They caught this dude red handed at a library with his computer admin panel still up. Lol. He's toast.
You can get 25 years for serving a couple pounds of cocaine. Running a billion+ dollar cp/drug society = he won't be seeing daylight for most likely the majority of his adult life.
His only, and I mean only hope to escape a life sentence is if they offer him some kind of plea deal where he works with the fbi to crack down against illicit btc operations. Which, I could actually see happening.
I don't see the government offering any kind of plea deal in exchange for corporation to help take down others. The reason those kinds of plea deals are made is to try to convict "bigger fish" however the operator of Silk Road1 is pretty much the biggest fish in the online illegal drug world. You can get 25 years for serving a couple pounds of cocaine. Running a billion+ dollar cp/drug society = he won't be seeing daylight for most likely the majority of his adult life.
His only, and I mean only hope to escape a life sentence is if they offer him some kind of plea deal where he works with the fbi to crack down against illicit btc operations. Which, I could actually see happening.
I would say his chances of being found not guilty would lie on the chances that evidence will be thrown out because it was obtained illegally
That's a good point. They may just throw the book at him in order to set a precedence and try and cast a public black eye on the currency. We all know how the US government generally feels about cryptos right now..
