{"id":51426,"date":"2017-06-01T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=51426"},"modified":"2017-06-01T14:08:06","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T21:08:06","slug":"silk-road-founder-ross-ulbrichts-life-sentence-upheld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/silk-road-founder-ross-ulbrichts-life-sentence-upheld\/","title":{"rendered":"Silk Road Founder’s Life Sentence Upheld, Adding to Prosecutor Preet Bharara’s Legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"
Ross Ulbricht spent his criminal adult life operating the most notorious online drug marketplace in the world, better known as Silk Road. He lived in the shadows of law enforcement who were trying to track him down. Some three years and eight months after his October 2013 arrest, the mastermind who ran the exchange under the pseudonym “Dead Pirate Roberts” has learned that he will indeed spend the rest of his life behind bars in a federal prison.<\/p>\n