The chief federal law enforcement officer for eight contiguous New York counties, an office of the United States Department of Justice established by the Judiciary Act of 1789. The office, under the name "Manhattan U.S. Attorney," announced the indictment of Ross Ulbricht, creator of the Silk Road marketplace, and prosecuted the resulting case in the Southern District of New York. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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1. Wikipedia: United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York
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The United States attorney for the Southern District of New York is the chief federal law enforcement officer in eight contiguous New York counties.
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Established by the Judiciary Act of 1789, the office represents the United States government in criminal and civil cases across the country.
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On 6 November 2014, authorities with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Europol, and Eurojust announced the arrest of Blake Benthall, allegedly the owner and operator of Silk Road 2.0 under the pseudonym "Defcon", the previous day in San Francisco as part of Operation Onymous. The creator of the relaunched website-an English computer programmer named Thomas White-was also arrested in the course of the shutdown, but his arrest was not made public until 2019 after he pled guilty to charges stemming from running the website and was sentenced to five years in prison.
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