Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Two federal agents charged with stealing online currency Bitcoin during investigation of Silk Road drug trafficking website

  • The U.S. Justice Department has announced charges against two former federal agents accused of stealing the digital currency
  • Carl Force, a former DEA agent,and Shaun Bridges, a special agent with the Secret Service, were charged in a criminal complaint
  • Silk Road was an underground website where people bought drugs and other illicit goods using bitcoin digital currency 
  • Force, 46, and Bridges, 32, belonged to a Baltimore-based federal task force investigating the Silk Road
  • Force had a prominent role in the probe, authorities said, and was the lead undercover agent in communication with the website's alleged operator

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