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Title: Second US Agent Agrees to Plead Guilty to Bitcoin Theft Post by: annoyingorange on June 23, 2015, 04:18:41 PM Carl Force, the second of two former US agents charged with pocketing hundreds of thousands
of dollars in bitcoin during the Silk Road investigation, reached a plea agreement with prosecutors (http://tinyurl.com/o9dedc9). Force agreed to plead guilty to charges including money laundering and extortion. Force’s agreement follows a similar deal reached on June 17 with Shaun Bridges, a US Secret Service agent who worked with Force on the same Baltimore task force. |