On today's episode of UnpluggedFidex, we talk about Angie's recent trip to the beach with her friends and how she handled it. Also, we have a new code for Cyber Monday!
00:08:47.240I didn't update it, like, this week because we're going to have Silk Road.
00:08:51.580So, this week that is coming now, and December 1st and all that stuff, actually, on November 3rd, on Thursday, November 3rd, I'm going to make another live to update this list that I have right now.
00:09:02.620But the one that I have right now, that I updated last week, I have Jonathan J. Pollard, which is an intelligence analyst.
00:09:09.440Jeff Davis 8, Michelle Blair, Mark Duggan, Mahek Bukhari.
00:09:16.220Also, guys, you keep sending cases from outside, foreign cases.
00:09:22.440And as I told you before, we're going to, like, prioritize the ones here in America.
00:09:29.260And then we're going to do the ones that you guys request the most.
00:09:32.120The one that is upvoted right now, it's the Canadian serial killers, the Ben and Barbie killers, Paul Bernardo and his wife.
00:09:41.920And that's the ones that we'll probably cover next for, like, foreign cases.
00:11:44.420So, you know, obviously I don't have to explain myself or whatever, but it just goes to show how sick and weird some people are where they're stalking Angie's private life and making assumptions that just quite frankly aren't true.
00:11:56.300Hell, she was thinking about deleting her Instagram and I told her, no, you're not going to let these weirdos win.
00:12:50.880Check your facts with me, you know, like, because I'm the first-hand, like, contact that you can, like, verify this information with.
00:12:58.500So, instead of creating rumors and causing me problems because it's getting so far that you guys are going to my family and, like, DMing my family.
00:16:25.900Then the support staff and personnel that might have an expertise, et cetera, can come in.
00:16:30.800Like, I remember before I've been on a raid where we went after someone who was selling, like, fake pharmaceuticals, right?
00:16:35.920And we had someone, a rep, from that company, right, there to identify the counterfeits versus the reels, et cetera.
00:16:44.040And something like that, if we don't want them to be identified or whatever it may be, once the house is secure, we might give them a raid jacket.
00:16:49.400They could come in and help us identify, et cetera, just so that, you know, the public might not necessarily know who they are or whatever it is.
00:16:54.400So sometimes when you bring a subject matter expert or you bring someone in that isn't a gun toad or maybe you bring one of your analysts, et cetera, and they're in there, they'll wear a raid jacket after everything is safe.
00:17:05.680And a lot of agencies employ that tactic with their support staff.
00:17:09.540Very nuanced question, but a good question nonetheless.
00:17:17.560It's Liddy Titty goes, after watching a lot of FNF, whenever I am in public and I see my bitch, I find myself insulting them in my head instead of thirsting.
00:17:26.380I think it's the superiority complex, okay?
00:17:51.600Triple H is very in touch with, he's very in touch and very in tune with what's going on in the wrestling community, what people want, the talent that's going over.
00:17:59.900So, like, and everyone's been happy when Triple H has been taking the helm.
00:18:04.960And then, of course, I don't know if I talked with Myron about it, but, of course, with Shawn Michaels running the developmental system.
00:18:13.640So it was like WWE still is great hands.
00:22:25.640It could have been – I remember for me, it was – I was in college and everybody was smoking and doing drugs.
00:22:32.260And all my friends were there and I wanted to stay at the party but I left because I knew that being in an environment like that is just not a good look, especially with me wanting to get into a certain career field.
00:22:43.740So, obviously, I had to sacrifice, you know, building camaraderie with the friends and shit like that and some fun for the long term.
00:22:52.060So, having a story like that in the back of your mind, et cetera, that you actually experienced that puts you in a compromise – not compromising, but puts you in a tough situation, that a lot of times speaks volumes.
00:23:00.260So, have something like that in the back.
00:23:01.660And just be honest, bro, and don't take it too seriously.
00:23:03.700It's going to be a remote interview, so it will be a little bit easier.
00:23:06.360But I remember, yeah, when I did mine, I had three agents interviewing me and typically what they'll do is they'll have a 13, right, so a senior agent.
