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Irish Court Orders Alleged Silk Road Admin To Be Extradited To US (arstechnica.com)

Posted by msmash on from the justice-league dept.

An anonymous reader writes: A 27-year-old Irishman who American prosecutors believe was a top administrator on Silk Road named "Libertas" has been approved for extradition to the United States. According to the Irish Times, a High Court judge ordered Gary Davis to be handed over to American authorities on Friday. In December 2013, federal prosecutors in New York unveiled charges against Davis and two other Silk Road staffers, Andrew Michael Jones ("Inigo") and Peter Phillip Nash ("Samesamebutdifferent"). They were all charged with narcotics trafficking conspiracy, computer hacking conspiracy, and money laundering conspiracy. After a few years of operation, Silk Road itself was shuttered when its creator, Ross Ulbricht, was arrested in San Francisco in October 2013. Ulbricht was convicted at a high-profile trial and was sentenced to life in prison in May 2015.

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  1. So what by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    he did a crime, and now gets prosecuted for it. Normal business of a state. Plus, its nothing controversial. Its not piracy, its real crimes like drug trading or murder for hire. Slashdot front page is not worth this irrelevant story.

    1. Re:So what by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

      These stories are FBI agenda. They are pretending they are required for the public safety. Really they are the biggest drug traffickers and hugest mole network in the history of mankind.

      They did worse at Debian. They killed Ian Murdock. They are murderers, liars, and treasonous backstabbing spies sucking off the tax payer dollars.

  2. So no more soveriegn countries then ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This is a complete disgrace. This is an Irish citizen. If he's committed a crime on Irish soil he should be tried in and Irish court under Irish law.

    The idea that countries, mainly America, can now extradite people all over the world sticks two fingers up at the idea of sovereign states.

    What's next ? An American being sent to face the death penalty because there's a video of them dropping some chewing gum on the streets of Singapore ?

  3. Re:WELL NO DOUBT ITS THANKS TO SLASHDOT FBI by negRo_slim · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Fucking cunts.

    My thoughts exactly, especially the life sentence of Ulbricht. That is simply insane considering the harm reduction SR offered to people who were going to buy their dope anyways. 10 years max, plus 10 for each attempted murder for higher would be much more just and sane.

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