FBI Busts $1.2 Billion Silk Road Illegal Online Marketplace with Ties to Austin

By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News The crazy tale of Ross William Ulbricht, also known as “Dread Pirate Roberts,” after a masked fictional character in the movie “The Princess Bride,” sounds like a HBO series on a renegade Internet entrepreneur gone wrong. Ulbricht, 29, allegedly operated the Silk Road, a sprawling $1.2 billion […]