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daveguy01/22/20252 repliesview on HN

According to Reuters he was found guilty of "charges including distributing drugs through the Internet and conspiring to commit computer hacking and money laundering." In addition to running an illegal market bazaar for 4 years.


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beezle01/22/2025

What a travesty. Maybe life was too long a sentence but this was far too short.

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slt202101/22/2025

- sackler family engineered opioid crisis and went unscathed - hacking is a bogus charge applied to everything touching PCs - money laundering is another victimless crime that very few actual money launderers gets charged with, for some reason

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