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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.

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  1. Grab the popcorn by phantomfive · · Score: 5, Insightful

    At this point, I don't care who the real 'dread pirate Roberts' is. I'm here for the show, and the show just got good.

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    "First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
    1. Re:Grab the popcorn by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

      What is entertaining is that this agent was actually after Karpeles in 2012 and 2013 as the DPR, complete with prepping search warrants on flimsy and thin theories and asking other agents in separate operations focused on Karpeles not to spook him and ruin his own investigation and reading them the riot act when they did spook him. So really he's just using the Agent's own history to cast doubt.

    2. Re:Grab the popcorn by aaron4801 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Karpeles kidnapped Ulbricht and made him work on the site. Every evening..."Good night, Ross. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning." Three years he said that. "Good night, Ross. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning." Eventually he wanted to retire. So he took Ross to his cabin and told his secret: "I am not the Dread Pirate Roberts," he said. "My name is Mark. I inherited this site from the previous Dread Pirate Roberts, just as you will inherit it from me."

  2. Trolling by Forgefather · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's official. Ross Ulbricht is trolling the government.

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    "There are lies, there are damn lies, and there are statistics"
  3. "Your Honor, I have something to confess..." by halivar · · Score: 5, Funny

    "I am not left-handed."

  4. Karpeles: "I'm not the real Dread Pirate Roberts" by sirwired · · Score: 5, Funny

    Karpeles: "I'm not the real Dread Pirate Roberts either. His name was Cummerbund, and he's been living like a king in Patagonia for 20 years."