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Topic: [2020-01-31] Senior Adviser / Operator Of The “Silk Road” Website Pleads Guilty - page 3. (Read 564 times)

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CLARK, 56, a citizen of Canada, pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute narcotics, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.

So unlike DPR, Variety Jones at least has a chance of dying outside prison walls.

Since he was arrested over four years ago maybe we'll see him making an AMA on /r/Bitcoin in the near future if he gets sentenced to time served only.
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Senior Adviser To The Operator Of The “Silk Road” Website Pleads Guilty In Manhattan Federal Court

Roger Thomas Clark Was a Key Figure in the Development of Silk Road, Advised Ross Ulbricht on All Aspects of the Criminal Enterprise, and Urged and Facilitated an Attempted Murder-for-Hire
Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ROGER THOMAS CLARK, a/k/a “Plural of Mongoose,” a/k/a “Variety Jones,” a/k/a “VJ,” a/k/a “cimon,” pled guilty today to conspiring to distribute massive quantities of narcotics, a charge arising out of his role as the senior adviser to the owner and operator of the “Silk Road” online illicit black market.  During its operation from 2011 until 2013, Silk Road was used by thousands of drug dealers and other unlawful vendors to distribute illegal drugs and other illicit goods and services to more than 100,000 buyers, and to launder hundreds of millions of dollars derived from those unlawful transactions.  CLARK pled guilty before United States District Judge William H. Pauley III.
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https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/senior-adviser-operator-silk-road-website-pleads-guilty-manhattan-federal-court
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