00:23:16.020Then they'll have a supervisor, which is a GS-14 or a supervisory special agent, and then they'll have an assistant special agent in charge or an ASAC interviewing you.
00:23:24.980Most of these agencies, when they do their panel interview, that's how they do it.
00:23:27.200They have a case – they have an agent that actually does cases, a supervisor, and then that second line supervisor, which is an ASAC, and they'll ask you questions.
00:23:35.160So, your interview – they're probably not going to grill you as hard because you're not applying for an 1811 slash special agent position.
00:23:43.060So, you're not going to be grilled as hard.
00:23:45.400But, you know, don't take – don't stress out too bad, okay?
00:23:54.880I literally did an episode on how to prepare for a law enforcement career and how to deal with interviews, background checks, all that shit, okay?
00:24:08.240I've been watching PDP podcasts and Tim Pool and keep hearing stories about people in power finding a way to cancel the next electoral votes by any means necessary.
00:24:22.180But if Trump does not win the 2024 election, we are going to be in a very, very bad position.
00:24:27.660You know, as you guys know, we've got conflicts all over the world, you know, one in the Middle East, one in – well, multiple in the Middle East, one in Russia slash Ukraine, et cetera.
00:24:37.100And, you know, it's – ironically enough, people say that Trump is terrible for foreign affairs when I think actually we probably had some of the best foreign relations when Trump was in office.
00:24:49.480His bravado attitude and his – how do I say this?
00:24:55.080His lack of fear with holding other nations accountable is actually what kept us safe, you know?
00:25:00.060You got someone like Biden who has interests in other places like China, et cetera.
00:25:04.100We did a whole video, by the way, talking about the Biden crime family and him being involved with Ukraine and China and getting money from foreign nationals in questionable ways.
00:25:12.500You know, go ahead and check that episode out.
00:25:14.120But, yeah, it's just not a good look, man.
00:50:15.900They arrested 29-year-old Ross Ulbricht.
00:50:18.740Ulbricht ran the largest, most sophisticated online market for illegal drugs in history.
00:50:23.500He named it Silk Road, a reference to the ancient trade routes that connected China to Europe beginning in the 2nd century BC.
00:50:29.360Ulbricht hoped to create his own modern day marketplace, except his would sell hardcore drugs and other illegal goods.
00:50:35.240Over the two years and 10 months that Silk Road operated, federal prosecutors say it processed nearly 214 million in sales using Bitcoin.
00:50:42.500The site operated on a hidden part of the internet called the Dark Web.
00:50:45.600Prosecutors say a journal the FBI found on Ulbricht's computer stated he wanted to create a website for people to buy anything anonymously with no trail whatsoever.
00:51:00.640Unfortunately for Ulbricht, he did leave a trail of digital breadcrumbs that ultimately took him down and his empire with it.
00:51:07.660Ulbricht was born on March 17, 1984 in Austin, Texas.
00:51:11.660He was a Boy Scout, attaining the highest rank of Eagle Scout, just like his dad had done.
00:51:16.020Austin, Texas, just so y'all know, by the way, one of the fastest growing cities in the United States for the past, like, you know, 15 years or whatever.
00:51:21.700Austin has constantly been in, like, the top 10 cities.
00:51:37.860I had an arrest warrant for a guy, and they, yeah, we're going back in time right now.
00:51:42.360And, you know, as you guys know, I was in Laredo, Texas.
00:51:45.280Laredo's about three hours south of Austin on Interstate Highway 35.
00:51:50.140And he got arrested in Travis County, which, if I'm not mistaken, Travis County is where Austin is located.
00:51:55.960San Antonio's in Bear County, and then Austin is in Travis County.
00:51:59.220He got arrested in a little rinky-dick town outside of Austin.
00:52:01.900And they called me and said, hey, we got your, because whenever you have an arrest warrant on somebody, right,
00:52:07.060they call the agency that has the arrest warrant on them to see if it's still valid.
00:52:10.800And they called, hey, we got your guy in custody here, blah, blah, blah.
00:52:13.960We see that there's a federal arrest warrant for him, blah, blah, blah.
