Prosecutor release

# DeepDotWeb Administrator Pleads Guilty to Money Laundering Conspiracy

United States Department of Justice, Office of Public Affairs, March 31, 2021. DeepDotWeb: Tal Prihar's guilty plea to conspiracy to commit money laundering and his agreement to forfeit the kickback proceeds.

**Source type:** Prosecutor release

**Published:** March 31, 2021

**Research grade:** P1

**Used in entries:** 1

## Bibliographic record

**Publisher:** United States Department of Justice, Office of Public Affairs

**Published:** March 31, 2021

**Source type:** Prosecutor release

**Research grade:** Source grade P1

**Language:** English

**Official record:** Official publication

**Address:** [https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/deepdotweb-administrator-pleads-guilty-money-laundering-conspiracy](https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/deepdotweb-administrator-pleads-guilty-money-laundering-conspiracy)

**What it supports:** DeepDotWeb: Tal Prihar's guilty plea to conspiracy to commit money laundering and his agreement to forfeit the kickback proceeds

**Dataset id:** src\_doj\_deepdotweb\_prihar\_plea\_2021

## Research notes

- Retrieved through the justice.gov press-release JSON API because justice.gov serves an Akamai bot interstitial to automated fetchers.
- The /opa/pr/ path 301-redirects to /archives/opa/pr/; the archives path recorded here is the canonical one returned by the API.
- The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Pennsylvania published the same release at https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdpa/pr/deepdotweb-administrator-pleads-guilty-money-laundering-conspiracy.

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## Cited by

### Legal actions against people

1 citation

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[Tal Prihar](https://takedownindex.org/people/tal-prihar)

Pleaded guilty, DeepDotWeb domain seizure

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