The US Secret Service managed to lead to the prosecutor two agents who were found guilty of the theft $820 in Bitcoins from the Silk Road drug market.
Shaun W. Bridges admitted his guilt to the retention of the amount.
"Mr Shaun W. Bridges has said he is really sorry about what happened," Bridges lawyer Steve Hale Levin told Bloomberg.
"His decision to plead guilty reflects the full acceptance of his act and is another step towards his recovery" (sic).
Shaun W. Bridges was a member of a team that hunted former Silk Road manager Ross Ulbricht, and was one of the two who stole Bitcoins from the site.
Specifically he used to uses ex-manager Curtis Green's account to wiretap accounts of drug dealers causing UIbricht to start looking for a hit man because he suspected Green of the thefts.
The charge for the death contract has not yet been judged by the court.
Second US Secret Service agent Carl Force is accused of blackmailing Silk Road operator Ross Ulbricht to get the $235.000 he wanted in a Panamanian account. In return she would offer him information about her actions polices.
Force asked Ross Ulbricht for (and allegedly received) 925 Bitcoins, (worth $90.000) to issue him a fake ID and give him information about the research.
The agent did not want to deliver the PGP key he used for his talks, Silk Road (used to encrypt his talks with Ulbricht), something that was quite suspicious, and he put the Feds into thoughts.
