technically it was for hiring someone to murder a guy. Or are you implying that was entrapment?
edit: i stand corrected
edit: i stand corrected
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Ulbricht#Silk_Road,_arres...
Or are you just trying to manipulate public opinion?
It was explicitly a sentencing factor; the way federal criminal sentencing guidelines work, the charge sets the outer bound of punishment and influences the sentencing calculation, but other sentencing factors play a significant, often overwhelming, role in determining the actual sentence, so it's not at all inaccurate to say that a person is serving time for all of the things weighed in sentencing.
> On the last day of trial, Serrin Turner, the NY lead prosecutor, addressed the jury and stated that none of the six contracted murders-for-hire allegations occurred.
from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Ulbricht
It seems like it would be unlikely to take the murder-for-hire allegations into account in the sentencing after the prosecution have already stated that they were false allegations.
(1) Ones that cite no other source and should be viewed as extremely unreliable, and
(2) Ones that cite some other source, which should be reviewed and evaluated to assess the claim.
The one you point to is in the latter category, and cites as it's support a Guardian article which describes be prosecutor not as claiming that the six attempts to procure murders for hire had not occurred, but that he did not believe any of the murders Ulbricht had attempted to procure had occurred.
Do you have anything from a legitimate source on this? I'd like to read more. My understanding of this entire thing came largely from brief news reports on it.
I recall reading that the FBI had admin access to the site at the time the incriminating messages were sent, which I'm still looking for a source for, so it's quite likely that the messages were sent by the corrupt agents. Particularly when you consider the libertarian ideology around Ross and the site in general. Soliciting a murder would be completely out of character.
For what it's worth, the FBI agents on that case ended up going to jail as well. The case was a huge mess.