Convicted Silk Road Investigator Tries to Flee Country
Posted by: Timothy Weaver on 02/17/2016 10:43 AM
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Former Secret Service agent Shaun Bridges pleaded guilty in October to charges of money laundering and obstruction of justice. He confessed that as part of the team investigating the Silk Road anonymous drug market he had secretly stolen around $800,000 worth of bitcoins from the site. He was sentenced to 71 months in jail.
However, the agents who arrested Bridges found that he’d packed his passport, a cell phone, documents related to his wife’s application for citizenship in another country, and corporate records for at least three “offshore entities” in Belize, Nevis and Mauritius (including one that had been created after his guilty plea) into two briefcases.
Prosecutors argue that it shows that Bridges didn’t plan to report to prison as promised. Bridges confessed to using the account of an arrested Silk Road administrator, Curtis Clark Green, to secretly steal hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of bitcoin from the site.
Drug Enforcement Administration agent Carl Mark Force IV was also convicted of selling information to Ulbricht and attempting to extort cash from him. Ulbricht allegedly believed Green had stolen the money and paid Force, an undercover agent posing as a drug dealer on the Silk Road, to have him murdered.
The DEA created faked images of Greens death and sent them to Ulbricht.
Source: Wired
However, the agents who arrested Bridges found that he’d packed his passport, a cell phone, documents related to his wife’s application for citizenship in another country, and corporate records for at least three “offshore entities” in Belize, Nevis and Mauritius (including one that had been created after his guilty plea) into two briefcases.Prosecutors argue that it shows that Bridges didn’t plan to report to prison as promised. Bridges confessed to using the account of an arrested Silk Road administrator, Curtis Clark Green, to secretly steal hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of bitcoin from the site.
Drug Enforcement Administration agent Carl Mark Force IV was also convicted of selling information to Ulbricht and attempting to extort cash from him. Ulbricht allegedly believed Green had stolen the money and paid Force, an undercover agent posing as a drug dealer on the Silk Road, to have him murdered.
The DEA created faked images of Greens death and sent them to Ulbricht.
Source: Wired
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