article_snippet: Authorities said Silk Road was operated by Ross Ulbricht, 30, under .
article_snippet: A federal jury in Manhattan . found Ross Ulbricht guilty in February of charges including .
article_snippet: But prosecutors said while Force spoke with Ross Ulbricht using .
article_snippet: Using personas to communicate with 'Dread Pirate Roberts.', Force extorted $250,000 from Ross Ulbricht . and later offered to sell an officially sanctioned alias information about the government's . investigation for $100,000, the complaint said.
article_snippet: that Ross Ulbricht paid Ross Ulbricht in under an officially sanctioned alias .
article_snippet: Joshua Dratel, Ulbricht's lawyer, in a statement on Monday . said that prosecutors only revealed information about the 'monumental scandal' five weeks before trial after keeping the . investigation secret for nine months. '
article_snippet: government's investigation of Ulbricht lacked any integrity, . and was wholly and fatally compromised from the inside,' Dratel . said.
article_snippet: Steven Levin, a lawyer for Bridges, said Ulbricht maintains Ulbricht .