Feds: Silk Road pirate king tried to SNUFF customer AND employee

Re: There is an interesting question here

I tend to be concerned about the enticement thing too, but at the end of the day DPR (allegedly) did transfer non-trivial amounts of cash to make the deal. Even then he may well have felt coerced into agreeing to the hit and wished to keep the assassin off his back by paying up.

Re: There is an interesting question here

What are you talking about?

They contacted him about finding a buyer for coke

He contacted them about the assault and again to upgrade the assault to murder, no enticement from law enforcement about that whatsoever.

They may also choose not to charge him relating to the coke buy. Instead just use it as evidence that he definitely was well aware of how his website was being used and charge him for facilitating every other deal that went through the site.

Re: There is an interesting question here

"Would DPR (or whoever else) actually pay for a snuff it was not enticed by said employee."

Given the original criminal complaint had him solicit someone else to be murdered, the answer is probably yes.

"Pics or it didn't happen"

Not that I go around hiring hitmen, but I would imagine this to be a standard requirement. It makes sense for a hitman to hide the body well, if not actually destroy it outright. Without some form of visual proof, how does the buyer know that the hitman didn't just tell the target to disappear?

Re: Unreal

"Pics or it didn't happen". It would almost be funny, if it weren't so unfunny.

I suppose at least it's a step up from doing a Playmobil reconstruction... At least we now know why Lester Haines developed his Playmobil expertise.

It is funny though. And deadly serious at the same time. Assuming the information the FBI have released is mostly accurate, the guy does seem to have thought he was operating in a bad cop show.

I must say, I do love the line, "I'm pissed that I had to kill him... Why can't more people have integrity!"

Re: I just wish more people had some integrity

Yes, he sounds like a lovely chap, glad he's not coming round for dinner.

Re: Ah, bitcoins.

No, as well as contraband dealing and tax fraud, there are a few being held by people who bought on the $240 bubble when the newspapers and TV brought them to light, but they are reluctant to lose $100/bitcoin on liquidating them.

Re: But...

To be fair to the FBI they got very pissed off with the CIA using torture in the early days of the War-on-Terror-thingy. I'm not sure if that's still the case, or whether they've joined in the fun as well now though.