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[–] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 7 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

He paid money to have people killed in order to protect his profits

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/silk-road-drug-vendor-who-claimed-commit-murders-hire-silk-road-founder-ross-ulbricht

The fact that he wasn't convicted of it doesn't mean it didn't happen

[–] Glitterbomb@lemmy.world 1 points 10 minutes ago (1 children)

Speaking of convicted, pretty sure at least two of the FBI agents assigned to investigate him WERE convicted and sent to jail for personally stealing funds from silk road during the investigation. The whole thing was mishandled from the beginning and the people he 'ordered to kill' weren't even real people, they were fake identities created by the same FBI agents that were posing as the hitmen and mishandling evidence. Reeks of entrapment.

[–] ghost_of_faso3@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 4 minutes ago

As always violence is a result of fed involvement, remove them from the picture and everything is fine.