The Silk Road
The Dread Pirate Roberts (Ross Ulbricht)
Variety Jones, consigliere and mentor (Roger Thomas Clark)
Nob, drug dealer and henchman (Carl Force, DEA)
ChronicPain, forum moderator (Curtis Green, Spanish Fork, Utah)
Richard Bates, friend and programmer
OTHER SILK ROAD EMPLOYEES
SameSameButDifferent, Libertas, Inigo, Smedley
Law Enforcement
DHS, CHICAGO
Jared Der-Yeghiayan (undercover as “Cirrus” on the Silk Road)
MARCO POLO TASK FORCE
Carl Force, DEA, Baltimore (undercover as “Nob” on the Silk Road)
Mike McFarland, DHS, Baltimore
Shaun Bridges, Secret Service, Baltimore
FBI, NEW YORK CITY
Chris Tarbell
Thom Kiernan
Ilhwan Yum
IRS, NEW YORK CITY
Gary Alford
U.S. ATTORNEY’S OFFICE, NEW YORK CITY
Serrin Turner, assistant U.S. attorney