The US Secret Service has managed to lead the prosecutor two agents found guilty of theft of 820 000 dollars in Bitcoins from 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 part of a special teams who went after former Silk Road administrator Ross Ulbricht and was one of the two who stole Bitcoins from the site.
In particular, he used to use the account of former administrator Curtis Green to intercept the accounts of drug dealers, as a result of which UIbricht began to search for a murderer on payment, because he had suspected Green of the thefts.
The charge for the death contract has not yet been judged by the court.
The second US intelligence agent Carl Force is accused of violating Silk Road manager Ross Ulbricht to win the amount of 235.000 dollars he wanted on a bill in Panama. In return he would provide him with information about police actions.
Force asked Ross Ulbricht for (and allegedly received) 925 Bitcoins, (worth $90.000) to issue him a fake ταυτότητα και να του δώσει πληροφορίες για την research.
The agent did not want to hand over the PGP key it used for the talks of Silk Road (he was using it to encrypt his conversations with Ulbricht) which was quite suspicious, and it got the Feds thinking.
