Bitcoin For Murder: Woman Gets 10 Years In Jail After Paying ‘Hitman’ To Kill...
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 […]
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The case, the website, the circumstances and the source all share parallels with another recent federal murder-for-hire prosecution.
The woman allegedly presented a sum of over $5,000 in bitcoin to a dark web admin as proof she could afford the hit.
Police charged a Cottage Grove, Minn. man with second-degree intentional murder for killing his wife, linking him to a Dark Web plot to pay for her murder before poisoning and shooting her and staging the death as a suicide, according to the South Washington County Bulletin in Cottage Grove, Minn. Bail was set at $1 million for Stephen Carl Allwine, 43, who was held in jail after he appeared Wednesday in Washington County District Court. District Court Judge Susan Miles set the $1 million bail without conditions or $500,000 with condition that he wear a GPS tracking device, remain in....
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A South African tax expert, Thomas Lobban, has warned non-tax paying crypto traders that they now face possible jail time if the South African Revenue Services (SARS) decides to lay tax offense charges against them. He adds that this threat of jail time similarly applies to South African crypto traders that use offshore exchange platforms to trade or store their crypto assets. Lack of Guidance Blamed Lobban’s warning follows reports earlier in the year which suggested that changes to South African tax laws may have made it “easier for SARS to secure criminal convictions for....