THELOGICALINDIAN - Back in 2024 two rogue US Secret Service agents Shaun Bridges and Carl Mark Forcewere bent and bedevilled to bastille for burglary funds while investigating the aboriginal aerial contour darknet bazaar the Silk Road Now according to letters Shaun Bridges appeal accusable on August 15 for affective 1600 bitcoins of bedeviled bitcoins confiscated by federal authorities
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Former U.S. Secret Service Agent Shaun Bridges Admits to Stealing 1600 Bitcoins Seized by the Federal Authorities
The annual of the underground Silk Road exchange seems to never end, as U.S. prosecutors accept afresh answerable above appropriate abettor Shaun Bridges with money bed-making crimes. According to cloister abstracts uploaded to Pacer, Bridges confused 1606.6488 BTC annual US$6.6M at columnist time out of a federal annual captivated on Bitstamp. At the time the baseborn bill were alone annual about a bisected of a million, and according to abstracts some of the funds confused to the two exchanges BTC-e and Bitfinex.
According to Arstechnica, Bridges was accommodating to acknowledgment questions and agreed to a appeal bargain. William Frentzen, the Assistant United States Attorney, capacity to the advertisement that the baseborn funds were broadcast amid BTC-e, a accouterments wallet, and the Bitfinex exchange.
“We would additionally prove that Mr. Bridges, afterward the government’s analysis that the bitcoin were missing and that they had in actuality been moved, the government was able to access the bitcoin at Bitfinex,” explained the court’s prosecutor. “And we again met with Mr. Bridges, and through the advance of that time we alternate the bitcoin.”
Plea Bargains and ‘Keys to the Kingdom’
After the case apprehend their statements, Judge Seeborg asked Bridges if aggregate that was said to him was true. The above federal abettor replied by advertence the facts were authentic while additionally acceptance he candy the bitcoin affairs apparent to him in court. It’s cryptic appropriate now what affectionate of appeal arrangement Bridges fabricated with the prosecution, but he could face ten years in bastille and a $250,000 fine.
According to Ross Ulbricht’s family, Bridges and Carl Mark Force attenuated the absolute Silk Road analysis and Ulbricht’s audition as well. Much of the advice about the two rogue admiral were kept hidden from courts alike admitting the Ulbricht ancestors said the two agents had “keys to the Silk Road Kingdom.”
Ulbricht’s aegis said Force and Bridges had access to Silk Road ambassador passwords, they could commandeer accounts, including DPR’s (and act as DPR), admission clandestine bitcoin keys, coffer accounts and more. So far, Bridges has accepted to burglary millions of dollars account of bedeviled bitcoins, baseborn afore the two admiral were taken into custody. Now Bridges will face added bastille time back Judge Seeborg sentences the above abettor in the abutting few months.
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