Former Secret Service agent Shaun Bridges isgoing to prisonfor 71 calendar month , or nearly six years , for stealing over $ 800,000 in Bitcoin from drug dealer while investigating the Silk Road .
Bridgesconspired to offend badas part of the Baltimore Silk Road Task Force with an ( famously named ) DEA broker , Carl Force . Together , Bridges and Force took an “ Omar Little ” coming to bust the Silk Road : They slip tremendous sums of money from the drug dealers .
Bridges screwed up other federal investigations , according to Assistant US Attorney Kathryn Haun . In motor hotel today , Haunblamed Bridges for contaminating cases and investigationsacross the country . This included a criminal investigation into failed Bitcoin interchange Mt. Gox , Ars Technicareports .
call up how Ross Ulbricht , who was convict of running the Silk Road as the Dread Pirate Roberts , purportedly ordered impinge on manto bolt down conniving dealer ? execution - for - hire was in his indictment , but the charges were dropped , even though law enforcement described how agent bull the death of a cooperator . Well , Bridges may have fucked that case up too . The sentencing memorandum charge him of represent with“reckless disregard”for Maryland ’s would - be murder - for - hire and drug conspiracy case . The whole ground Dread Pirate Roberts allegedly want to kill one of the drug dealers in the first position was because Bridges had puzzle at that dealer and slip from Silk Road .
[ Ars Technica ]
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