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Re:Trends in the Silk Road 2.0 by vidarh on Monday September 29, 2014 @06:47PM (#8385782)
He's presumably referring to the contract killings Ross Ulbricht is alleged to have tried to arrange.
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Re:Trends in the Silk Road 2.0 by programmarchy on Monday September 29, 2014 @09:38PM (#8386345)
This charge was dropped.

In my opinion, it was a baseless charge in the first place, meant to poison the well against Ross.

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Re:Trends in the Silk Road 2.0 by mikeyouse on Monday September 29, 2014 @09:58PM (#8386397)
It wasn't dropped, I wish people would stop parroting that line. He was indicted in two separate jurisdictions, NY and Maryland. Maryland indicted him for 'Planned Violence' which includes one count of murder for hire. The NY charges are the ones that he's currently facing, the Maryland charges are still in the wings.

http://freeross.org/correction-of-our-report-on-the-indictme...

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Re:Trends in the Silk Road 2.0 by dmix on Monday September 29, 2014 @10:16PM (#8386448)
And he is innocent until proven guilty. So people should stick to that angle.
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