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Drug Dealers Targeted in Sweep of Illicit Online Marketplaces

FILE — Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 24, 2018. More than 35 people were accused of selling drugs on the so-called dark web, the first time that prosecutors targeted sellers rather than marketplace operators. “Criminals who think that they are safe on the Darknet are wrong,” Rosenstein said in a statement. (Tom Brenner/The New York Times)