The US Secret Service has managed to bring to justice two agents who were found guilty of stealing $820,000 in Bitcoins from the Silk Road drug market.
Shaun W. Bridges pleaded guilty to withholding the amount.
“Mr. Shaun W. Bridges has indicated that he is truly sorry for what happened,” Bridges’ attorney, Steve Hale Levin, told Bloomberg.bitcoin Silk Road Silk Road
"His decision to plead guilty reflects full acceptance of his actions and is another step towards his rehabilitation" (sic).
Shaun W. Bridges was part of a task force that hunted down former Silk Road administrator Ross Ulbricht, and was one of two people who stole Bitcoins from the site.
Specifically, he used to use the account of former manager Curtis Green to steal from drug dealers' accounts, which led UIbricht to start looking for a hitman because he suspected Green of the thefts.
The death contract charge has not yet been heard by the court.
Second-term US Secret Service agent Carl Force is accused of blackmailing Silk Road administrator Ross Ulbricht to gain access to $235,000 in a Panamanian bank account in exchange for information about police operations.
Force asked Ross Ulbricht for (and allegedly received) 925 Bitcoins, (worth $90,000) to issue him a fake ID and provide him with information for the investigation.
The agent did not want to hand over the PGP key he was using for his conversations on Silk Road (he was using it to encrypt his conversations with Ulbricht), which was quite suspicious, and got the Feds thinking.
Source: iguru
