Feds Charged With Stealing Money During Silk Road Investigation

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Can we just admit the war on drugs is a farce? Only reason is still around is the money's too good

Feds Charged With Stealing Money During Silk Road Investigation

Two former federal agents who investigated the Silk Road, the infamous online drug marketplace seized by the FBI in 2013, have been charged for their own outrageous digital crimes, including stealing money they acquired on their druggie undercover assignment.

Former DEA officer Carl Mark Force IV and former Secret Service agent Shaun Bridges, both part of a Baltimore-based task force devoted to taking down the Silk Road, are accused of wire fraud and money laundering. Force is also accused of theft of government property.
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It is a revenue stream, and like all revenue streams, the government will do everything they can to maintain it.
 
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Theft of government property..these guys might actually get put on the street..before of course being rehired in some other agency.
 
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Silk Road Investigator Shaun Bridges To Plead Guilty After Allegedly Stealing $820K In Bitcoin From Drug Market

Ross Ulbricht, a Texas native and accomplished science student, was ultimately convicted as the operator of the Silk Road after a three-week trial in January. He was sentenced to life in prison on May 29, for multiple counts including conspiracy, though the defense has since appealed based on the accusations against Bridges and another agent, Carl Force. Force stands accused of creating multiple online identities in an attempt to extort Ulbricht, among other crimes.
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Silk Road founder gets life in prison for creating online drug site | KFOR.com

Ulbricht, who is 31, was convicted in February on seven counts ranging from money laundering to drug trafficking. He could have been sentenced to only 20 years.
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So wait... Ulbricht gets a life sentence for doing the same thing Wachovia/Wells Fargo got away with... and nobody went to jail?

How A Major U.S. Bank Laundered Billions In Mexican Drug Money - Business Insider

I wonder how much time these dirty cops get for skimming drug money, blackmail and witness tampering?
 
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Why does this guy get life, yet we have banksters and fraudsters that rob humanity of wealth every second (literally) of every day?

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbo-KIInFbw[/youtube]
 
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volfanhill said:
I don't agree with the sentence but that's a gross over simplification of what he did and you know it.
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Hardly. He created a website for people who wanted to experience a free market beyond the reach of government so to speak. There wasn't any murders, he was never even charged with murder. The judge simply made an example out of Ross so most folks would be too scared to try this again.

Here is all the info you'll need.
http://freeross.org/the-case-the-goal-and-why-this-matters-2/
 
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He oversaw a website that enabled people to break the law and made money off them breaking the law. And they did so in historic fashion. He is guilty as hell. Just because you disagree with the law doesn't mean he gets a pass.
 
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volfanhill said:
He oversaw a website that enabled people to break the law. And they did so in historic fashion. He is guilty as hell. Just because you disagree with the law doesn't mean he gets a pass.
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Ford builds cars that enable people to beak the law. :whistling:
 
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volfanhill said:
He oversaw a website that enabled people to break the law and made money off them breaking the law. And they did so in historic fashion. He is guilty as hell. Just because you disagree with the law doesn't mean he gets a pass.
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Lets forget about the law he broke (for another debate).

What he did is no where near worthy of a dbl life sentence... or even a single life sentence.

1-2 years tops... maybe a fine.
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
Silk Road Investigator Shaun Bridges To Plead Guilty After Allegedly Stealing $820K In Bitcoin From Drug Market



Silk Road founder gets life in prison for creating online drug site | KFOR.com



So wait... Ulbricht gets a life sentence for doing the same thing Wachovia/Wells Fargo got away with... and nobody went to jail?

How A Major U.S. Bank Laundered Billions In Mexican Drug Money - Business Insider

I wonder how much time these dirty cops get for skimming drug money, blackmail and witness tampering?
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The system is broken and we are all complicit.
 
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volfanhill said:
He oversaw a website that enabled people to break the law and made money off them breaking the law. And they did so in historic fashion. He is guilty as hell. Just because you disagree with the law doesn't mean he gets a pass.
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Again.. Wells-Fargo/Wachovia laundered drug money along with HSBC and none of the criminals involved in those cases did a day in jail.
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
Lets forget about the law he broke (for another debate).

What he did is no where near worthy of a dbl life sentence... or even a single life sentence.

1-2 years tops... maybe a fine.
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I already said I disagree with the sentence so....
 
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Mtntrout said:
The system is broken and we are all complicit.
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"Since mankind's dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By doing so, they took our power. By doing nothing, we gave it away. We've seen where their way leads, through camps and wars, towards the slaughterhouse." - V
 
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