Maryland Indictment Says Silk Road Founder Tried To Arrange Murder of Employee

Robotron23 writes "Further charges have been made against Silk Road founder Ross William Ulbricht, aka 'Dread Pirate Roberts'. Yesterday saw the shutdown of Silk Road, a website Ulbricht founded which specialized in the sale of illegal items such as recreational drugs. As well as paying for a hit on a forum member, Ulbricht later requested an undercover agent murder an arrested employee of Silk Road, terming it 'the right move.' Upon receiving staged photos of torture and eventually the corpse, Ulbricht paid in full."

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[Zero__Kelvin]

What part of "Conspiracy to commit murder" do you not understand? Any criminal act that results in the death of another is called felony murder. The FBI was complicit in his crimes, knowing that he is a murderer, and not only did nothing to stop him, but continued to participate in the conspiracy. Any reasonable person would know that he was likely to have someone else killed, and that is known as "Depraved Indifference". Since you don't know anything about the law you should certainly remain silent, and definitely not get snide.