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Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: uncertainty
19 Jan 2021 Acquired Bitcoin
“The accusation was that he had tried to pay—I don’t know if it was through Silk Road or through other darknet sites—to have people killed who he thought were after him.”
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Everything needed to verify it.
- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- uncertainty
- Recorded
- 19 Jan 2021
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Bitcoin
Transcript context
…No way. Yeah. Quite the reversal from Eagle Scout to—I don't want to say drug lord because he was just operating the platform, but he had quite the journey, let say. He wasn’t convicted on attempted murder charges, but gotten more and more paranoid as he was operating this site with the pseudonym and thought that people were out to get him, which obviously, they were. The FBI agents at least. The accusation was that he had tried to pay—I don’t know if it was through Silk Road or through other darknet sites—to have people killed who he thought were after him. Nobody was actually killed, none of this actually happened, and he wasn’t convicted. But he was convicted of seven charges related to money laundering, computer hacking, conspiracy to traffic narcotics, et cetera. He’s in jail for life, right?…
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