Dark Web Drug Dealer Indicted for Laundering $137 Million in Bitcoin From Prison

[yazher]

I think this is nothing new related to drug money laundering by buying bitcoin and this has happened very often not only with drug money but also a lot of money with other crimes committed to buy bitcoin on the stock market, of course every country has its own their respective officers to uphold justice or to apprehend the perpetrators of crime, let alone the proceeds to buy bitcoins

I believe they just wanted to put all blame on bitcoins since they caught the suspect using bitcoin to launder his money but the problem here is the illegal things they've done that have nothing to do with bitcoins. They just used bitcoins for their props to avoid getting caught but in the end, it turns out different from what they've expected. I think this won't really affect anything in the market right now since this kind of event is not new and people already know the truth about bitcoins that it has nothing to do with the illegal activities and alike of it.

[xwshamim]

How can he do this things from inside the prison?? The prison system should be more secure and maintain all the prisoners .And bitcoin is a payment method .it depends on the people how he uses it

[raidarksword]

It is truly the other side of using bitcoin, many people grab the opportunities to used it on illegal activities that's why bitcoin is the victim here no matter what. Its just people putting bad names on it that's why people has no knowledge about bitcoin will directly bitcoin is bad but people who has knowledge about will truly defend bitcoin that it has great usage for us and it will have a mass adoption towards it.

[bryant.coleman]

The whole story might be fake, but I have watched some interviews on YouTube (it is on Russian, but you can switch on subs if you want) with Russian hackers (badb for example), that served sentence in US and they said it is possible to get a smartphone in fed prisons. It cost about $5k per phone. Especially it is easy if there are a lot of Italians in the prison, because they have their men everywhere and have a lot of money.
I have a strong believe, that if a prisoner have a lot of money, and with a current level of corruption, it is possible to get everything in cell.

Then there may be rare exceptions. Prison gangs are very active, even in federal prisons. And it is not just the Italians, but also the Latinos and East European gangs who are involved in this. For these gangs, it is easier to launder money, because they are trans-national, unlike the local gangs such as Aryan Circle or the Crips. And not all the federal prisons have the same level of security. For example, ADX Florence and USP Marion can't be equated to low-security prisons such as Marianna Federal Correctional Institution.