Officials said that a Camden County New Jersey man pleaded guilty on February 2 to using cryptocurrency bitcoin to hire a hit man through a Darknet murder-for-hire site.
U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced John Michael Musbach’s guilty plea before U.S. District Judge Joseph H. Rodriguez in Camden federal court. He was charged with one count of knowingly and intentionally using and causing another to use a facility of interstate and foreign commerce, that is the internet, with the intent to commit a murder.
Musbach, 31, spent 40 bitcoins, the equivalent of $20,000, in 2016 on a website that offered to facilitate contract killings, officials claim.
U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced Musbach’s guilty plea before U.S. District Judge Joseph H. Rodriguez in Camden federal court. He was charged with one count of knowingly and intentionally using and causing another to use a facility of interstate and foreign commerce, that is the internet, with the intent to commit a murder.
Musbach was targeting a 14-year-old who allegedly exchanged sexual photographs with him online.
