Silk Road's Ulbricht Accused Of Six Murder For Hire Plots

Silk Road's Mastermind Accused Of Arranging Multiple Murders
FILE- In this Oct. 4, 2013 file photo, an artist rendering showing Ross William Ulbricht during an appearance at Federal Court in San Francisco is shown. Authorities say that Ulbricht had spent most of three years "evading law enforcement, living a double life" while operating an underground website known as Silk Road, a black-market bazaar for cocaine, heroin and other drugs, while portraying himself as an Internet trailblazer. On Thursday, Nov. 21, 2013, a federal judge ordered Ulbricht held without bail during a court appearence in New York.. (AP Photo/Vicki Behringer, File)
FILE- In this Oct. 4, 2013 file photo, an artist rendering showing Ross William Ulbricht during an appearance at Federal Court in San Francisco is shown. Authorities say that Ulbricht had spent most of three years "evading law enforcement, living a double life" while operating an underground website known as Silk Road, a black-market bazaar for cocaine, heroin and other drugs, while portraying himself as an Internet trailblazer. On Thursday, Nov. 21, 2013, a federal judge ordered Ulbricht held without bail during a court appearence in New York.. (AP Photo/Vicki Behringer, File)

Ross Ulbricht, the alleged mastermind of the $1.2 billion online “black-market bazaar” known as Silk Road, attempted to arrange the murders of at least six people including a worker he believed had stolen $350,000 in bitcoins from him, the U.S. said.

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