GoKawiilEmpire Market owner Raheim Hamilton sentenced to 40 years for $430M dark web drug sales
Raheim Hamilton, the owner of the now-defunct Empire Market, received a 40-year prison sentence for facilitating over $430 million in illegal transactions on the dark web between 2018 and 2020. The marketplace, which operated as a TOR hidden service, was used primarily for drug sales, including large quantities of fentanyl, cocaine, methamphetamine, and heroin, and attracted over 1.6 million users at its peak.