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But the Department of Justice statement that accompanies it does accuse Clark of coaching Ulbricht on how to "use threats of violence to thwart law enforcement."Īside from his close relationship with Ulbricht, Clark in his alleged role as Variety Jones may also have run his own business on the Silk Road selling marijuana seeds. Instead his murder was faked by the Drug Enforcement Administration, for whom Green had already become a cooperating witness.)įriday's unsealed indictment against Clark, to be clear, makes no explicit mention of that murder plot. "Also, if you had balked, I would have seriously re-considered our relationship." (In fact, Green was never killed. "You would have surprised me if you had balked at taking the step, of bluntly, killing Curtis for fucking up just a wee bit too badly," Cimon, a.k.a. "As a side note, at what point in time do we decide we've had enough of someones shit, and terminate them?"Ī few minutes later, the Dread Pirate Roberts agrees to have Green killed, and his top advisor tells him he's made the right decision. "Tell me about the organ donor." Soon, he suggests killing Green more explicitly. "Enough about the theft," the renamed advisor says in a chat log with Ulbricht. The next year, after Variety Jones had changed his name on the Silk Road to Cimon, he would also be the first to suggest that Ulbricht pay for the murder of Curtis Clark Green, an arrested employee they believed had stolen bitcoins from the site and who they worried might become an informant. "Today’s extradition of Roger Clark shows that despite alleged attempts to operate under the radar, he was never out of our reach.” "As Ulbricht’s right-hand man, Roger Clark allegedly advised him of methods to thwart law enforcement during the operation of this illegal ploy, pocketing hundreds of thousands of dollars in the process," writes FBI assistant director William Sweeney in a press statement. But even those charges don't capture the outsize role Clark is believed to have played in building and managing the Silk Road, from security audits to marketing, and even reportedly encouraging Ulbricht to use violence to maintain his empire. The indictment accuses Clark, who allegedly went by the pseudonyms Variety Jones, Cimon, and Plural of Mongoose in his role as Silk Road's consigliere, of crimes ranging from narcotics trafficking to money laundering.
On Friday, the FBI, IRS, DHS, and prosecutors in the Southern District of New York announced the extradition of 56-year-old Canadian man Roger Clark from a Thai jail cell to New York to face newly unsealed charges for his role in Silk Road's operation. But even now, the Silk Road saga still hasn't ended: Half a decade after Ulbricht's arrest, his alleged advisor, mentor and right-hand man Roger Clark will finally face a US court, too.
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Ulbricht went on trial in a New York courtroom, and is currently serving a life sentence without parole.
It's been nearly five years since the FBI surrounded Ross Ulbricht in the science fiction section of a San Francisco library, arrested him, and grabbed the laptop from which he had run the dark web drug bazaar known as the Silk Road.
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