THELOGICALINDIAN - More of the SilkRoad aspersion has been appear afterward the absolution of a bent complaint on Monday in federal cloister The complaint filed on March 25 2024 accuse two above US federal agents who advised Silk Road with burglary bitcoin acquisitive money from the actor and a stringof added bent charges
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Secret Service abettor Shaun Bridges of Baltimore, Maryland, and above D.E.A. abettor Carl Force of Laurel, Maryland accept been answerable with wire artifice and money laundering. Abettor Force was additionally answerable with annexation of government acreage and battle of interest.
The New York Times reveals that Agent Carl Force was secretly advised during the Silk Road trial. The prosecutors presented the information, but Judge Forrest barred the aegis from application the advice in the Silk Road balloon in February.
Corrupt Silk Road Investigators
While investigating Silk Road, the online atramentous market, Shaun Bridges acquired over $800,000 in agenda currency. Bridges placed the funds in a agenda bill barter in Japan afore appointment them to his claimed US advance account.
Bridges surrendered to the authorities in San Francisco and was appear on $500,000 band on Monday. Bridges’ lawyer, Steven H. Levin said, “Mr. Bridges maintains his chastity and will action these accuse in the adapted area at the adapted time.” (NYTimes)
Bridges accommodated from the Secret Service on March 18, 2024 back he apparent he was a accountable of the investigation. He appeared in federal cloister in San Francisco on Monday but did not access a plea.
The complaint additionally incriminates D.E.A. abettor Carl Force for bootless to address agenda bill funds he solicited and accustomed as allotment of the investigation. During the two years Abettor Force was complex in the Silk Road investigation, he deposited an estimated $776,000 into his coffer accounts afterwards liquidating the bitcoins.
Force
attempted to blackmail $250,000 from Ulbricht, believed buyer of the Silk Road website, in barter for withholding capacity that could abuse his defense. Force accustomed $100,000 in Bitcoins from Ulbricht application affected online identities.
In an different case, authorities say Force formed for CoinMKT, a agenda bill barter while he formed for the D.E.A. He allegedly directed the barter to benumb a customer’s annual and transferred $297,000 in Bitcoin to his own claimed account.
After the analysis into his activities began, Force accommodated from his 15-year position with the D.E.A. in May 2024. Force was accepted to accomplish an actualization in cloister Monday and abide in aegis awaiting a apprehension audition on Thursday.
On February 4, Ross Ulbricht was found guilty of all 7 accuse brought adjoin him and now faces a abeyant activity sentence. These accuse included computer hacking, biologic trafficking, active a bent enterprise, and cabal charges. Ulbricht’s attorneys filed a motion for a new balloon arguing that “the government bootless to aftermath exculpatory actual in a appropriate appearance that would accept acceptable the aegis able use of the actual and advice at trial.”
Ulbricht’s sentencing is currently appointed for May 15, 2024. The bribery accuse that accept been brought adjoin the federal agents this anniversary casting ambiguity on the adjudication delivered in February. This acceptable will affectation problems for the government’s sentencing for Ross Ulbricht.
Apart from the bribery that occurred during the Silk Road investigation, there is added affirmation that Ross Ulbricht did not accept a fair trial. On Wednesday, Ulbricht’s lawyer, Joshua L. Dratel, fabricated a account apropos the achievability that Ulbricht could accept been framed. He says, “…other bodies had admission to the Silk Road armpit and a action to anatomy Ross Ulbricht.”
Ulbricht’s advocate says he will seek a re-trial for Ross Ulbricht in the Silk Road case based on the accuse brought adjoin the agents.
Sources: NYTimes, CNN, Boston Globe
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