He was knowingly enabling murder for hire, human trafficking and really dangerous drug dealing on a mass scale. I have no problem with the sentence.
The allegation was he sanctioned murder for hire, he was never charged with that....and there is no evidence a murder actually took place....
IMO, they made an example of him, which if they were consistent it might be less of a problem...
We have mob bosses that have gotten lighter sentences...
He made the government look like fools and they punished him for that...
Here’s what he was actually charged and convicted of..
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In February 2015, Ulbricht was convicted of money laundering, computer hacking, conspiracy to traffic fraudulent identity documents, and conspiracy to traffic narcotics by means of the internet
No where anywhere was he ever alleged to have engaged in human trafficking....
As to the murder for hire charges, here is what happened....
Federal prosecutors alleged that Ulbricht had paid $730,000 in murder-for-hire deals targeting at least five people,[28] allegedly because they threatened to reveal Ulbricht’s Silk Road enterprise.[35] Prosecutors believe no contracted killing actually occurred.[28] Ulbricht was not charged in his trial in New York federal court with any murder-for-hire,[28][36] but evidence was introduced at trial supporting the allegations.[28][37] 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 affirm the life sentence.[37] A separate indictment against Ulbricht in federal court in Maryland on a single murder-for-hire charge, alleging that he contracted to kill one of his employees (a former Silk Road moderator),[38] was dismissed with prejudice by prosecutors in July 2018, after his New York conviction and sentence became final.[39][40]
Thanks for that. “Almost anything” brought to mind trafficking little kids for sex. Two 40-year sentences is light.