and in light of these new charges against these two federal agents these two federal agents were spearheading the silk road task force for the dea and secret service in baltimore. and they were corrupt allegedly and they were allegedly creating fictitious user names and stealing money and blackmailing dread pirate roberts and instigating murder for hire. there was a lot of corruption coming to light and makes it far more difficult to understand whether ross is or in fact not guilty. i think more safer thing to say is did ross get a fair trial? does he get a fair investigation? it s hard to say if he did in light of these charges. what is it with the dark web now or silk road and the idea that there is more than one dread pirate roberts? well the dread pirate roberts was a fictitious user name. there was a lot of speculation there was more than one even at that time that many different people were using dread pirate roberts account and it was really kind of a sort of a front