'Law and order' candidate pledges to commute sentence of major drug trafficker

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Bradley P. Moss @BradMossEsq 1h
Party of law and order running on a pledge to commute sentence for the leader of a drug trafficking ring

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NEW for @CBSNews: In tonight's speech to the Libertarian Party in D.C. Donald Trump will call for the commutation of Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht's sentence to time served. Ulbricht is currently serving life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for multiple felonies.

Ulbricht was sentenced for his role as what prosecutors described as “the kingpin of a worldwide digital drug-trafficking enterprise.”

Mr. Ulbricht had faced a minimum of 20 years in prison on one of the counts for which he was convicted. But in handing down a much longer sentence, Judge Forrest told Mr. Ulbricht that “what you did in connection with Silk Road was terribly destructive to our social fabric.”

Mr. Ulbricht’s novel high-tech drug bazaar operated in a hidden part of the Internet sometimes known as the dark web, which allowed deals to be made anonymously and out of the reach of law enforcement. In Silk Road’s nearly three years of operation, over 1.5 million transactions were carried out involving several thousand seller accounts and more than 100,000 buyer accounts, the authorities have said.

Transactions were made using the virtual currency Bitcoin, and Mr. Ulbricht, operating under the pseudonym Dread Pirate Roberts, took in millions of dollars in commissions, prosecutors have said. They said Mr. Ulbricht had “developed a blueprint for a new way to use the Internet to undermine the law and facilitate criminal transactions,” and that his conviction was “the first of its kind, and his sentencing is being closely watched.”

Judge Forrest echoed that message. “What you did was unprecedented,” she told Mr. Ulbricht, “and in breaking that ground as the first person,” he had to pay the consequences. Anyone who might consider doing something similar, the judge added, needed to understand clearly “and without equivocation that if you break the law this way, there will be very serious consequences.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/30/nyregion/ross-ulbricht-creator-of-silk-road-website-is-sentenced-to-life-in-prison.html

[LiberalFighter]

1. And this will help his campaign? Haha

[republianmushroom]

2. Trump now looking for drug money to pay for his campaign ?

First big oil now drugs, what is next ?

[Marthe48]

3. Just more slime masquerading as normal

America isn't a nation of crime and criminals. The same thugs on high who are encouraging oppression of social rights are also encouraging criminal lawlessness. As if they are sying, "it's okay, everybody does it." Everybody doesn't do it. And Americans who care about law, who observe laws, who expect to live in a country run according to written laws and even unwritten laws, those Americans had better straighten up. It is too easy to slide into acceptance that everybody does it, and either ignore what's happening, or dropping your own standards of conduct. Everybody doesn't do it.

[TheFarseer]

4. For what reason?

And did he end up actually saying that in his speech?

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5. 'winning'

...and, yes.

___Donald Trump promised members of the Libertarian Party that he would “put a libertarian in my cabinet” and commute the life sentence of Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, a top demand of a political movement that intends to run its own candidate against him.

“On day one, we will commute the sentence,” Trump said, offering to free the creator of what was once the internet’s most infamous drug clearinghouse. “We will bring him home.” His speeches more typically include a pledge to execute drug dealers, citing China as a model.

“It’s time to be winners,” said Trump, asking rhetorically if third party delegates wanted to go on getting single-digit protest votes. “I’m asking for the Libertarian Party’s endorsement, or at least lots of your votes.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-promises-libertarians-cabinet-slot-011830366.html