DeSnake has cryptographically proven his identity and there’s never been any indication that he was busted.
Edit: I’m happy to commit to a bet of up to 100k usd on this topic, preferably settled in cryptocurrency.
Even co-opting existing sites for limited periods of time has been controversial, nobody would risk their career doing something this stupid.
An0m wasn’t illegal, provided useful actionable intelligence and didn’t enable anyone to commit crimes.
Running a platform to let anonymous vendors sell credit cards in exchange for untraceable cryptocurrency isn’t really going to be very productive
An0m wasn't illegal because it was operated by LE. But it did enable illegal actions, and the operating LEOs overlooked illegal actions, until enough data was collected on big fish.
An0m did not enable any illegal actions, those same acts would have taken place regardless of An0m.