Question

please discuss the case involving the United States of America versus Ross Ulbricht.

Answer 1

Explanation:

United States of America vs Ross Ulbricht.

• US District court of New York sentences Ross Ulbricht of Life imprisonment because jury convicted him of drug trafficking and other various related crime also he created silk road and operated it, silk road which was online marketplace for buying and selling of illegal goods and services. Ross Ulbricht convicted of seven counts due to his creation of and operation of Silk Road under the username of Dread Pirate Roberts. Silk Road was larger criminal marketplace which was operating with use of Tor Network that render internet traffic through this Tor browser which was extremely hard to trace. In this marketplace mainly users purchase and sell drugs, fake IDs, Hacking software for computers. In this market place users can privately message to each other. Silk Road attracted interest of different government agency and monitored activity of Silk Road and Ross Ulbricht. They monitored IP traffic activity of Silk Road and government got the Pen/trap order on the name of Ulbricht as primary suspect in DPR investigation. Government agencies assigned different undercover agents to find evidence against Ulbricht and communicated under different username of administrators of Silk Road and collected evidence that Ulbricht was prime accuse in this illegal business. Finally Ulbricht was arrested on proper evidence in year 2013.