The Government Tells Ross Ulbricht He Owes It $183,961,921

In a memo on Thursday, government prosecutors imposed a money judgement against the Ulbricht equal to $183,961,921. They came to that number based on the transactional records from Silk Road showing the amount of illegal drug sales as $182,960,285 combined with the transactions for fake identification equal to $1,001,636.

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-government-tells-ross-ulbricht-he-owes-them-183961921


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[27 Points] None:

Can you imagine if the parasites and banks and corrupt government and corporation fucks were pursued and vilified like this?

"The government noted that the pending civil forfeiture against Ulbricht, which includes the bitcoins found on his laptop at the time of his arrest, can be credited to the judgement. That includes 700,000 bitcoins, which were worth $13.4 million at the time of transactions but are worth $166,124,000 at current conversion rates."

Shit man, I honestly don't know how he is going to cope with the regret. He didn't have to do a single thing other than walk away and he'd be sitting on 166 million dollars. At least. That knowledge and the regret is going to cripple and destroy him over the years: "Why didn't I just...", "If only I had walked..."


[12 Points] None:

They have to fund their useless war on drugs somehow.


[6 Points] drimilr:

what do Agts Forced and Tarballs owe the government?


[5 Points] ITOM-Warning:

How much taxpayer money did the government just "lose" over the years?

When are they going to pay that back?


[6 Points] UDNM:

I think it's time for a civil war in the US. Seriously if I lived there my #1 priority would be getting the fuck out and moving to a real first world country.

You guys are like 20 years away from being North Korea, I say that because I can't think of any other country besides North Korea where it would be legal for the Government to pull shit like this, and the US is the only country in the world where the citizens tolerate it.


[5 Points] DancingWindAway:

Does he have to FE it though ? Or does the goverment provide a escrow service ?


[-1 Points] None:

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