Silk Road website creator gets life in prison for drug plot

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – The accused mastermind behind the underground website Silk Road was sentenced on Friday to life in prison for orchestrating a scheme that enabled more than $200 million of anonymous online drug sales using the digital currency bitcoin.

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Silk Road website creator gets life in prison for drug plot