00:52:16.160So I was like, oh, yeah, yeah, no, I'll definitely, you know, obviously we're going to honor that.
00:52:19.700So I fucking, you know, jumped in with my guy from DEA, and we drove all the way up to Austin, Texas.
00:52:25.180And, you know, and we went to go get him and bring him to court and shit like that.
00:52:28.940And I'll never forget the traffic, how bad it was, bro, because there's one main highway that goes through Austin, and it's Interstate 35.
00:52:35.720I know there was another highway that goes around Austin, so you don't have to go through the traffic.
00:52:38.980But the thing with Austin, Texas, is that it's been, basically the city grew too fast,
00:52:44.500and the infrastructure has not caught up to the population explosion, okay?
00:52:48.500It's been growing for a significant amount of years.
00:52:51.520Sorry, it's been growing exponentially for years now, and the infrastructure never caught up.
00:52:57.300And now, right, you've got people like Joe Rogan, Elon Musk, Google, fuck, I forget what other tech company he moved out there to Austin, Texas.
00:53:06.060But big tech, a lot of them left Silicon Valley and went over to Texas for obviously more attractive taxes, better cost of living, et cetera, not as woke.
00:53:16.140And, you know, Austin now is super, it's a little bit more liberal now.
00:53:19.360I would consider Austin one of the few places in Texas that isn't really Texas because it's kind of woke over there.
00:53:26.920Stay away from the 6th Street guys at night can be pretty dangerous.
00:53:30.800But, yeah, I would say one of the worst traffics, one of the worst traffic in the country by far.
00:53:37.000People always complain about Houston and L.A. and New York.
00:53:39.740Austin might be worse, and the reason why is because there's so many people that live there compared to the infrastructure that's there.
00:53:44.640Because the city is, the infrastructure for the city is like really for only a few hundred thousand people, but there's a lot of people that live there now.
00:53:54.320I remember because after I drove, because, you know, as you guys know, when you arrest someone, you have to bring them in front of a magistrate judge within 24 hours.
00:54:01.800I brought him in front of the judge, presented him whatever it may be.
00:54:04.560He gets remanded to the marshals, right, because he was a flight risk.
00:54:07.560And then at this point, it's like 3, 4 p.m. in the afternoon, you know.
00:54:11.660And at that point, that's rush hour, right, in big cities like this.
00:54:54.880Growing up an easygoing hipster but serious student who scored 1,460 on his SATs within the 96th percentile
00:55:02.680and got a full ride to the University of Texas at Austin, where he studied physics.
00:55:06.980He then won another full scholarship for a master's at Penn State in material science and engineering.
00:55:12.840It was at Penn that he evolved into a hardcore libertarian, a political philosophy that advocates individualism and minimal state involvement in people's lives.
00:55:21.200He was a fan and follower of libertarian economist Ludwig von Mises, who opposed government interference in the economy.
00:55:28.380When then-presidential candidate Mitt Romney asked what is America's greatest challenge, Ulbricht responded like this on his YouTube channel.
00:55:35.760You know, but I think the most important thing is getting us out of the United Nations.
00:55:40.600Ulbricht wanted to create a world free from institutional or government control.
00:55:45.000That mindset led him to create Silk Road in January 2011.
00:55:49.080You couldn't type in a normal web address to get to Silk Road or use a normal web browser.
00:55:54.380You needed software called Tor that works as a web browser.
00:55:58.020Tor was developed by the U.S. Navy as a way of communicating privately over the Internet.
00:56:02.820It conceals the real IP address of computers on the network to hide the identity of the user, and it can't be traced by the government.
01:02:16.940This fit Albrecht's libertarian mindset.
01:02:19.540He believed that whatever someone decided to put in their body was their choice and no one else's, least of all the government's.
01:02:26.160Albrecht also believed everyone had the right to self-defense when guns started appearing on Silk Road.
01:02:31.120However, he realized he didn't need the controversy and soon took weapons off the site.
01:02:36.020After getting his business up and running, he turned his attention to a...
01:02:39.000That's one thing I'll disagree with as far as like...
