What about when his (non-FBI, now-convicted) right-hand-man Roger Thomas Clark convinced him to hire someone for murder?

Surely that can't be entrapment.

"Clark didn't comment on that murder-for-hire conversation—which he at one point claimed had been fabricated by Ulbricht but later conceded was real"

https://www.wired.com/story/silk-road-variety-jones-sentenci...