Appeals court upholds Ross Ulbricht’s life sentence for creating Silk Road

(credit: Aurich Lawson) A US federal appeals court has upheld (PDF) a life sentence for Ross Ulbricht. He was convicted in 2015 of being the Dread Pirate Roberts who ran the Silk Road website, the largest Internet black market at that time. The three-judge panel unanimously upheld the rulings on a variety of issues by US District Judge Kathleen […]