Wired, in "Feds Reveal What They Really Think About Bitcoin", provides a letter to Congress related to the Bitcoin hearings: PDF, Scribd. Emphasis added:
U.S. Department of Homeland Security; Current Secret Service Investigations and Seizures: Baltimore Field Office
The U.S. Secret Service (USSS) has partnered with Immigration and
Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), Drug
Enforcement Agency, U.S. Postal Inspection Service, and Internal
Revenue Service (IRS) on an investigation into the Silk Road, a black
market criminal marketplace located on The Onion Router network. Silk
Road acts as a criminal eBay, allowing the purchase of counterfeit and
genuine identification, counterfeit currency, narcotics, weapons,
biological agents, and criminal services. The sole currency accepted and
transacted on Silk Road is Bitcoins. The site has an annual revenue
stream of over $250 million and a user base in excess of 300,000. The
purpose of this investigation has been to focus on the identification of
the site's main administrator, referred to as Dread Pirate Roberts
(DPR).
Of recent noteworthy interest was the determination that the
suspect who had sent Ricin to President Obama earlier this year was a
vendor on the Silk Road site. A critical component in this
investigation has been the ongoing undercover operation between an
undercover agent (agency undisclosed per AUSA) and the site
administrator, which has resulted in the site administrator soliciting
the agent to commit a murder for hire, for which the government received
a total payment of $80,000.
On May 1, 2013, an arrest warrant was issued pursuant to a sealed
indictment in U.S. District Court of Maryland, charging DPR with
violations of Title 21 USC 846 (Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled
Substance), Title 18 USC 1512(a)(1)(c) (Attempted Witness Murder), Title
18 USC 1958(a) (Use of Interstate Commerce Facilities in Commission of
Murder-for-Hire), and Title 18 USC 2 (Aiding and Abetting). The
investigation has utilized numerous buy-thru operations for weapons,
identification, narcotics, and explosives to identify high value targets
on the site. The USSS is responsible for the forensics and cyber
analysis in this ongoing criminal investigation and, along with our
interagency partners, will attempt to identify the site's origin and the
identity of the site administrator. As a result of this ongoing
investigation, approximately $5.5 million has been seized by the USSS
and ICE-HSI.
There was only 1 letter sent to Obama in the recent ricin attacks, by Shannon Richardson; her husband has been cleared. She was tracked through the mail using the mail cover program we are all familiar with.
Confusingly, I am unable to find any indication on the clearnet,
SRF1, SRF1 vendors subforum, or SRF2 discussing Richardson or ricin as
having anything to do with Silk Road, and Richardson seem to have had to
ordered her ricin ingredients online according to http://www.ksla.com/story/22531795/sourc :
Later that night, in a search of the Richardson's home and property,
agents found a dozen small brown beans in rolling around loose in the
trunk of Nathan Richardson's car. They have since been determined to be
castor beans, from which ricin can be made.
Forensic investigators determined that two separate orders for castor
beans, syringes and bulk lye were placed from computers in the
Richardson home. Those items were found in the home, and samples of
various substances and items taken from the home tested positive for
ricin.
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