DEA Agents in Silk Road Case Face Fraud Charges

[bigasic]

Im surprised that Inigo wasn't charged with conspiracy to commit murder. He egged DPR on to murder Green. He did strike some sort of deal in October, his sentencing is this October. Maybe they said we wont charge you with the murder rap. I think hes looking at a ten year mandatory minimum. He was only paid about 1k a week, worked for about a year, so he made about 50k. Sounds like DPR was a cheap bastard... He should have paid his main workers 10 to 20 grand a month for the risk they took, not like he couldnt afford it. he paid out hundreds of thousand for murders that never happened,lol...

[AGD]

VJ is Plural of Mongoose aka Thomas Clark. Should be easy for LE to find him for an interview.

If he really is Thomas Clark, then why hasn't he been arrested yet? I think they'd want to do more than just interview him.

Narcotics trafficking, mail fraud, money laundering, conspiracy to commit murder...Variety Jones' CV is rather extensive, to put it that way!

Possible, that they're still investigating on him and the arrest is about to come. Also there is still a small chance, that VJ is a mole for LE and is already working on other darknet sites.

[cadaf]

VJ is Plural of Mongoose aka Thomas Clark. Should be easy for LE to find him for an interview.

If he really is Thomas Clark, then why hasn't he been arrested yet? I think they'd want to do more than just interview him.

Narcotics trafficking, mail fraud, money laundering, conspiracy to commit murder...Variety Jones' CV is rather extensive, to put it that way!

Possible, that they still investigating on him and the arrest is about to come. Also there is still a small chance, that VJ is a mole for LE and is already working on other darknet sites.

first heard this name on here late last night after the bar.. did some poking around.... hes already got legal cases in the works.... but seems hard to rationailze...to me..... that someone so already "on the radar" for lack of a better term.... could be so far from prevelant in the authorities eyes......thus far on a case like this.


not to just aimlessly shoot down theroys here....not trying to be that guy...but im genuinely interested in who tf this is.........

[cadaf]

I believe VJ was a government mole on the Silk Road. If the (US) Government is after you, there is no place to hide. They'll literally stop at nothing and spare no expense to take down their mark.

I was actually surprised it took them so long to arrest Ross. They had direct access to DPR on pidgin, so why not deploy a zero-day exploit and take over his machine? They had no moral qualms about exploiting a javascript vulnerability on Tormail, so why not use a similar strategy against DPR? Half a dozen vulnerabilities are found and fixed on Firefox with every release, so it couldn't have been that hard, especially considering neither Ross nor Variety Jones were using Ubuntu with a standard install of the Tor Browser Bundle instead of a privacy oriented distro like Tails or Whonix.

most logical answer however...............

I have distribution cases.... of a schedule 1.... and they dont typically hold out on bringing everything to light in a case.... granted this is a extreme circumstance and alot of other rules have already been broken etc etc........


but I feel like if it were that easy of an answer...there would have been some indication some shred of evidence that would have made there case that much stronger if they outed vj as one of there own..... but they dident


you know? thats where I get caught up in that mole shit........



shit VJ could be fuggin Snowden....



lulz




 

[bigasic]

Heres Carls force financials for 2014. he received a tax refund of 150k, lol, i think hell be looking at tax fraud as well.. Looks like FOX paid him 20k and thats just to secure his rights, im sure he is owed much more...

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2070122-gov-uscourts-cand-286034-22-0.html

[bennybong]

Silk Road: Undercover agent admits stealing Bitcoin:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-33364349

[freedombit]

Words from Mark yesterday:

http://www.magicaltux.net/post/124057497654/silk-road-timeline

And now today, police possibly charging Mark:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3f71p2/bitcoin_exchange_ceo_mark_karpeles_to_be_charged/

EDIT:

Where are the addresses?

If there was a theft, then Mark had the addresses, and so do Japanese police. The addresses will have to come out now.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/33k23y/where_are_the_mtgox_addresses/

[Kakmakr]

It's about #@$ time that he face justice. Let's see if his conspiracy theories can hold up in a court. It's one thing to spew out a lot of nonsense to fabricate a story, it's another thing to prove it. He has all the odds stacked up against him, if you compare him to Ross's case.

He should have left the sleeping dogs, but he just had to poke it, and now they are showing him their teeth. They will come down on him like a ton of bricks now.

He had loads of time to prepare for his defense, so let's see if he can protect himself against the biting dogs. Bring the popcorn, this will be fun to watch. ^HeH^

[Bit_Happy]

Here we go boys and girls..... a hour of your day well fucking spent/



http://www.wired.com/2015/04/silk-road-1/




cannnnnnnot wait for part two

"...This was what the team had been waiting for: a misconfiguration somewhere on the site that revealed the real IP address of Silk Road, which Tarbell proceeded to trace all the way to the state-of-the-art facility in Iceland.

Tarbell had been to the island nation once before and knew some of the officials at the meeting. There was an Icelandic prosecutor present—Tarbell was mildly distracted by how attractive she was, with her fitted skirt, secretary glasses, and hair in a bun—and an attaché from the US embassy. It’s a delicate thing, making requests of another government—a US attorney had written up an official letters rogatory petition, requesting that Iceland honor the bureau’s investigative requests—but the Icelandic authorities were accommodating, and the meeting was over in an hour. Not long thereafter, an Icelandic police detachment entered the immaculate foyer of the Thor Data Center."

Awesome article, thanks for helping me find it. 

[shogdite]

Words from Mark yesterday:

http://www.magicaltux.net/post/124057497654/silk-road-timeline

And now today, police possibly charging Mark:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3f71p2/bitcoin_exchange_ceo_mark_karpeles_to_be_charged/

EDIT:

Where are the addresses?

If there was a theft, then Mark had the addresses, and so do Japanese police. The addresses will have to come out now.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/33k23y/where_are_the_mtgox_addresses/

It's about time they busted that fraud. It's not like we don't know that he single handedly brought the price of btc up to $1200 each. He's still a criminal and should be punished to the full extent of the law.