Quote from: LeFBI on July 22, 2011, 03:01:41 PM

Angry mob: you should read my offer and comments again...carefully. All perfectly legal.

It's not, acting as an intermediary makes you an accessory by legal definition
Accessory to conspiracy to commit murder and abetting a felony makes your offer a federal crime even before anything has taken place

Just because you don't make the hit doesn't mean you aren't criminally liable
http://topics.law.cornell.edu/wex/accessory_before_the_fact

See the Supreme Court ruling on Standefer vs. the United States
http://supreme.justia.com/us/447/10/case.html

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A defendant accused of aiding and abetting in the commission of a federal offense may be convicted after the named principal has been acquitted of an offense:
(1) principals in the first degree who actually perpetrated the offense;
(2) principals in the second degree who were actually or constructively present at the scene of the crime and aided or abetted its commission;
(3) accessories before the fact who aided or abetted the crime, but were not present at its commission;
(4) accessories after the fact who rendered assistance after the crime was complete.