Dr. James Wan, a Georgia-based physician, entered a guilty plea for using Bitcoin to organize a murder-for-hire plot via the dark web. The sinister plot, which he thought was veiled by the pseudonymous nature of Bitcoin, involved hiring a hitman to make it look like his girlfriend had died in a carjacking gone wrong.
Wan is now awaiting sentencing before a federal court in January 2024.
According to the U.S. Department of Justice, the doctor (no, not the acclaimed director known for the “Saw”…
