omg i'm still digesting it

  The story then went full-on Breaking Bad nuts, with    
  Redandwhite demanding $150,000 for a "non-clean" kill and  
  $300,000 for a "clean" version. Roberts said that he knew 
  the value of such things; he claimed to have paid $80,000 
  for a previous "clean" hit, and he wanted a discount.
  
  Did I say earlier that the story had already gone off the   
  rails into Crazytown? Reader—I was wrong. Because a 
  federal indictment unsealed separately today in a Maryland 
  court says that Roberts had in fact arranged such an 
  $80,000 hit just a few weeks earlier. Not crazy enough? 
  Turns out that the "hitman" in this first attempt was 
  actually a federal agent.

  Roberts was upset that one of his employees—records show 
  these employees were paid between $1,000 and $2,000 a week 
  —had stolen from Roberts and eventually managed to get 
  himself arrested by dealing with an undercover agent. 
  Roberts wanted the employee tortured so that he would    
  return the missing Bitcoins. Not knowing much about 
  hitmen, Roberts ended up talking to the very undercover 
  agent who had helped bust his employee.