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From the link I dug out in the above comment "According to an investigation conducted by the Criminal Investigation Division of the Internal Revenue Service an
by Pick-A-Hill2019 6y ago
From the link I dug out in the above comment
"According to an investigation conducted by the Criminal Investigation Division of the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California, Individual X was the individual who moved the cryptocurrency from Silk Road. According to the investigation, Individual X was able to hack into Silk Road and gain unauthorized and illegal access to Silk Road and thereby steal the illicit cryptocurrency from Silk Road and move it into wallets that Individual X controlled. According to the investigation, Ulbricht became aware of Individual X’s online identity and threatened Individual X for return of the cryptocurrency to Ulbricht. Individual X did not return the cryptocurrency but kept it and did not spend it.
On November 3, 2020, Individual X signed a Consent and Agreement to Forfeiture with the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Northern District of California. In that agreement, Individual X, consented to the forfeiture of the Defendant Property to the United States government. On November 3, 2020, the United States took custody of the Defendant Property from 1HQ3."
- Scoundreller 6y agoSounds like they bought their way out of a prison sentence? I wonder if any of the forfeiture got rebated back to them.
- fedreserved 6y agoMaybe, the statute of limitations were up on the hacking and theft lf the bitcoins themselves, but they gave up the coins due to civil asset seizure
- gojomo 6y agoI wonder: could 'Individual X' be DEA agent Carl Force (previously sentenced to prison), Secret Service agent Shaun Bridges (previously sentenced to prison), or some other government agent or informant who had tried to enrich themselves via the investigation? More about Force & Bridges: https://freeross.org/corruption/ https://freeross.org/corruption/
- TinyRick 6y agoOr perhaps Thomas Clark, who has his sentencing scheduled for December.
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- hammock 6y agoAny indication that Individual X was working for the government the whole time?