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No, it was not.

• mikeash 11y ago
  Yes, it was: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9627200 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9627200 Or if you want to go straight to the source, see item 10b on page 5 of: http://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/usao-sdny/legacy/2015/03/25/US%20v.%20Ross%20Ulbricht%20Indictment.pdf http://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/usao-sdny/legacy/... As far as I can tell, the only reason people are saying he wasn't convicted of murder for hire is because the top-level charge is "conspiracy" or somesuch, with "murder for hire" as one of the specific conspiracy items, and they haven't dug down.