FBI Overstepped Boundaries Again in Silk Road Investigation
The story of Silk Road is far from finished by the look of things. Gary Davis, also known as Libertas on the deep web marketplace, is fighting his extradition to the US. If he is successful in doing so, he will not be charged for his alleged involvement in Silk Road. The FBI strongly feels they have evidence linking his real identity to that of the Libertas administrator position on the platform. This whole debacle dates back to 2013 when the DOJ served Microsoft with a warrant. Apparently, law enforcement agencies wanted to investigate a particular Microsoft Outlook account. At that time,....
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How many bitcoins have been mined so far? How many bitcoins did the FBI seize during the Silk Road investigation? Where did all those bitcoins go? Who has the most number of bitcoins in the world? These are some of the questions that are bound to be asked at one time or another, unless you have already asked that to yourself. Starting with, How many bitcoins have been mined so far? To give you the statistics, out of the total 21 million bitcoins to be mined, over 14.75 million bitcoins are already mined. The total number of bitcoins mined so far can be found at this link. Time for the next....
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.”....
The latest reincarnation of the deep web marketplace, in the form of Silk Road 3.0 is started by the people behind Crypto Market. Will they be able to live up to the expectations? Silk Road is reincarnated for the fourth time. The deep web marketplace is back online after its predecessors were forcibly shut down by the law enforcement agencies resulting in the creator’s arrest and incarceration. Silk Road used to be a network of trade routes traversing through the whole of Asian continent to connect with the Mediterranean Sea. It originally got its name for being the route taken by the....
The FBI shut down black marketplace Silk Road a year ago. This hidden website was used for the sale and purchase of items and services such as drugs, weapons, fake passports and other forged documents. To refresh your memory of the full Silk Road story, check out our interactive timeline below: This article is part of CoinDesk's Silk Road: One Year On series. Keep checking back for new additions to the series. Road. Silk RoadTimelines
Yesterday a document containing 122 pages of plain text related to Ross Ulbricht's Silk Road trial was released. The trial was immediately sealed due to the ongoing investigation of Carl Mark Force IV. The order to unseal came into effect with his arrest. Preet Bharara is pleading to Judge Forrest that the terminally corrupted Baltimore investigation somehow ceased to have any meaning since those conducting the investigation lost its credibility. These 122 pages represent almost the totality of the documents pertaining to the investigation of corrupt agents that had been sealed during the....