Speaking of convicted, pretty sure at least two of the FBI agents assigned to investigate him WERE convicted and sent to jail for personally stealing funds from silk road during the investigation. The whole thing was mishandled from the beginning and the people he 'ordered to kill' weren't even real people, they were fake identities created by the same FBI agents that were posing as the hitmen and mishandling evidence. Reeks of entrapment.

Allegedly*

Fact: nobody was actually killed.

Fact: He wasn't convicted, so this is just the government claiming someone they dont like did something without proving it (again the proof lacking is the payments, because nobody died)