Alleged Silk Road Mastermind Was a Dirty Hippie, Best Friend Says

Before a big physics final at the University of Texas at Dallas, two students blew off steam by playing a racquetball match. The students, both male, agreed the loser would wear a dress to the exam

As he recalled, Jaspreet Sidhu defeated his best friend and roommate, Ross Ulbricht, in the match. That was in 2005, well before the FBI arrested Ulbricht in a San Francisco library on Oct. 1 of this year. Ulbricht is accused of running Silk Road, an online marketplace for all measure of drugs and other contraband, under the alias "Dread Pirate Roberts." Silk Road facilitated more than $1 billion in transactions during its two-and-a-half year existence, according to court documents, before the FBI seized the site the same day as Ulbricht's arrest. Read more...

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