A guy who dared to run a marketplace (like ebay) where people and their purchases were private and payments were made with bitcoin.

There were illegal things happening there, including drugs that today are legal, to hitmen which is not of course.

When the US can't find the real criminals, which is most of the time, they go after the platform and they gave ross multiple life sentences for making a website. 

 Oh! He's the SilkRoad guy. Got it, thanks!