THELOGICALINDIAN - The US Secret Service abettor who helped to accompany bottomward the Silk Road atramentous bazaar website but embezzled bedeviled Bitcoins blanket alike added bill while in custody
The US Secret Service agent, 35-year-old Shaun Bridges, who aided investigations into the Silk Road marketplace, was initially bedevilled in 2015 to a 71-month bastille appellation for burglary bedeviled Bitcoins. In 2016 it emerged that Bridges had additionally embezzled added bill while he was still in custody. On November 2 he was bedevilled to an added 2 years in jail and ordered to cost the baseborn 1,600 Bitcoins, currently account over $10 million.
Bridges had been assigned to the Baltimore Silk Road Task Force to investigate and shut bottomward the online atramentous market. His responsibilities were to conduct argumentative computer investigations in adjustment to locate, analyze and arraign targets including Silk Road arch Ross Ulbricht, aka “Dread Pirate Roberts”. Bridges had been active by the US Secret Service for 6 years.
Bridges was aloof a day abroad from starting his antecedent bastille appellation back the added accuse were fabricated in January 2024. According to admissions fabricated in affiliation with his accusable plea, Bridges accepted to application a clandestine key to admission a agenda wallet acceptance to the U.S. government, after appointment the bedeviled bitcoins to a alternation of bitcoin exchanges to which alone he had access.
Assistant United States Attorney William Frentzen stated:
U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg alleged the above federal agent’s conduct a “betrayal of trust” and “among the affliction of crimes.”
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