[2015-12-26] The Tax Sleuth Who Took Down a Drug Lord

[LiteCoinGuy]

The Tax Sleuth Who Took Down a Drug Lord

Gary L. Alford was running on adrenaline when he arrived for work on a Monday in June 2013, at the Drug Enforcement Administration office in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan. A tax investigator, he had spent much of the weekend in the living room of his New Jersey townhouse, scrolling through arcane chat rooms and old blog posts, reading on well after his fiancée had gone to sleep.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/27/business/dealbook/the-unsung-tax-agent-who-put-a-face-on-the-silk-road.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=photo-spot-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

[pikapay]

What kind of "Drug Lord" orders fake IDs to his home or posts his own email address to Bitcoin Talk?

See:

http://www.bitcoinwednesday.com/the-legacy-of-silk-road-part-4/




The New York Times article refers to two posts on this same forum:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=175.msg42670#msg42670

and

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=47811.msg568744#msg568744


The story only mentions the word "bitcoin" once.