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Defendant Sentenced in Silk Road Case
Gary Davis, a/k/a ‘Libertas,’ was sentenced to 78 months in prison for his role in the Silk Road website, an online black market that facilitated the sale of illegal goods and services.
The Silk Road website, which operated from 2011 until 2013, was used by thousands of drug dealers and other unlawful vendors to distribute over $200 million worth of illegal drugs and other illicit goods and services to more than 115,000 buyers.
As a site administrator, Davis was responsible for monitoring user activity on the site, responding to customer support requests, and investigating disputes between vendors and buyers.
Davis was also responsible for helping to enforce the rules for doing business on Silk Road, which had been set by Ross Ulbricht, the site’s founder.
Ulbricht paid Davis a weekly salary for his work as a site administrator.
The case against Davis was brought by the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Geoffrey S. Berman.
Berman said in a statement, ‘Gary Davis helped run the Silk Road website – a dark web marketplace for illegal drugs, hacking services, and other criminal activity. Davis’s arrest, extradition from Ireland, conviction, and prison sentence should send an unmistakable message: the dark web does not cast shadows long enough to protect criminals from the long arm of the law.’
The Silk Road website was a sprawling black market bazaar on the Internet, where illegal goods and services were regularly bought and sold by the site’s users.
During its more than two-and-a-half years in operation, Silk Road was used by nearly 4,000 vendors to distribute illicit goods and services to more than 115,000 buyers, including hundreds of kilograms of illegal drugs, fake IDs and passports, computer hacking tools and services, counterfeit goods and pirated media, and money laundering services.
More than 1.5 million transactions were conducted over Silk Road, with a total value of more than $213 million in U.S. currency.
Nearly 95 percent of those sales (approximately $183 million worth) were for illegal drugs.
Key Facts
- State: New York
- Category: Cybercrime|Drug Trafficking|Fraud & Financial Crimes
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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