Silk Road website founder loses appeal of conviction, life sentence| Reuters

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By Jonathan Stempel | NEW YORK NEW YORK Ross Ulbricht, the accused mastermind behind the underground Silk Road website for the sale of illegal ***** to customers worldwide, failed to persuade a federal appeals court to overturn his conviction and life sentence.The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan on Wednesday rejected Ulbricht's claim that he was denied a fair trial because he could **t introduce evidence of corruption by two federal agents involved in his probe.It also rejected the 33-year-old Ulbricht's claim that his prison term of life with ** possibility of parole, was too long.The three-judge panel cited the "staggering" $183 million of illegal ***** sold on Silk Road from 2011 to 2013, and a lower court's finding it more likely than **t that Ulbricht arranged at least five murders for hire to protect Silk Road's a**nymity."That he was able to distance himself from the actual violence he paid for by using a computer to order the killings is **t mitigating," Circuit Judge Gerard Lynch wrote in a 139-page decision

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