01:02:41.860Because I have a lot of libertarian stances as well as far as like from a political standpoint.
01:02:46.180But that's one thing I don't agree with is like just letting people use drugs.
01:02:49.100Because the problem is that when you...
01:02:52.900Illicit drugs come with inherent problems that are dangerous to society.
01:02:57.300What ends up happening is you're always going to end up with a black market of people that are selling the drugs and are willing to use violence to distribute said drugs.
01:03:05.400Now, I know some of you guys might say, well, if you just regulate it, it'll be fine.
01:03:09.820There's always going to be a way that criminal enterprises are going to be able to bring in harder, pure, cheaper drugs than the pharmaceuticals, etc.
01:03:17.260So you're never going to really remove that street element from drug trafficking.
01:04:03.140That's why I don't think that legalizing drugs is ever a good move.
01:04:06.960And then on top of that, making it legal and making it more available to the general public isn't a good look in general because more people are going to go, oh, let's experiment.
01:05:09.760He decided to write a post on a Magic Mushrooms forum called The Shroomery, pretending to be someone who happened to come across Silk Road.
01:08:27.940Everything coming into the United States is subject to search by customs.
01:08:30.340Okay, now that we've established that, this comes into the Chicago O'Hare Airport, okay, in Illinois, and it's obviously subject to customs inspection.
01:08:40.020CBP officers, Customs and Border Protection officers, the guys with the blue uniforms, okay?
01:08:43.540And remember, I've explained this to the difference between Border Patrol and the difference between Customs and Border Protection officers, right?
01:08:48.540They're both under, there's one umbrella, CBP, and then there's two sides to it.
01:08:52.460There's Office of Field Operations, and then there's Border Patrol, all right?
01:08:57.580So it's one umbrella, CBP, wait, wait, DHS, then underneath DHS is CBP, and then underneath CBP, there's two factions.
01:09:04.880There's CBPO, which is Office of Field Operations, and then Border Patrol.
01:09:08.560Whenever you're at a valid port of entry, like an airport, a bridge crossing, et cetera, you're going to have the blue uniform guys there.
01:09:15.960Anytime you're not at a valid point of entry, aka you're trying to go across the Rio Grande River or something like that, you're going to see green uniforms, Border Patrol.
01:09:23.360Give me one in the chat if that makes sense to you guys so that I can continue this explanation.
01:09:26.960Give me ones, and if it doesn't make sense, give me a two, and I'll re-explain that part and then keep going, because I want you guys to really understand how this works.
01:09:39.640And if you're going to put a two, please tell me what is confusing.
01:09:44.500Don't just put two, put two in Y, if you're going to put two.
01:11:07.180You got Customs and Border Protection, Office of Field Operations, CBP officers, which are blue uniform.
01:11:11.500When you go to the airport and you travel internationally, the CBP officers, a.k.a. the guys in the blue uniforms, are the ones that check you in.
01:11:18.260And then if you're coming in illegally, maybe through a southwest border or a top border where there isn't a port of entry, like an airport or a sanctioned point of entry, you're going to see green uniforms.
01:11:29.820So, now that we've explained, we'll see what DHS is, CBP is, and then what Customs and Border Protection is, and then what Border Patrol is, because remember, CBP and Border Patrol are two different things.
01:11:53.520They have customs authority, Title 19.
01:11:55.100So, when they're searching the packages, if they find something where there's drugs or contraband or whatever it may be, they're going to contact who?
01:12:12.180CBP, by law, whenever they catch someone trying to smuggle drugs into the country or smuggle illegal aliens or whatever the fuck it is, they have to contact HSI.
01:12:22.280They are interdiction officers, which means their job is to detect and stop, and then as far as furthering the investigations, that's when they call HSI and they come in and they respond.
01:12:39.640Then at that point, it's up to the agent, the case agent that comes in, whoever's on call, it's up to him if he wants to do something called a controlled delivery.
01:12:47.820And what a controlled delivery is, guys, is the package that has a contraband is obviously destined to go somewhere.
01:12:53.840So, what you're going to do is you're going to allow the package to go to its destination to identify conspirators in the drug network or in the criminal activity.
