Sam Bankman-Fried and other crypto criminals serving long prison sentences
Ross Ulbricht was born in 1984 in Austin, Texas, and founded the Silk Road in 2013, a notorious dark web marketplace that facilitated illegal activities such as drug trafficking through Bitcoin transactions. During the investigation, the FBI seized 144,336 Bitcoin from a shared digital wallet on his laptop, selling them through a series of auctions that generated approximately $48.2 million.
In 2015, Ulbricht was convicted of several crimes, including money laundering, computer hacking, and narcotics trafficking. He is currently serving a double life sentence (50 years) plus an additional 40 years, totaling 1080 months, without the possibility…
