Empire Market Co-Creator Sentenced to 40 Years Over $430M Dark Web Bazaar

A co-creator of darknet marketplace Empire Market has been sentenced to 40 years in federal prison, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Illinois said Wednesday. Raheim Hamilton, 30, of Suffolk, Virginia, was sentenced Monday by U.S. District Judge Steven C. Seeger in Chicago, and fined $5 million. He pleaded guilty earlier this year to a drug conspiracy charge. Hamilton co-owned and operated Empire Market with Thomas Pavey from 2018 to 2020. In that time, the site facilitated more than four million transactions between vendors and buyers worth more than $430 million.

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