Australian Peter Nash to be sentenced over role in Silk Road drug-trafficking website

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Australian Peter Nash to be sentenced over role in Silk Road drug-trafficking website
Peter Mitchell

Los Angeles: US prosecutors have asked a judge to sentence an Australian prison counsellor to a maximum 12.5 years' jail for his role in the massive global drug-trafficking website Silk Road.

Peter Nash, 42, was facing a life sentence when he was arrested by the FBI and Australian authorities in Queensland in December, 2013.

However, prosecutors admitted Nash played a relatively minor role in Silk Road, had entered guilty pleas to drug trafficking conspiracy and money laundering charges and had an impressive history helping people with physical and intellectual disabilities.

"Given Nash's unique circumstances - both in terms of his low-level role and his mitigating personal factors - the government believes that a below-guidelines sentence is appropriate," prosecutors Serrin Turner and Timothy Howard told US District Court judge Thomas Griesa.

Full story: http://www.smh.com.au/world/australian-peter-nash-to-be-sentenced-over-role-in-silk-road-drugtrafficking-website-20150526-gh9jes.html


-- Sydney Morning Herald 2015-05-26

[car720]

I wonder how many years we would have given to Marco Polo?

[sanuk711]

Moderators beware-----......

12.5 years...a little over the top----but hey its America, he could have got 782 years..........................

He is English by the way---although he does hold duel nat, you have to have, to be able to work in certain government jobs prisons etc.

Ever traced the Bitcoin chart against Silk road..........................just in case you are thinking of investing in BitCoin

[lvr181]

I wonder how many years we would have given to Marco Polo?

Hehe..........I remember history - but I wonder how many younger ones understand your comment?

[Ulysses G.]

Prosecutors should be going after drug dealers that cut their product with dangerous or useless substances, not the ones who provide exactly what they say they will and give value for money. This guy should be freed. .

Edited May 26, 2015 by Ulysses G.

[sanuk711]

Prosecutors should be going after drug dealers that cut their product with dangerous or useless substances, not the ones who provide exactly what they say they will and give value for money. This guy should be freed. .

Wow........Ulysses , didn't think we would ever be in agreement with anything other than.....yes its Tuesday.

Yes the site was of course on the dark WEB....& basically was a forum where people who were selling talked to people who were buying......& paid a fee to do so.

Peter is a psychologist who worked in the prisons ----so all his time has been spent in solitary, his crime was to write --- "Australian customs claim they inspect all international mail, either visually, with canine detection, or a scanner" but if vendors prepared their shipments "using non vapor permeable methods" then the chances of packages being scanned by Customs was "approximately nil".

That statement is so secret that it was printed in full in to-days biggest selling newspaper--he would have received maybe a small fine in Australia & that part of his career would be finished, instead because America asked for his extradition he has sat for 18 months in a solitary confinement waiting for his 12 years sentence that will probably be spent the same way.

[Ulysses G.]

I just don't think that any government has the right to tell you what substances you can put into your own body. IMO, the so-called war on drugs is causing a lot more problems than it is stopping. It is a failure anyway.

Edited May 26, 2015 by Ulysses G.

[Tredz]

How many new Silk Road on the darkweb ? a lot of.............

so close one website and after you will find 10 new websites doing the samething !

drug war is waste of time.....................

[sanuk711]

Peter Nash set free

18 months after being arrested in Brisbane, Australian man Peter Philip Nash has been sentenced to time served by a United States judge. That means he is a free man.

Congrats to the American court for seeing the stupidity of the DEA over this arrest of a moderator on the silk road site................

Edited May 28, 2015 by sanuk711

[oxo1947]

That is really "sensible" good news

[sanuk711]

Oops forgot to post the link........................

http://allthingsvice.com/2015/05/27/silk-road-from-the-inside-moderator-ssbd-tells-his-story/