DEA and Secret Service Agents Steal Bitcoin from Silk Road
According to the New York Times, a Secret Service agent and a former member of the DEA will be indicted on charges of stealing bitcoins during the course of the Silk Road investigation. Silk Road criminal investigation leads to Bitcoin theft. Working undercover, former agents Carl Mark Force IV, who worked for the Drug Enforcement Administration, and Shaun Bridges, who worked for the Secret Service, will be facing charges for wire fraud, money laundering and stealing government property (Force only). The amount of bitcoins stolen is unknown, but apparently the seizure from Silk Road makes....
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More of the Silk Road scandal has been revealed following the release of a criminal complaint on Monday in federal court. The complaint filed on March 25, 2015 charges two former US federal agents who investigated Silk Road with stealing bitcoin, extorting money from the defendant, and a string of other criminal charges. Former Secret Service agent Shaun Bridges of Baltimore, Maryland, and former D.E.A. agent Carl Force of Laurel, Maryland have been charged with wire fraud and money laundering. Agent Force was also charged with theft of government property and conflict of interest.
Two former federal agents who helped bring down the online black marketSilk Road have been convicted of wire fraud, money laundering, and stealing Bitcoins during the federal investigations of Silk Road. The two agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration and the U. S. Secret Service have been identified as Carl Force, 46 years old, resident of Baltimore and associated with the DEA, and Shaun Bridges, 32 years old, resident of Laurel, Maryland who works with the U. S. Secret Service as a special agent. The federal government took down the underground illicit market commonly known as....
The ex-Secret Service agent convicted of stealing bitcoin during Silk Road investigation may haves stolen another $700,000 in bitcoin from the Secret Service. It has been over a year since the news about the involvement of two law enforcement agents from the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and US Secret Service in the theft of bitcoin belonging to Silk Road hit the stands. Shaun Bridges, the convicted ex-Secret Service agent is again in the news for allegedly stealing $700,000 worth of bitcoin after he pled guilty the first time. Shaun Bridges is currently serving a six-year sentence....
In March of 2015, two federal agents who helped conduct one of the major investigations in the Silk Road case allegedly stole thousands in bitcoin confiscated from the online dark marketplace. The two agents, Shaun Bridges and Carl Force from the Drug Enforcement Administration and the U. S. Secret Service, were charged with several offenses including wire fraud and money laundering. This week, Bridges, a special agent for the U. S. Secret Service for the Silk Road case, has come to an agreement with the prosecutors and pleaded guilty for the theft of confiscated bitcoin from Silk Road.....
The crackdown on Silk Road by United States federal agents yielded a fortune in bitcoins along with the founder Ross Ulbricht and two more federal agents as an added bonus on a later date. Ross Ulbricht is currently serving his 20 year prison sentence in one of the US prisons for running the dark internet marketplace which sold anything from drugs to guns for hire (the guns for hire part is still debatable and hasn't been proven by the prosecutors in the case yet). The crackdown on Silk Road was achieved as part of a joint operation between US Federal Bureau of Investigation and the US....