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Man gets 12 years in prison after trying to buy deadly chemical weapon with bitcoin: 'I plan to use it soon'
A Missouri man who used the cryptocurrency bitcoin to try to buy a highly lethal chemical weapon that could kill 300 people told the would-be seller, “I plan to use it soon,” federal authorities said Tuesday. Writings found in the Columbia home of the man, Jason William Siesser, “articulated Siesser’s heartache, anger and resentment over a breakup, and a desire for the person who caused the heartache to die,” the Justice Department said in a press release. Siesser, 46, was sentenced to 12 years in prison on Tuesday after pleading guilty in August to attempting to acquire that weapon and to aggravated ... (full story)