01:13:22.360Flipping is when you try to get someone to cooperate so you can identify other members of the conspiracy.
01:13:26.560As you guys know, the drug trade is a compartmentalized, large-scale conspiracy where you have people that are distributors, transporters, money launderers, you know, sources of supply, etc.
01:13:40.740You have different roles in a drug traffic organization and it's very compartmentalized where individuals might not necessarily know who's in the drug trafficking organization all the time.
01:13:50.120So, you ask them, where are these drugs designated?
01:13:52.660Especially when they get a big package, nine out of ten times, it's not for their personal use.
01:13:56.780They're going to distribute it to other people.
01:14:07.880Okay, I was going to distribute it to here, I was going to distribute it to here, I was going to drop it here, I was going to give it to one of my workers, whatever.
01:14:13.140And then it's up to the case agent how far they want to take it and how much they want to expand the investigation.
01:14:19.620That is how a controlled delivery is done.
01:14:24.120Give me ones in the chat if that made sense.
01:14:25.880Give me twos in the chat if it didn't make sense.
01:14:29.220It could be more complicated than that, but I was going very surface level there.
01:14:32.240And you could do a controlled delivery with anything.
01:14:38.480You could do it with, hell, I did a controlled delivery one time with illegal aliens, which that's a whole other story.
01:14:44.140I might have to do an episode for y'all on that one.
01:16:25.600To attract the attention of thousands of drug dealers and buyers, but also politicians like
01:16:31.220Senator Chuck Schumer, who called for the site to be shut down.
01:16:34.120The U.S. government was concerned, but not only about drug sales.
01:16:38.040As Nick Bilton detailed in his book, American Kingpin, Homeland Security agent Duryagian feared that a terrorist organization could enter the country and then buy something from Silk Road to harm Americans.
01:16:48.860He convinced the U.S. attorney's office in Chicago to take on the case.
01:16:53.040As Silk Road came into the spotlight, Ulbricht's college friend, Richard, who helped him with programming, said he urged him to shut it down.
01:16:59.180I'm giving you a little bit more sauce.
01:17:01.420Also, guys, I need you guys to like the video because we only got 869 likes.
01:17:11.180I've done multiple, actually, control deliveries.
01:17:12.720The other thing I want to say also, guys, is notice how he said he had to go to the U.S. attorney's office and convince them to take the case.
01:17:21.780I want to one more time for all the new viewers.
01:17:24.040Federal prosecutors, guys, are divas a lot of times.
01:17:26.120They don't have to take every case that comes across their desk.
01:17:28.060This is why the feds almost never lose because the AUSAs, Assistant United States Attorneys, by the way, not to be confused with Assistant District Attorneys, ADAs, which are their federal counterparts.
01:17:38.220AUSAs have the privilege of taking on cases that they want to take.
01:17:41.660They don't have to take on cases, all cases.
01:17:43.880They only take on the ones that they want that they feel that they can win, okay?
01:17:46.620So with that said, he obviously had to go in there and say, look, I've identified this or this online website that is transporting drugs, et cetera.
01:17:54.020This is a national security risk because they can go ahead and traffic other things outside of drugs, you know, exploitation of children, weapons, et cetera, and this can be a problem.
01:18:05.020And I ended up, luckily, the U.S. attorney ended up taking a case.
01:18:07.340But I say all that, guys, because I've been in those boardrooms with, you know, me, my supervisor, and my ASAC, and then I'm sitting across from the U.S. attorney and, you know, two or three of his best AUSAs, and I'm talking to them about a case.
01:18:20.840And I'm like, look, we need you guys to do X, Y, Z, because a lot of the times the United States Attorney's Office, they don't want to take cases that they're not 100% sure that they're going to win.
01:18:28.680They only take cases that they know that they're going to win.
01:18:30.300This is why the feds never lose, right?
01:18:31.860They might say something like, oh, just give it to the state or we're not interested, blah, blah, blah.
01:18:35.500They absolutely have the right of refusal.
01:18:37.300So obviously this agent had to go ahead and convince the U.S. attorney's office to take the case.
