Biting bitcoin: real Silk Road crimes.

AuthorDoherty, Brian
PositionArrest of agents who investigated Ross Ulbricht - Citings - Brief article

MONTHS AFTER convicting Ross Ulbricht for facilitating the sale of illegal items via the dark-web site Silk Road, the federal government arrested two of its own agents who investigated Ulbricht. Carl Force of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and Shaun Bridges of the Secret Service now face charges for actual theft and fraud.

Force is accused of extorting bitcoin from "Dread Pirate Roberts," the pseudonymous operator of Silk Road, under various fake identities, and keeping the money himself. He also got a job as "compliance officer" for a bitcoin exchange while still working for the DEA and stole nearly $300,000 from other people in that capacity. Bridges was accused of funding companies of his own with bitcoin that the feds believe were originally stolen from Silk Road by Bridges.

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