The rise and fall of silk road

I didnt really follow it when the story broke, but man. That was a fascinating read.

I dont quite follow the beginning of this story, They planted drugs outside his door and then busted him for bringing it in and opening the package? Somehow I find that has to be pretty illegal.

Now if he signed for said package, thats quite different. But just dumping a random package at a door and not having people claim them to bust them, seems like all I would do if I was a cop. I mean why use real blow then? Seems like they just planted the guy.

I didn't make it through much more of this, I kind of felt like it wasn't really that accurate. The "Silk Road" is doing just fine. The Dark Web is thriving and the silk road was a small fraction of a percent of it. There are thousands of Silk roads out there and always will be.

He admitted to ordering the cocaine. Instead of the regular postman delivering it, a fed did. It wasnt planted

Some of you would be surprised how many DEA agents wear UPS and/or FedEx uniforms and carry around boxes packed full of narcotics.

Looks like there is a lot more to the story than was originally reported (as usual). I found it interesting the stories of him hiring hitmen to take out employees. Sounds like he may have been sampling some product and pretty paranoid.

Just skimmed the article, but this would make an interesting book/movie.

It really would. I think the dude even wrote that in his journal. Maybe cast one of the Franco's in a serious role.

Just read both parts

What an interesting read! Even at the end I had no idea that the one dude was running his own scheme. Definitely movie-material