01:18:42.500But I just wanted to make sure that we highlight that because a lot of people think that the feds take every single case that comes across their table.
01:18:49.200The answer is no, they actually don't.
01:18:50.900They take a very small percentage of cases.
01:18:52.840The average AUSA in the United States only carries about 15 cases, guys, versus if you take the average ADA in a major city, they have hundreds of cases.
01:19:00.060Why? They're dealing with DUIs, they're dealing with everything, you know, they're dealing with fucking a stupid disorderly conduct case all the way up to murder, right?
01:19:07.300Because the state has a wide array of crimes that they could prosecute, and local police are making way more arrests than federal agents.
01:19:14.260So that is why their case backlogged, the state is almost always way more backlogged than the feds are, okay?
01:19:20.500Typically they don't want to allocate federal resources to small level crimes.
01:19:24.120They only typically go after felonies, not misdemeanors, okay?
01:21:36.800It became somewhat of a competition amongst the various government agencies to be the one to identify Dread Pirate Roberts.
01:21:42.840To better understand how Silk Road operated, Department of Homeland Security agent Duryegian posed as a buyer and made 52 undercover purchases.
01:21:51.480He also seized thousands of packages, linked certain sales back to their source, and arrested several people.
01:30:08.460Maybe it might be better from an appreciation standpoint, right, where you're going to be able to enjoy more appreciation over time because Bitcoin is more volatile.
01:30:15.840So, you'll be able to enjoy a bit more appreciation.
01:30:17.700But at the same time, you can get a lot of depreciation.
01:30:21.120It could absolutely lose value as well, right?
01:30:23.100And you don't get cash flow from cryptocurrency unless, like, you're hedging it or something like that.
01:31:05.720But the feds aren't going to do, like, a cigarette smuggling or a cigar case a lot of the times unless the individuals are really involved in some shit.
01:31:14.680Matter of fact, go watch the episode I did.
01:31:16.420I did an episode, guys, on a cigarette smuggling case that Hezbollah was involved in in North Carolina back in the 90s.
01:31:24.480Actually, one of my favorite episodes that I did.
01:31:26.560Go check that out if you guys want to see a scenario where it's a case.
01:31:31.980A scenario where a charge that normally would never be charged was applied in this case because the targets were obviously involved in some very nefarious activity.
01:32:04.440Hey, Myron, when you develop enough passive income from your assets generally, what does your active income come from?
01:32:09.280Does it become entrepreneurial by nature or do you revert to a supervisor position?
01:32:12.960In other words, what do you do after financial freedom?
01:32:16.480Well, that's the key word in freedom, my friend, whatever you want.
01:32:19.180You can continue to do your entrepreneurial ventures and keep your active income coming in.
01:32:22.500I suggest you keep doing your entrepreneurial ventures and still continue to acquire earned income because the more earned income you get, the more you can invest into your passive income and just continue to grow that passive income to the point where you're making as much as your earned income.
01:32:48.780But that's where you want to be, guys, so that if, God forbid, something happens, you're making as much money passively as you did when you were actively working.
01:32:58.580God forbid you get sick, you need to take time off, you need to take care of a family member or whatever it may be, you're still able to provide for the people you care about regardless of you not working.
01:33:08.600That's the whole key of being financially free, guys, being able to do whatever you want to do and being able to be around those that you love and take care of those that you love whether you're working or not.
01:33:26.500Y'all want the phone lines open, y'all got to like the video.
01:33:30.220When he tracked down a Dread Pirate Roberts employee, a moderator on Silk Road's user forums going by the name Cirrus, he forced her to hand over her account, and then he pretended to be her.
01:33:40.900Duryegian posing as Cirrus got assignments directly from Dread Pirate Roberts.
01:33:45.480He wasn't the only federal agent chatting with a Silk Road boss.
01:33:49.380DEA agent Carl Force was part of a task force in Baltimore that was also investigating.
01:33:54.140Force used the username Knob and posed as a drug dealer, originally from the Dominican Republic, who smuggled millions of dollars worth of cocaine and heroin into the U.S. every year.
