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Federal Agents Face Arrest for Alleged Silk Road Bitcoin Theft : Swiss App Bitcoin Digitalcoin

Federal Agents Face Arrest for Alleged Silk Road Bitcoin Theft

2 federal agents who took part in the United States government's efforts to take down illegal online black market Silk Road have been accuseded of scams for supposedly misusing funds denominated in bitcoin while on assignment.

Maybe most especially, the Department of Justice (DOJ) alleges unique agent with the United States Key Service (USSS) Shaun Bridges “diverted” more than $ 800,000 in digital currency to his personal accounts without permission during the examination.

Similarly, Drug Enforcement Company (DEA) agent Carl Mark Force IV is purported to have actually “solicited and received” digital currency as part of the examination into Silk Roadway, making use of “phony online personalities” to “take from the government and targets of the examination”.

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