Silk Road
The reach and anonymity of these 21st century Internet operations is difficult to penetrate, there are no banking records for investigators to subpoena
Global crackdown on so-called Darknet sites that sell illegal drugs is one of the largest stings against the virtual organized crime world
Man confessed to operating a spinoff version of the shuttered website, which enabled more than 100K people to buy and sell illegal drugs over the Internet
Investigations of Liberty Reserve and the hidden website Silk Road, a vast black-market bazaar for narcotics, demonstrate how virtual currency is attracting a legion of flesh-and-blood criminals