8 Years in Prison for a Doctor Paying $60K in BTC to Dark Web Hitmen

Senior United States District Judge William Fremming Nielsen sentenced the 56-year-old American Ronald Craig Ilg to eight years in federal prison. The latter hired hitmen on the Dark Web to kidnap his...

FTX reveals creditors; U.S. man spends BTC on hitmen

The biggest news in the cryptoverse for Jan. 26 saw defunct crypto exchange FTX reveal its full list of creditors. Elsewhere, a Washington man has been sentenced to prison for hiring hitmen with Bitco...

Dark web hitmen paid $60,000 BTC to kidnap estranged wife

Ronald Craig Ilg — 56, of Spokane, Washington — has been sentenced to 96 months in federal prison for paying over $60,000 Bitcoin (BTC) to dark web hitmen. Ilg paid the hitmen who attempted to kidnap ...

Sting of crypto hitmen: Is crypto being made to fail?

There is trouble in the crypto industry, and the stakes are not appealing. It is human nature to try and explain that which cannot make sense. In this case, many investors are trying to make sense of ...

A Doctor Paid $60K Worth of BTC to Hitmen to Kidnap His Wife

Ronald Craig Ilg – a 55-year-old former neonatologist from Spokane, Washington – admitted to transferring $60,000 worth of bitcoin to multiple hitmen on the Dark Web whose task was to cause severe inj...