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In 'Silk Road' Trial, FBI Paints Picture Of 'True Drug Empire'

NPR
Published January 16, 2015 at 3:45 PM CST

The Silk Road was an online anonymous black market for buying and selling illegal drugs. The FBI shut it down in 2013 and now the man accused of running that billion-dollar drug market is on trial. Audie Cornish speaks with Wired reporter Andy Greenberg.

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