Bitcoin Crimes To Seal The Fate Of Corrupt Silk Road DEA Agent?
October 19th is the day on which the Bitcoin community is hoping to get justice. On this day, the court is expected to announce the quantum of punishment for former US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) officer Carl Mark Force for his crimes. In July, Carl had pleaded guilty to the charges of extorting a huge number of Bitcoins from the Silk Road's founder Ross Ulbricht (who is currently serving a life imprisonment sentence.) The disgraced Silk Road was actually an unregulated online marketplace from where the buyers could procure drugs by paying with Bitcoin. In the 16-page plea....
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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....
Lawyers representing former Silk Road operator Ross Ulbricht announced via a press conference that they believe they have discovered another corrupt government agent involved in the case. New chat logs unearthed by Ulbricht’s defense reveal an ongoing conversation between the “Dread Pirate Roberts,” Ulbricht’s pseudonym, and “alpacino,” an agent connected with the United States Drug Enforcement Administration. Previously believed to be one of two corrupt government agents already discovered to be involved in the case, these new chat logs, hidden away on a backup server for an obscure....
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....
U.S. District Court in Baltimore, Md. sentenced a Utah man whose faked murder helped law enforcement put an end to the Silk Road Marketplace, according to The Baltimore Sun. The court sentenced Curtis Clark Green, a senior administrator for the Silk Road website, to time served — two days — and four years of supervised release for his role in running the site. Green, 50 was awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute cocaine. Green’s attorney, Scott Williams, said Silk Road owner Ross Ulbricht took advantage of....