01:34:04.740He was on friendly terms with Dread Pirate Roberts, who had no idea he was speaking with a DEA agent, an agent who, in a twist of the tale, turned out to be corrupt.
01:34:14.340So you guys see here that you've got two different agencies working the same case, and they don't even know it yet.
01:34:20.460This is where deconfliction comes in later on, but I'll explain that.
01:34:22.680But let's keep going so I don't interrupt.
01:34:24.060Forrest convinced Dread Pirate Roberts to pay him $50,000 in Bitcoin by claiming he had insider information from a government employee.
01:34:36.620When Forrest reported the conversation to the DEA, he claimed he never received any payment, when in fact, he funneled the Bitcoin into a personal account.
01:34:52.540When Silk Road customer support rep Curtis Clark Green was arrested at his home with a kilo of Coke, Bridges used Green's admin access to steal 20,000 Bitcoin from other user accounts.
01:35:03.700Dread Pirate Roberts thought Green to be responsible for the theft.
01:35:07.080He wanted to rough him up and got egged on by his mentor, Variety Jones.
01:51:37.200...on his computer, and had recently returned home from Australia, which made not having a cell phone less suspicious.
01:51:43.260Joshua kept to himself, and ate steak dinners for one.
01:51:47.540When the agents questioned Ulbricht, they observed that he became visibly nervous.
01:51:52.100He didn't admit to purchasing the fake IDs, let alone that he bought them so he could rent additional servers to deal with Silk Road's growth, as well as security issues.
01:52:00.580Prosecutors later claimed he prepared for a life on the run, including seeking citizenship on the island of Dominica.
01:52:06.000Ulbricht volunteered to the agents who showed up at his door that, hypothetically, anyone could purchase anything they wanted on a site called Silk Road.
01:52:14.540The agents had never heard of Silk Road, and were apparently unaware of any federal investigations.
01:52:22.040So when IRS agent Gary Alford ran another search on Ulbricht, he found that Homeland Security file on the fake IDs, which cemented his belief that they had the right guy.
02:13:39.820Let's pull up the website, too, Bills.
02:13:41.020Yeah. So it generated approximately $1.2 billion in sales and $80 million in commissions. And also on November 3rd of 2020, law enforcement seized over $1 billion worth of digital currency from this case. So that was three years ago.
02:14:00.200And there is also something here. They actually got a person, a guy named James Ellison, a.k.a. red and white, with narcotics trafficking and money laundering offenses in connection with his sales of large quantities of narcotics on the Silk Road online marketplace. And in connection with this, he claimed that he arranged for the murder of five people for Silk Road funders.
02:14:30.200And he was paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in Bitcoin back then.
02:14:37.200All right. Let's pull up this website here real fast. As you guys can see, this is, I think, the petition website to get him freed.
02:15:11.160And then they showed the sentencing disparity, right?
02:15:13.680You can see all the people that were Silk Road defendants that got, you know, seven years, three and a half, six years, 17 months, three years, five and a half years, 13 and a half years.
02:15:22.700Co-owner for Roger Clark, Karl Mark, right?
02:16:22.500So I think that's a little wild for him to get life.
02:16:24.240I think that's a very hard punishment for nonviolent offenses.
02:16:27.840But the way that they're looking at it is he facilitated the ability for violent drug offenders to do what they do or violent criminals to do what they do.
02:16:36.860Because remember, guys, the website sold a bunch of shit besides just drugs.
02:18:35.160King Derulo, Myron, when working at a specific position for the bureau and eventually you want to transfer to another position in the bureau, such as Intel Analyst, can I transfer internally or do I have to go through a manual application process?
02:18:47.180You'll probably have to manually apply like everybody else, but since you're already in the bureau, it'll be a lot easier for you to transition over to agent or Intel Analyst.
02:18:53.760Just keep in mind that you're probably going to have to go back to Quantico because Intel Analyst, I know, go to the academy for a few months and then agents go for a few months as well.
02:19:01.660But Analyst is less than agent in training.
02:19:03.620Owl Boys, any updates on getting the channels re-monetized?