What's the relevance of your comment to the topic?
haha, it still works, the actual hacker gets paid, and the VPN or RPC'd computer in Russia never gets subpoena'd and the real investigation is deflected into thinking about "state sponsored hackers" in Russia, ordered by Putin himself!
"17 Intelligence agencies all agree that [the IP address of the computer used by] the hackers were in Russia, how suspicious that you don't!"