipments, and his plea has him serving time in a Netherlands prison.

The difference is he didn't make his black market political, which unfortunately Ross did. He also didn't try to kill anybody which although thrown out was still referenced by the sentencing judge. Still no word on what happened to the guy who was running SR 2.0 who worked for SpaceX and was busted.

I remember people peddling drugs on MindVox forums when Lord Digital ran it back in the day none of this is new except for Ulbricht trying to market his biz as a revolution. Online drug sales will continue regardless of this sentence.

>>pakled+(OP)
No part of the allegation that Ulbricht commissioned a murder appears to have been "thrown out"; that accusation was a formal predicate (the second listed "overt act") of the conspiracy charge for which he was convicted.

Can someone help me understand why people keep suggesting that this murder-for-hire allegation was dropped? That does not at all seem to be the case.

>>tptace+a1
It's an inconvenient talking point for people who want to hold Ulbricht up as some type of hero.

Painting over it is their only option.

>>tptace+a1
I didn't read the new indictment, I assumed from articles they dropped all those charges http://www.dailydot.com/crime/silk-road-murder-charges-ross-...

http://money.cnn.com/2015/05/29/technology/silk-road-ross-ul... "Prosecutors had charged Ulbricht with commissioning six murders-for-hire but those charges were dropped"

The overt act is there in the new indictment they changed after dropping the 6 murder for hire charges, guess it's my fault for trusting journalists who said nothing about it http://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/usao-sdny/legacy/...

>>tptace+a1
Why are you riding this belief so hard? It's like a one man fan group trying desperately to make an untruth truth.

Was he convicted of this charge you speak of? No. And who really cares what the legal system decides, it is an utter farce.

>>shit_p+x4
Yes, he was convicted of the Narcotics Conspiracy count in which the murder-for-hire scheme was one of the several charged over acts.

>>pakled+t3
So far as I can see, he was never formally charged with murder, making the claim that those charges were "dropped" a little odd.

>>shit_p+x4
Yes, he was convicted on all counts, and murder-for-hire was part of count one.

So why are you convinced he wasn't convicted of this charge?