Tuesday 10 February 2015

The hitman scam: Dread Pirate Roberts’ bizarre murder-for-hire attempts

The hitman scam: Dread Pirate Roberts’ bizarre murder-for-hire attempts


The most disturbing part of the Dread Pirate Roberts (DPR) story is also the strangest: how the boss of the Silk Road drugs marketplace attempted to arrange not one but six murders-for-hire. No murders actually took place. The first "hit" was purchased from an undercover DEA agent and was meant to take out a former Silk Road staffer; it has been charged in Maryland. But the story of the other five came out at the recent New York City trial of Ross Ulbricht, accused...

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