Ross tried, on multiple occasions, to hire hitmen to kill people he didn't like. I think once you get into wetworks, it no longer counts as "white collar".
Thank goodness he didn't actually succeed.
Fortunately, the people he hired for the assassinations were really just scam artists who conned him out of some money. The prosecution decided that it would not be worth it for the state to pursue murder charges in such an unprecedented scenario.
On the other hand, the assassination attempt was taken into account by the judge for sentencing.
> the assassination attempt was taken into account by the judge for sentencing
There are a whole slew of problems advocating for the ability for judges to sentence people for crimes they were never convicted of.
judges have some discretion when it comes to which end of the minimum/maximum end of the scale to sentence someone convicted of a particular crime, and using facts entered into evidence and never contested when exercising that is pretty standard.