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Some of the federal investigators stole some Bitcoins from the Silk Road over the course of their investigations and tried to cover it up and keep the Bitcoins
by amyjess 9y ago
Some of the federal investigators stole some Bitcoins from the Silk Road over the course of their investigations and tried to cover it up and keep the Bitcoins for themselves.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/10/corrupt-silk-road-agent-carl-force-sentenced-to-78-months/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/10/corrupt-silk-roa...
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/06/secret-service-agent-who-stole-820k-from-silk-road-pleads-guilty/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/06/secret-service-a...
- narag 9y agoThank you! I missed those news.
- jessaustin 9y agoThanks, but the link on The Great Shaun Bridges is somewhat out of date: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vv7dgj/great-moments-in-shaun-bridges-a-corrupt-silk-road-investigator https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vv7dgj/great-mome... https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/nov/8/shaun-bridges-ex-secret-service-agent-sentenced-ag/ https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/nov/8/shaun-bridge... [EDIT:] Scroll to the bottom of the Motherboard article, click on this exemplar of LEOs' name, and read more. Apparently there may have been another LEO ridin' dirty on this investigation, only we don't know who. All we know is that she or he modified all the digital evidence that was later used to convict Ulbricht. This is law enforcement, people.
- petre 9y agoWell, your example clearly involves theft of private property, so why shouldn't they go to jail? It's worse enough that the police can sieze cash arbitrarily. If it was legal to do so for the officers' own use, how is policing different from racketeering then?
- jessaustin 9y agoHow, indeed...