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2 former federal agents charged with stealing Bitcoin during Silk Road probe

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http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/30/politics/federal-agents-charged-with-stealing-bitcoin/index.html

 

 

From the article:

 

"The federal government became owners of one of the biggest troves of Bitcoin, thanks to seizing millions of dollars in the digital currency from criminals associated with the online black market Silk Road.

Two federal agents who helped lead one of several investigations in the case allegedly decided they wanted some of the money for themselves, according to a new federal court documents.

The two now-former agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration and the U.S. Secret Service are charged with wire fraud, money laundering and other offenses for allegedly stealing Bitcoin during the federal investigation of Silk Road, an underground illicit black market federal prosecutors shut down in 2013."

 

 

I can't honestly say i am surprised. and i don't mean "because: government" Its more the fact of if you were tempted. Could you really resist. I mean who would miss anonymous drug money.... right?  ;)

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Yet if they charge you with intent to sell they can keep all of your real money that you had on person. They seize cash, cars, guns, they are proud of it too

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These guys only got in trouble because they wanted it for themselves, not the agency they worked for, and because it was a federal agency, not a state one that would directly benefit from this. 

I'm really surprised this is a big deal, it's basically misconduct, because the government keeps all of these assets, these two basically just stole seized assets from the government, and that happens all of the time. 

Something tells me this is big news because it was bitcoin.

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tbh, I would try to steal some too. What would the government do with it? 

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Eh who cares? It was drug and sex trafficking money. To the victor go the spoils.

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tbh, I would try to steal some too. What would the government do with it?

Pay off some of its crippling debt.

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Pay off some of its crippling debt.

*crippling debt from killing innocents for oil so they can make money for the people stealing money from them

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Pay off some of its crippling debt.

 

they're going to need a lot more than $33 million

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Pay off some of its crippling debt.

It would take 90% of the US governments income to pay just the interest on our debt.

 

We literally will never be able to pay off the loans

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I encourage everyone with interest in the overall story to actually read the complaint. It's astonishing.

 

It appears that these two Federal agents were doing far, far more than just grabbing some excess bitcoins that were lying around and they figured nobody would miss. It reads more like a purposeful organized crime effort, involving setting up dummy shell companies, forging letters from the government, being involved in pitching investments in shady offshore bitcoin startups, etc.

 

In fact, though they don't elaborate much, there is some implication that these agents may have been responsible for theft of bitcoin not only from Silk Road, but from Mt Gox as well. The complaint outlines how they transferred millions of dollars from Mt Gox, and then turned around and themselves signed Federal warrants seizing the assets of Mt Gox.

 

Reading this is thoroughly jaw-dropping, the kind of thing you'd associate with the government of a third-world country.

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
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Could you really resist. I mean who would miss anonymous drug money.... right?  ;)

 

It's not really anonymous unless you pass it through a mixing service.

Also, since all of the keys are known when the coins are seized everybody's going to know that someone stole a certain amount of them within about ten minutes. It's not like very many people would be suspects either.

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Why are people so dumb as if they weren't going to get caught.  -_- What they should of done is taken as much as they could then fled the country.

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Their real crime: Not sharing with the rest of the government.

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It's not really anonymous unless you pass it through a mixing service.

Also, since all of the keys are known when the coins are seized everybody's going to know that someone stole a certain amount of them within about ten minutes. It's not like very many people would be suspects either.

 

 

I really need a sarcasm marker..

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