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That's just false legally. Since the attempted hits were formed part of the criminal conspiracy, the judge was allowed to consider them in sentencing. He was not sentenced FOR attempted murder, but the judge took the attempts to hire hitmen into account when sentencing him on the criminal conspiracy charges. In other words, she was trying to assess "how bad" of a criminal conspiracy he was involved in, and the fact that he attempted to have people killed shows that it was pretty damn bad. Like it or not, that is ok, legally speaking.