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 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 hack into drug dealers' accounts, prompting UIbricht to begin searching for a hitman 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 (and allegedly received) 925 Bitcoins (worth 90.000 dollars) to issue him a false identity and give him information about the investigation.
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.
