Dread Pirate Roberts 2, the 'guiding mind' of Silk Road 2.0, jailed for over 5 years

Thomas White, the founder of notorious website Silk Road 2.0, has been jailed for five years and four months by a UK court. White, also known as Dread Pirate Roberts 2, was charged with not only running Silk Road 2.0 -- the site through which he earned hundreds of thousands of dollars per day on the dark web -- but also the possession of hundreds of indecent images of children. Last month in court in Liverpool, White pleaded guilty to drug trafficking, money laundering and making indecent images of children. He also pleaded guilty to assisting or inducing the commission… [Continue Reading]