Alleged Silk Road ‘murders-for-hire’ merchant hit with narcotics, money laundering charges

Reported by Rohan Goswami James Ellingson allegedly dealt cocaine, LSD, ecstasy and marijuana on Ross Ulbricht’s Silk Road marketplace, and accepted more than $500,000 worth of bitcoin from Ulbricht to carry out a series of murders which he might not have completed, Manhattan federal prosecutors said Thursday. Ellingson, who allegedly used the alter egos “redandwhite,” “MarijuanaIsMyMuse” and […]