Nevada Woman Charged in Bitcoin Murder-for-Hire as a Mystery Hacker Again Tur...
The case, the website, the circumstances and the source all share parallels with another recent federal murder-for-hire prosecution.
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The woman allegedly presented a sum of over $5,000 in bitcoin to a dark web admin as proof she could afford the hit.
Bitcoin is now being used by bad people to satisfy their hate. The U.S. Department of Justice announced Tuesday that a Mississippi woman was sentenced to spend a maximum of 10 years behind bars for her role in an unsuccessful murder-for-hire plot. Forty-year old Jessica Leeann Sledge pled guilty in February to hiring a purported assassin on the […]
The alleged architect of the first Silk Road, known to users as Dread Pirate Roberts and to the government as Ross Ulbricht, is currently facing two separate federal cases. The first is in Baltimore for a single murder-for-hire plot which the government feels it has enough evidence to proceed. The other is in New York for four counts of participation in a narcotics trafficking conspiracy, running a continuing criminal enterprise, computer hacking, and a money laundering conspiracy. Also read: SecondMarket's Bitcoin Investment Trust Syndicate Won 48,000 BTC in Latest Silk Road Bitcoin....
Bryan Micon, operator of the closed down bitcoin-fueled poker site Seals With Clubs, has been charged by the Nevada Attorney General with operating an unlicensed gambling enterprise, and faces up to ten years in prison and a US$50,000 fine. Hoping to be able to cover his legal expenses, Micon has since launched a defense fund. It first became evident that something was amiss at Seals With Clubs in February of this year, as the site indicated it would be shutting down, which was at the time attributed to unspecified operational security concerns. Several days later, Micon uploaded a YouTube....
Photo via Curtis Gregory Perry. Today another illicit deep-web marketplace was shut down, this time by Dutch authorities. Five men were arrested in connection with the Utopia drug marketplace, and 900 bitcoins seized from their homes. Dutch prosecutors claim two of the arrested were also involved in the "Black Market Reloaded" illicit marketplace that went offline late last year. Utopia had only been online for nine days, but already had over 13,000 listings including guns, drugs, and murder-for-hire. The dutch announcement of the seizure brags, "Nobody is untouchable - this mission is a....