If only ...
they'd stuck to legal and proper banking like the big financial firms do, they'd have walked away scott free with billions.
Shaun Bridges, the light-fingered Secret Service agent who pleaded guilty to scamming SilkRoad while he was investigating the online drugs-and-vulnerabilities marketplace, has copped a six-year sentence for his trouble. US district court judge Richard Seeborg called Bridges' actions, which netted him around US$820,000, a " …
"Since the now-jailed Silk Road kingpin Ross Ulbricht assumed the admin, Curtis Green, was responsible for the theft, Bridges' actions put him in danger of his life"
If Ulbricht had been successful in getting Green killed. would Bridges be facing first degree murder charges?
should he not also be charged with attempted murder because of his actions by association?
"should he not also be charged with attempted murder because of his actions by association?"
Using that logic anyone driving a car with slighlty bald tyres should be charged with attempted murder, because , ya know - you *could* have skidded and killed someone. Just because you didn't....
That was a claim in a swatting case (dial 911 claim you are being robbed and give a false address - the SWAT team break in and shoot the victim) that is was attempted murder
However the prosecutor would have to show that the police SWAT team would likely shoot to kill an unarmed occupant of the house.
No prosecutor wants to upset the police so the case is unlikely to go anywhere
Given the current state of asset forfeiture laws in the U.S. it only need be something of value and could be perfectly legal.
Not a judge, are you ?
I have news for you : the scale depends on the crime.
More news : stealing is generally considered less bad than murder.
That's why the officers usually do not shoot you when they catch you over the speed limit.
Where "life without parole" fits in all this is an exercise I'll leave to your discovery.
Maybe he should have got at least the same sentence as the Silk Road guy, after all he benefitted from it as well and has blackmail, extortion, reckless endangerment, breach of trust and could have derailed other criminal cases
6 years is a pretty light sentence by US standards