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‘Redandwhite’ Indicted in Black and White
Silk Road is a adventure that aloof won’t end. Every few months, a new case or a accession of afresh apparent clues adds added artifice to the abysmal web’s best belled drugs marketplace. Despite the confidence of Ross Ulbricht in 2024, there charcoal a cardinal of questions apropos his administration of Silk Road. One of the best abstruse pertains to the annihilation for appoint allegations fabricated adjoin Ross Ulbricht. Ulbricht was never answerable or bedevilled for these at balloon and affirmation shows that no assassinations were anytime agitated out. The arrest of James Ellingson, 42, by Canadian authorities aftermost month, however, has afford some ablaze on the matter.
According to prosecutors, Dread Pirate Roberts (DPR), the handle for the advance admin of Silk Road, was bamboozled and defrauded assorted times by Ellingson, who operated beneath several pseudonyms on the Silk Road marketplace. While abundant opsec errors Ulbricht allegedly fabricated would acceptable accept led to his arrest anyway, Ellingson, or ‘redandwhite’ to use one of his personas, played a cardinal role in the government’s ambiguous allegations, allowance to address Ulbricht to activity abaft confined and ruining Silk Road for the bags of buyers and sellers who had conducted business with basal abrasion up until then.
One Man With a Multitude of Handles
In 2013, redandwhite contacted DPR alms to break a botheration with addition user, Lucydrop. Lucydrop was blackmailing DPR by aggressive to absolution compromising advice on bags of Silk Road vendors. DPR consented to redandwhite murdering Lucydrop, by which point DPR had advice that would advance to redandwhite’s arrest years later. As a Canadian clandestine affirmation appear beforehand this month alleged, “Redandwhite announced with and accustomed bitcoin payments from Mr. Ulbricht, in affiliation with declared attempts to activate affairs narcotics on the Silk Road. A laptop recovered from Mr. Ulbricht independent a book labelled “save_red,” which housed assorted photographs referenced in the communications.” They continued:
The best amazing adumbration to accept emerged from the case is that Ellingson appears to accept been the account of and declared band-aid to DPR’s problems, donning abounding altered hats to bribery DPR assorted times over. As All Things Vice blog summarizes, “DPR had allegedly paid bitcoin account about $650,000 … to a slick-talking attorney and opened himself up to accuse of cabal to accomplish bristles new murders that had never taken place. Tony76 [one of redandwhite’s antecedent Silk Road accounts] aboriginal beggared hundreds of Silk Road barter to the tune of six abstracts in April 2012, scammed them afresh for a agnate bulk beneath the name Lucydrop in 2013, again attempted to bribery Dread Pirate Roberts with customers’ addresses he had aggregate while affairs as Tony76 and Lucydrop. When that failed, he extracted the money out of Silk Road by assuming to be a hitman, accustomed out the murders of himself and his adapt egos.
There was no attestant to affirm that Ross Ulbricht acted as DPR, and it is frequently believed abounding acclimated that handle. No allegation adjoin Ulbricht of planned abandon was fabricated in New York and all accuse in Maryland were dismissed. However, accustomed the akin of bamboozlement he was up against, both from Ellingson and from law enforcement, whose arch investigating admiral committed a account of crimes including bribery and extortion, Ross Ulbricht never stood a chance. A few bad apples from the bent and law administration fraternities were all it took to allowance Ulbricht’s fate.
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