He was facilitating and taking a cut of the profits from dealing. That was the crime, and it's on the books as a crime. You might think this is unjust, if you

He was facilitating and taking a cut of the profits from dealing. That was the crime, and it's on the books as a crime. You might think this is unjust, if you frame laws as just vs. unjust it's much more clear than talking about 'crime in the philosophical sense' which is not a normal way of discussing law.