> The evidence 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.
If this is what you are referring to...
Commissioning murders makes him quite a dangerous person.
Sam Bankman-Fried defrauded people. He didn’t intentionally create a digital black market, where everything from hit jobs, narcotics, poison, weapons, and human trafficking could (and were) conducted.
And since there are many well-known marketplaces for legal activities (eBay, Craigslist, Kijiji, Facebook Marketplace, AutoTrader.com, need I go on?) then the only defining feature was that this was a black market.
One cannot “accidentally” do this. So yes, aiding and abetting countless crimes and possibly murder —> life sentence.
I mean, the transcripts don't look great even if it turns out that he was actually talking to a FBI agent who never actually did anything about it:
> Dread Pirate Roberts 3/31/2013 8:59: Don't want to be a pain here, but the price seems high. Not long ago, I had a clean hit done for $80k. Are the prices you quoted the best you can do?
> The evidence 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.
If this is what you are referring to...
Commissioning murders makes him quite a dangerous person.