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Title: Feds have sticky fingers
Post by: cassandra and sara's daddy on March 30, 2015, 02:46:42 PM

Cops investigating Silk Road apparently go large in thefts
Now I wonder how they got caught
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2015/03/30/doj-these-federal-officials-stole-bitcoins-from-silk-road-while-investigating-silk-road/?hpid=z4


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Title: Re: Feds have sticky fingers
Post by: KD5NRH on March 30, 2015, 03:03:09 PM

Quote from: cassandra and sara's daddy on March 30, 2015, 02:46:42 PM

Cops investigating Silk Road apparently go large in thefts

This could get entertaining; it's not "beat cop on perimeter duty who won't be needed in court found lifting a couple bills from the speakeasy's till during a raid" it's "key investigator pockets enough for a couple of nice houses."

The amusing part is that it not only calls their plausibility into question, but their qualification as well; this is supposed to be a top Fed digital forensics guy and he couldn't hide a Bitcoin transaction.  It's like a banker getting a couple million in untraceable bills and dropping it into his regular checking account.

Title: Re: Feds have sticky fingers
Post by: cassandra and sara's daddy on March 30, 2015, 03:07:26 PM

And if his testimony was a key part of case...... It's at the very least greatly diminished if not completely worthless now.


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Title: Re: Feds have sticky fingers
Post by: lee n. field on March 30, 2015, 03:41:48 PM

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he couldn't hide a Bitcoin transaction.

 [popcorn]

Title: Re: Feds have sticky fingers
Post by: vaskidmark on March 30, 2015, 04:10:46 PM

My faith has not been shaken.  The Secret Service guy just outright stole bitcoins (and then lost them).  The DEA guy used extortion.

Nothing unusual to see here, folks.  Move on along, please.

stay safe.

Title: Re: Feds have sticky fingers
Post by: KD5NRH on March 30, 2015, 04:34:59 PM

Quote from: cassandra and sara's daddy on March 30, 2015, 03:07:26 PM

And if his testimony was a key part of case...... It's at the very least greatly diminished if not completely worthless now.

Not just his testimony; if Silk Road's lawyers are any good, any testimony that even remotely relies on anything he might have been able to mess with.  Considering pretty much all the evidence is data pulled from the internet, that's likely to be all of it.

Title: Re: Feds have sticky fingers
Post by: Battle Monkey of Zardoz on March 30, 2015, 06:18:08 PM

Feds have sticky fingers. And.....the sun will rise in the east tomorrow.

Title: Re: Feds have sticky fingers
Post by: MechAg94 on March 31, 2015, 02:59:05 PM

Quote from: Battle Monkey of Zardoz on March 30, 2015, 06:18:08 PM

Feds have sticky fingers. And.....the sun will rise in the east tomorrow.

Since they say the North Pole is supposed to melt, I thought it might be moving North.   =|