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> >Ross was not convicted of selling drugs or illegal items himself, but was held responsible for what others sold on the site. I'm pretty sure that running an
by vkou 4y ago
> >Ross was not convicted of selling drugs or illegal items himself, but was held responsible for what others sold on the site.
I'm pretty sure that running an illegal drug marketplace is also illegal.
- borski 4y agoSure, but that alone shouldn’t net someone two life sentences. Hiring a hit man to kill 5 people might.
- vkou 4y agoIf you can get five to ten years for selling a few thousand pills of fentanyl, it stands to reason that you may get fifty or thereabouts for running a marketplace where hundreds of such sales took place. I'd also say that there's a significant moral difference between a first time offender, and a 'first time caught offender'. Al Capone and Bernie Madoff were also 'first time offenders' when they went to prison. You don't whoops one-time-bad-lapse-of-judgement stumble into running a gang, a decade-long fraud... Or the biggest drug marketplace in the world.