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2023 <Silk Road>'s Second-in-Command Gets 20 Years in Prison https://www.wired.com/story/silk-road-variety-jones-sentencing/

2016 "Exclusive: Our Thai prison interview with the alleged top advisor to <Silk Road>" https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/09/exclusive-our-thai-prison-interview-with-an-alleged-top-advisor-to-silk-road/

2015 The Variety Show On the trail of the man believed to be Variety Jones, one of the architects of the defunct drug marketplace Silk Road. https://www.vice.com/en/article/wnx5qn/the-variety-show

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/file/797251/download some kind of case file of his trial.

Bibliography:
* https://darknetlive.com/post/variety-jones-trivia-f5bf87ce Variety Jones Trivia
* https://antilop.cc/sr/

The curious thing about VJ is that he actually has some culture and says cool things, e.g.:
> IRL - is there anyone with a clue at all? Girlfriend, boyfriend, bunny you talk to, online buddy's who you've know for years? Gramma, priest, rabbi, stripper?

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