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Feds indict AlphaBay’s PR man

Posted on November 16, 2017 by Dissent

Cyrus Farivar reports:

A 24-year-old man from Illinois has been accused by federal prosecutors of being the spokesman for AlphaBay, the now-defunct online drug marketplace.

On Wednesday, Ronald L. Wheeler III of Streamwood, Ill. was charged in federal court in Atlanta with “conspiracy to commit access device fraud,” according to the Associated Press.

Read more on Ars Technica.


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