Corrupt Silk Road DEA Agent Facing 7 Years in Prison
Carl Force, a 46 year old member of Baltimore’s Silk Road task force and former U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent who plead for for an agreement with prosecutors back in June is set to be sentenced on October 19, at the US District Court for the Northern District of California. A few months ago, Force was accused of abusing his DEA powers to illegally seize funds in a bitcoin exchange called CoinMKT and transferring bitcoins seized from the Silk Road investigation to his personal bitcoin and bank accounts in China. For a few weeks during the covert investigation, Force provided....
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Former U. S. federal agent Carl Force has been sentenced to 78 months in prison. The sentence is substantially more than the four years of prison time sought by his attorneys while less than the 87-month prison sentence requested by U. S. prosecutors. After pleading guilty to bitcoin theft and extortion during the government investigation of dark web drug marketplace Silk Road, rogue federal agent Carl Force IV has been sentenced to six and a half years in prison after admitting to charges of money laundering, extortion and obstruction of justice. Force's defense claimed mental health....
This piece has been updated with additional information about the case and a correction to a quote attributed to Judge Richard Seeborg. Corrupt federal agent Carl Force IV has been sentenced to 78 months, or six and a half years, in federal prison. The sentence is less than the 87-month sentence the US government had requested for the former Drug Enforcement Agency agent. Force was part of a Baltimore, Maryland-based federal task force investigating the online dark market Silk Road. As part of the task force he worked undercover on the Silk Road under the alias "Nob", developing a....
Variety Jones, believed by some to be the Silk Road architect and a mentor to Ross Ulbricht, claims a corrupt FBI agent has threatened him for not agreeing to help him access a bitcoin wallet worth $70 million, according to a report by digital journalist Joseph Cox in Motherboard. Jones says the agent wants him to move to Singapore where he will set up a safe house and told him immigration police are hunting him in Thailand where he lives. The agent had previously leaked Jones secret grand jury information and also tipped him ahead of the investigations into Carl Mark Force and Shaun....
A corrupt FBI agent is planning to extort $71m from Silk Road mastermind Ross Ulbricht, according to new allegations from a former Silk Road advisor. In a forum post issued this weekend and later publicized by Motherboard, Variety Jones, an account understood to belong to one of Silk Road's key advisors, released details of his alleged correspondence with an agent known as 'Diamond'. In it, he claims the FBI employee - a seasoned extortioner - has obtained a forgotten Silk Road wallet said to contain more than 300,000 BTC ($71.4m), and that he sought to use blackmail and torture as a means....
Carl Mark Force IV was sentenced to 6.5 years in prison today. While Force's defense asked for a sentence beneath statutory guidelines as it contended that Force's behavior was caused by alcoholism and mental health issues, Judge Richard Seeborg is said to have been highly skeptical of this excuse. In addition to the prison sentence, Force will need to pay $340,000 in restitution. Thanks to Motherboard's Sarah Jeong (@sarahjeong) for reporting on the scene. The U. S. District Court for the Northern District of California is set to sentence 46-year-old Silk Road investigator Carl Mark Force....