The FBI says that Ulbricht, using the screenname Dread Pirate Roberts, paid $500,000 to have the man killed in Canada, but no records of such a murder have been found so far. This indictment ...

The online drug trade looked doomed. But Silk Road soon reopened, with a new “Dread Pirate Roberts”—Ulbricht’s alleged user name taken from the movie The Princess Bride—claiming ownership.

stand accused of stealing $1 million in illicit funds stemming from their roles in the investigation of Silk Road and its shadowy organizer known as "Dread Pirate Roberts." Lawyers for Ross ...