So what we are saying here is that there might be actual modern burried pirate treasure somewhere. Awesome.
What's unfortunate for DPR is that, even if there is a pirate's booty out there, the whole murder for hire thing and being an accessory, if not a patricipant, in a massive amount of drug trafficking makes it very likely that he will spend a large chunk, if not the rest of his life, in prison, making the 80 mil all but unusable to him.
he can buy a lot of cigarettes
I would think he could get some very high quality legal representation w/ $80 million lurking out there. Although it might be complicated by the fact that he won't be allowed out on pre-trial release. And let's face it; he could very well be the fall guy for the originators of Silk Road and not the "real" Dread Pirate Roberts at all.
As far as I'm concerned, the murder-for-hire thing is bullshit.
If I may ask - why do you think so?
As far as i'm concerned the whole libertarian crusader thing was bullshit.
I'm pretty sure it was a reference to Breaking Bad character Walter White burying his $80mm dollars in barrels in the ground somewhere in the deserts of New Mexico.
Spoilers much?
Oof, sorry! Didn't think about spoiler tags on HN.