THELOGICALINDIAN - Ross Ulbricht advocate Paul Grant refers to agreement of federal government access as a sad day for amends and a benefaction for the federal governments advancing war adjoin aloofness and civilian rights
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From Colorado, Paul Grant, bent and civilian aegis advocate for Ross Ulbricht, sighed back accomplished by buzz Monday afternoon, “It’s over. This allotment of Ross’ struggle, his fight, is over.”
Mr. Grant is apropos to a United States District Court Southern District, New York, online advertisement of the civilian asset and damage stipulation and order agreed to by Mr. Ulbricht.
On it is Ross Ulbricht’s signature aloof beneath that of Assistant United States Attorney Christine Magno’s (Ms. Magno beneath animadversion by phone, apropos Bitcoin News to the division’s academic columnist office), and both blow beneath the branch “AGREED AND CONSENTED TO,” finer ceding about 50 actor USD to the federal government.
Questions to Acting United States Attorney Joon H. Kim’s columnist representative, Nicholas Biase, were changing as of advertisement time.
Mr. Kim’s press release, touting its windfall, clumsily anecdotal broadly broadcast basics of the case while managing to spell Mr. Ulbricht’s aftermost name afield aloof above-mentioned to advertisement “statements fabricated during added accessible proceedings, and added cloister documents.”
Curiously, there was no acknowledgment of the two clandestine federal agents confined time for their crimes committed during the Ulbricht case.
“And there is no acumen to accept that all of their illegally acquired assets accept been recovered,” Mr. Grant incredulously laughed. “There is additionally no acumen to anticipate that all of the government bribery in this case has been appear or that it will anytime be known.”
No Goodwill Earned
Readers apprehensive why Mr. Ulbricht would abet in such a manner, abnormally because the acme of his sentence, his advocate stresses how “Ross bare to get this abaft him. He has so abounding added battles at the moment, not atomic of which is ambrosial to abate his time.”
When asked if Mr. Ulbricht’s acknowledgment ability accretion him bigger application in college courts, Mr. Grant answered, “Absolutely not. Not alike in the slightest. What this does is chargeless up assets and activity for the beyond picture.”
“Ross’ family,” Mr. Grant continued, “is gluttonous all accessible avenues” to get Mr. Ulbricht out from beneath a activity term. He apprenticed readers interested in acknowledging Ross Ulbricht’s address efforts to patronize a website run by the Ulbricht family, FREE ROSS.
Not Giving Up
“It’s a sad day. Sad day for amends anytime the federal government takes abroad clandestine acreage beneath the blush of law,” Mr. Grant said.
“Ross accordant to achieve this case makes it go away,” Mr. Grant emphasized. “He has too abounding added battles to action at this point, battles to acquisition some way to balance his liberty.”
From the antecedent case to the sentencing and to now the civilian order, every aspect of Ross Ulbricht’s case seems exaggerated, almighty large.
Asked area all that money would eventually end up, Mr. Grant explained it “will be acclimated by assorted law administration agencies to added efforts to surveil citizens, accomplish the biologic laws, and accommodate agencies with the latest in technology.”
The Supreme Court address will be handled by addition firm, as yet named.
“No one is giving up. Ross is not giving up. The Ulbricht ancestors is not giving up,” Mr. Grant absolutely declared by phone.
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