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Agreed. He willingly engaged with the alleged hitman (which ended up being the FBI contact). He didn't need to do anything or not have the thought to murder others cross his mind.

>>TheAma+(OP)
Allegedly. The 2 rules of his Fight Club were no underage sex stuff and no physical harm. That hitman claim was not part of his charges or sentencing. The heavy sentencing was to like "send a message" the judge said.

>>andirk+c5
They weren't part of his sentencing because a different court entirely was pursuing the hit for hire attempt charge, but because another court in NY got the book thrown at him for running the site, they decided to drop it because it didn't seem necessary anymore.

In hindsight, the prosecution probably wished they didn't do that, since they are said to have had overwhelming evidence and proof, and there is even a Wired article about chat logs pertaining to DPR seeking services, but those are the breaks! If you don't do your due diligence, criminals can be let off on a technicality too!

>>TheAma+N5
I haven't looked into the case(s) for years, but prosecutors don't often just drop charges because other charges were found guilty. People get charged even after life sentences have been handed down.

>>andirk+A6
Perhaps. I can't think of why they ultimately decided not to move forward with it, but here we are.

>>TheAma+97
They dropped the murder for hire charges because discovery would have.. discovered the FBI doing very very bad things.

>>andirk+A6
> I haven't looked into the case(s) for years, but prosecutors don't often just drop charges because other charges were found guilty.

They absolutely do that all the freaking time. Especially when other convictions already result in a long sentence.

Prosecutors have limited bandwidth, and just wasting time adding one more life imprisonment on top of a life imprisonment is not helpful.

>>buckle+1d
I doubt that's the reason. It could simply be bandwidth reasons as another commenter in the thread implied.

>>buckle+1d
Prosecutors do not work for the FBI, and the FBI has no say in who gets prosecuted nor for which charges.

>>WrongA+rt
And you don’t think the prosecutors consider the interests of the FBI when deciding what to prosecute? In cases where they want to use FBI evidence and probably want ongoing cooperation of the FBI for future cases?

>>WrongA+rt
Prosecutors work with, not for, law enforcement and generally do what they reasonably can to maintain a good "working relationship".