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pitaj01/22/20251 replyview on HN

> He did also try to get someone killed.

He was not convicted of that.


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osrec01/22/2025

Regardless, but my point stands - he was heading down a bad path.

Quoting from Wikipedia: The district court found by a preponderance of the evidence that Ulbricht probably commissioned the murders.[41] The possibility that Ulbricht had commissioned murders was considered by the judge in sentencing Ulbricht to life and was a factor in the Second Circuit's decision to uphold the sentence.