Woman jailed after RentaHitman.com assassin turned out to be – surprise – FBI
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This person really tried to put a hit on layaway.
Layaway would mean $100 for kidnapping and $900 later to close the contract. Sounds like a deal until you get the bill for room and board.
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> We are 100% HIPPA Compliant
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(this website is a meme, who would ever believe it??)
common sense, credulity, and being able to place things in contexts, esp. ones you might not know, is also a skill, and arguably what this person was missing.
Like she was able to email and negotiate with the undercovers, she clearly had basic literacy.
In the day of free static hosting and insane amounts of otherwise free computing power, it's hard to believe it's "financially difficult" to serve web page and store what probably is a form submission per week at most.
Also from the website:
> I have purposefully refrained from accepting funds from any source to avoid any misinterpretation.
and in the next paragraph:
> [if you] feel inclined to contribute, you can do so by clicking the SUPPORT link
Guy's weird.
They also pretty clearly specify that “any source” means LEO, governmental agencies and other organizations in the next paragraph.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiPajuyET1w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYBCuU1C1xg
And fun short doc by wavy websurf:
just because the feds never go after anyone with money with their weaker laws doesn't mean their laws represent legality or illegality. you just still might wind up in prison for being indicted and convicted of something illegal.
this changes when you're rich and your rights matter
if they indicted her with a conspiracy charge that could be stronger. but I've seen those get dropped on appeal too specifically with some kind of parody/fan fiction defense.
so what's the difference? it's unresolved.
I'm pretty sure you can claim that in a court. However, making an offline appointment with a hitman and then making them an offer and even making a first down payment for the service is probably difficult to explain away as parody.
Maybe if they started heavily advertising it, sending spam to the same person continuously for months on end.
Even if an undercover cop asked you to hire a hitman and you say yes. Entrapment is more when you say “No” and the government agent keeps on begging you until you give in.
Yea, it’s unsavory, and in some way unfair, in an academic sort of sense. But don’t hire someone to murder someone else, under any circumstances. Right?
The fact that it was a parody site seems amusing, but not defensible, since presumably she was not aware of the parody.
Guess I'm backward as well.
Law Comics did a good job breaking the idea down and dealing with common misconceptions https://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=633
No mention of autistic victims, and they would be odd targets for this scheme.
https://www.rollingstone.com/feature/the-entrapment-of-jesse...
and now remember that most of these people have cell phones and can post on the internet. and vote.
The instances we know for certain about are on FBI recordings of organised crime meeting places and in the details confirmed confessionals of assassin plea deals.
It seems reasonable to conclude there are non-LEO assassins for hire that haven't yet been caught or recorded.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2019/10/25/chinese...