Prosecutors Want Evidence Against Bridges Kept Sealed As Investigation Continues; Additional Bitcoin Theft Claimed
Federal prosecutors say details about the second arrest of Shaun Bridges, a former U.S. Secret Service agent charged with stealing in the Silk Road investigation, must remain sealed, in part, because they believe there are one or more co-conspirators, according to a filing in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. Authorities charged Bridges and former DEA agent Carl Force with stealing from Silk Road during the investigation following the trial and conviction of Ross Ulbricht, the mastermind of the online drug marketplace who went by the name, “Dread Pirate Roberts.”....
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The former Secret Service agent convicted in the theft of Bitcoin from the Silk Road during their investigation is accused of stealing even more than previously thought. According to newly released documents, Shaun Bridges, one of two federal agents caught stealing during the Silk Road investigations, is accused by prosecutors of stealing an additional $700,000 worth of Bitcoin. Bridges is currently serving a 71-month prison sentence for the initial theft. Government knew Bridges had access to the seized Bitcoin. According to the recently released documents, the Department of Justice knew....
The US government believes that a former Secret Service agent convicted of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars in bitcoin during the investigation of Silk Road may have been involved with additional thefts from the now-defunct online dark market. Ex-Secret Service agent Shaun Bridges was sentenced to nearly six years in federal prison after pleading guilty last year to money laundering and obstruction charges tied to the theft of more than $800,000 in bitcoin from the Silk Road during the US government’s investigation. Bridges was re-arrested in late January on suspicion that he was....
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.....
New documents unsealed in the ongoing case between the US government and a former Secret Service agent convicted of stealing bitcoins during the Silk Road investigation allege that additional thefts may have taken place. Shaun Bridges was one of two former US federal agents accused of going rogue during the investigation of the Silk Road, the now-defunct dark market. At the time, the US government alleged that Bridges stole as much as $800,000 in bitcoin seized from the Silk Road. Bridges plead guilty last summer to money laundering and wire fraud charges, and was sentenced to roughly six....
Shaun Bridges, a former Secret Service agent who stole more than $800,000 worth of bitcoins during the investigation into darknet marketplace Silk Road, has been sentenced to 71 months in prison. In June, Bridges pleaded guilty to siphoning off the bitcoins from Silk Road before moving them an account on Mt. Gox. At the sentencing in San Francisco, U. S. District Judge Richard Seeborg called the theft "an extremely serious crime consisting of the betrayal of public trust from a public official" and concluded that "a high-end sentence" was warranted, according to Ars Technica. Prosecutors....