They say how much bitcoins were mined using those fed reserve servers?
Since they are feds property wouldn't they ask for those coins?
Sort of like how they confiscated all the bitcoins from silk road and auctioned them off.
Didn't they realize that he made more than just $5000 using their own hardware while he was employed?
I think he got sentenced very lightly since he was a former fed agent.
Favourtism maybe?
From a different article that says more about it but it does not say how much in bitcoin he managed to mine during that time. Wouldn't an investigation by the bureau themselves reveal this so to substantiate the proper amount to fine and the right amount of time to prosecute him for?
"A former Federal Reserve employee was sentenced to 12 months’ probation and issued a $5,000 fine for installing unauthorized bitcoin software on a Fed server, a government watchdog said Monday.
Nicholas Berthaume, who worked as a network systems communications analyst at the Fed board in Washington, installed the software so he could connect to an online bitcoin network to earn bitcoins, the Fed’s inspector general said. The software was in place from about March 2012 to June 2014, according to a court document.
He was subsequently fired, the IG said, and struck a deal in October to plead guilty in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to one misdemeanor charge of unlawful use of government property, a charge that carried a fine of up to $100,000 and a year in jail. He received his sentence Friday.."
Source:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/former-fed-employee-fined-for-installing-bitcoin-software-on-fed-server-1485791030?mod=e2tw