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Silk Road Trial Defense: Mt. Gox CEO Was the Real Dread Pirate Roberts

Posted by timothy on from the rabbit-out-of-hat dept.

rossgneumann writes The defense team for Ross Ulbricht, the 30-year-old man accused of running the online black market Silk Road under the pseudonym Dread Pirate Roberts, just dropped an unexpected new theory: Mark Karpeles, the CEO of failed Bitcoin company Mt. Gox, is the real Dread Pirate Roberts. "We have the name of the real mastermind and it's not Ulbricht," Joshua Dratel, Ulbricht's lawyer, said in court today. He plans to argue that Karpeles framed Ulbricht.

3 of 119 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Trolling by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    ...and I'm loving every minute of it. Just for that he should be let off.

  2. Re:FUD by GameboyRMH · · Score: 3, Informative

    Do you also support contract killings? Because he ordered hits on a few people.

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    "When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
  3. Hans Reiser did nothing wrong. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

    Hans Reiser did nothing wrong.
    Nina was an adulteress and the Old Testament commands Reiser to kill her. Kill her he did.

    It also allows marrying young girls (female children), even in cases of rape.

    It says man is the master of the woman.