Silk Road boss paid $80k for snitch’s murder
Not really tech news but interesting because as part of this take down the feds took control of a bunch of bitcoins worth $3.6Million. I guess selling drugs online was rather profitable.
On February 4, Dread Pirate Roberts allegedly transferred $40,000 into a bank account controlled by the undercover agent. On March 1, Dread Pirate Roberts had the remainder deposited into the account after he received a staged photo that purported to depict the body of the employee who had died of asphyxiation and heart rupture after being tortured.
Kinda sad really, both for the Bitcoin market and the drug underground. Just remember its always the "suitemate" or so I was told by an undisclosed female student during my college days. As the story goes my suitemate always needed to have people around so he threw parties in his dorm room which usually involved drinking. Shortly after he found a dealer and eventually got arrested for smoking pot on campus.
Shortly after getting out on bail he threw another small party and invited over a few ladies from the drom complex who proceeded to then try to pin his getting busted on me. Needless to say tensions were high after that. My saving grace? I wasn't even in my room during the party having been scheduled for my weekly workstudy session..
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