Federal prosecutors in Manhattan are seeking a lengthy prison sentence for the creator of Silk Road , a once-thriving website that allowed users to anonymously buy and sell heroin, cocaine, LSD and other drugs online until it was shut down by the authorities in 2013.
The government, in a sentencing memo filed on Tuesday in Federal District Court, depicted the defendant, Ross W. Ulbricht, as a digital drug kingpin who ran an “online black market […]
