The pair seems to have acted independently of each other, while using encryption software, inside knowledge of the investigation and offshore banking complex transfer digital money and called bitcoins currency of the united states.
Force is also accused of creating a new person online known as "French Maid" without his knowledge supervisors. Force is charged with the help of the French maid moniker for sale inside information from the Silk Road about the investigation into the website. The records of the court to accuse the Force to fly over 200 000 dollars in the Silk Road during the federal investigation of the site.
Bridges, 32, sitting in a report of a Silk Road employee to cooperate with the probe, which gave the password to access the site investigators as directors. He is accused of leaving the meeting early and using the information provided by the employee to access the Silk Road Finance and the funnel of 800,000 dollars to private accounts. Bridges "suddenly", resigned March 18 after a six-year career with the Secret Service, court documents show.
AMERICAN former Secret Service Special Agent Shaun W. Bridges, 32, of Laurel, Maryland, appeared before a federal court in San Francisco and is free on $ 500,000 bond after being charged with fraud son and money laundering.
Bridges, meanwhile, is responsible for using the information gathered during the investigation to hack the site and to steal $ 800,000 in January 2013. The bridge served on a special AMERICAN Secret Service Electronic Crimes on group work and was expert technology for the Silk Road investigation.
Ivan Bates is his lawyer did not return a phone call.
Force is also accused of accepting a position as head of compliance for a bitcoin business while serving with the DEA. Force is accused of using his DEA to enter a customer $ 297,000 account and transfer it to his private account. Force resigned from the DEA last year after 15-year career, according to court records.
Cyber security experts said that corruption on the Internet seems to be rare because there are few police officers who have the skills to carry out this type of fraud Force and Bridges are accused of committing.
Force worked undercover and convinced of the Silk Road of the operator that he was a drug dealer world of the underworld connections. Strength, online help under the pseudonym "Nob" contacted the Dread Pirate Roberts with "pretty good privacy" of the encryption software and obtained hundreds of thousands of dollars in bitcoin payments in connection a sting operation sanctioned by his supervisors. But Force is charged with failing to report most of the communications and payments and redirect the money received from the Silk Road to private accounts.
The two former agents seems to have operated independently of each other for stealing electronic money known as bitcoins from the same survey.
Force was the principal investigator of one of the aspects of interagency cooperation and multi-state investigation of the Silk Road and today condemned the operator Ross Ulbricht, who used the pseudonym "Dread Pirate Roberts. "
Former agent of the Drug Enforcement Administration Carl M. Force, 46, was arrested Friday in Baltimore and remained in custody Monday after being charged with son fraud, theft of public property, laundering money and conflicts of interest.
JJ Thompson, CEO of Security Tower, an Indianapolis based computer security company, said that more people with the skills agents, cases of corruption are likely to increase.
Federal authorities arrested Ulbricht in San Francisco in October 2013 and shutters site. A federal jury convicted Ulbricht seven charges, including the execution of a criminal prosecution, drug trafficking, money laundering and computer hacking. Ulbricht faces 30 years in prison and is scheduled to be sentenced on May 15.
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