So what you’re saying is, Trump loves child exploitation and drug trafficking.
Amazing outcome
President of a civilized country should not have this power.
Key word here is civilized.
Fuck it. I’m gonna rob a bank, give Trump half, and get pardoned.
now normally a german surname running a dark web website would be a massive red flag, but do the Ulbricht’s get a pass because of Walter?
Keep in mind that a big part of why Ulbricht was in jail was paying to have multiple people murdered
False. Those charges were all dismissed. Dont spread misinformation.
He paid money to have people killed in order to protect his profits
The fact that he wasn’t convicted of it doesn’t mean it didn’t happen
Ok, you’ve got me on the wording. He wasn’t in jail because he paid for hits, but my point being no matter your thoughts on drug policy, Ross should be in prison
Correct me if I’m wrong: IIRC the feds sent back mock pictures to ‘confirm’ the victims were killed, so I don’t know if anyone was assassinated in reality but, as you said, Ulbricht payed to have them murdered.
You’re correct. They were all scams, including one by the US government
That doesn’t mean they’re scams. Ross really did earnestly pay to get people killed, he just got caught in a honey trap trying to do so and that’s a good thing
I have seen this repeated multiple times on Lemmy. When I look this up, I find:
- Dismissal with prejudice: https://freeross.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Doc_14_Dismissal_Indictment_7-26-2018.pdf
- The DEA agent responsible for this entrapment sentenced to prison for corruption: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-dea-agent-sentenced-extortion-money-laundering-and-obstruction-related-silk-road
- The target of the alleged crime (Curtis Green) advocating for Ross and claiming that his own messages were altered: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0w8aOK1NRE
- The fact that the payments to the hitmen were made via bank wire transfer: https://imgur.com/why-would-dpr-send-easily-tracked-80k-wire-transfer-hit-when-he-did-all-other-business-bitcoin-PEozMNM
So, the charges are dismissed with prejudice, the DEA agent imprisoned for corruption, the alleged victim testifies in his favor. What makes the other narrative compelling? I see people citing the court document in which the claims were made… But what is the value of that document if the result was a dismissal with prejudice? Shouldn’t that support the innocence narrative?
I am genuinely curious. I’m not necessarily advocating his innocence, I want to understand what other people know that makes them so convinced that he is guilty of this.
Just to note, charges dismissed with prejudice means that the prosecution can’t correct the errors and re-file the case. It’s usually done when the judge has pretty compelling evidence that the charges are garbage, or there’s really egregious prosecutorial misconduct.
Did you just restate exactly what the person above you already said?
I was clarifying and adding more details, and also restating to make it clear I wasn’t disagreeing at all or trivializing it.
Was it? It wasn’t mentioned in the article and I don’t think I’ve ever heard that before.
“Ulbricht was found guilty of charges including conspiracy to commit drug trafficking, money laundering and computer hacking.”
I’ve never heard about this.
Can you provide a source?
Google dude. It was all over the news back when it was new news.
Google didn’t turn up anything conclusive.
Are you sure you’re not misremembering this or making it up? It should be pretty easy for you to provide a source if it’s true.
Don’t be fooled - Trump cut a deal with the Libertarian Party promising he would do this if he won the election. It seems that yet again, he can conceive of no morality greater than transactionalism.
Compromising with voters? What a violation of politician ethics. Democrats would never to that
But he won the election, why does he have to keep his word to the libertarian party? What are they gonna do if he doesn’t follow through?
Fooled by what?
Well now I’m wondering who this could fool and how…
How does that fool people? It sounds like you’re scared that some people may consider his pardon to be semi-good & it bothers you that he might be capable of some good too?
Legend. Huge congrats to Ross and his family for this outcome. Here’s to many more DNMs coming up in the future!
I have to say… even with the Elon influence, I didn’t see that one coming. Ulbricht stole capital from the rich and enabled stuff including human trafficking considered evil by the religious right. But I guess he also stuck it to The Man, for which he is being rewarded.
Human trafficking was not allowed. Not even CCs were allowed. Silk road didn’t let you sell anything that harmed others.
Also, how did Ulbricht steal from the rich?!?
He’s also partially responsible for why cryptocurrency has any worth at all.
Human trafficking is considered evil by everyone unless you’re a pedo/psychopath
now we know why he was pardoned
Have any other good pardons come through?
Leonard Peltier is free
Probably one of the best pardons to come out of Biden, TBH.
