Agent who stole $820K from Silk Road is trying to flee, prosecutors say

Cop charged with stealing $820K from Silk Road is trying to run, prosecutors claim

After his admitted reign as a corrupt Dark Net cop came crashing down, former Secret Service agent Shaun Bridges says he found himself in the crosshairs of identity thieves, car thieves, and the prosecution.

Now, prosecutors claim, Bridges is trying to flee justice.

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The prosecution does not believe the theft of Bridges' belongings happened, and they charge, instead, that Bridges was attempting to gain identity documents "to which he is not entitled."

The documents Bridges may have received "carry all sorts of privileges," prosecutors argued. They could be used to obtain other forms of ID, justify carrying concealed weapons, or be used to enter government buildings without going through ordinary security channels.

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[67 Points] MO_Drugs:

from the article

After prosecutors and U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg found out about the move, thanks to enterprising Maryland state employees, the court ordered electronic monitoring on Bridges, a new curfew

unfucking real that this other cunt who entrapped DPR into a double life sentence and stole $1,000,000 of drug money has been on unrestricted bail. The world is mighty fucked up.


[18 Points] _florida_man:

You just can't write this shit...


[10 Points] Vendor_BBMC:

Silk Road ran for a very long time, handling large amounts of cryptocurrency. I think the only thing preventing it from becoming completely corrupt was Ross' libertarian zeal. He wasn't really doing it for the money and continued to live in shared accommodation like a student. The forum moderators were a bunch of shitbags, but we probably don't know the names of the marketplace admins who made decisions involving money.

The best thing about the first Silk Road was that vendor bonds were HUGE (I sold my car to pay for mine), and vendors got kicked off for the slightest thing. Ross made it a very safe place to trade for both customers and vendors who just wanted to sell their shit sunday.

Unfortunately, marketplace admins are like diapers. They need to be changed regularly - and for the same reason. And Ross had solved so many problems to conjure up "the silk road model" of Tor, bitcoin, escrow and feedback that he was always going to continue to failure. there was no retirement strategy or exit scam plan.

I'm glad I got to be a vendor there, but I don't miss it. I joined in its last few months of its operation. Right from the start, I noticed that the number of bitcoin in my wallet never tallied with what I expected from my sales, but I thought "computers don't make calculation mistakes. Lay off the drugs, Redbook".

It wasn't the drugs. Never blame the drugs. Never speak ill of the meth, for the meth speedeth thy journey. If you're destined for greatness or obscurity, success or a sticky end, the meth just gets you there faster

I wasn't imagining it. It was police and thieves on the street - or road in this instance.

I knew something was wrong, so I enabled silk Road's "auto-withdraw" feature so that as soon as somebody released the escrow, it was sent offsite to one of three bitcoin addresses the vendor specified. It wouldn't be on the site long enough to steal it.

I would receive my takings, then it would stop. I'd login, only to find that the bitcoin was being withdrawn to somebody else's wallets. The automatic withdraw wallet addresses I'd typed in had changed!

I changed them back - it happened again! I disabled the feature by unticking it, went to bed, woke up, it was ticked again! This was the last week before Silk Road was "seized",.When it was shut down, I assumed that LE had been running it the last two weeks and taking as much drug money out of circulation as possible - they got 59,000 btc.

I've since realized that this was just a one day "snapshot" of bitcoin in wallets and escrow the day Ross was nabbed at the library. When news emerged of the bent cops with admin rights, it suddenly made sense.

Silk road was as slow as fuck. Page changes would take 5 minutes. It was stealing from me. But I don't regret the 2 months I traded on there because I learned a lot.


[10 Points] None:

thanks to enterprising Maryland state employees,

'Enterprising' not 'good samaritan'? Wonder what he got out of it


[5 Points] None:

Start cooking a bag of popcorn


[3 Points] SecondChanceUsername:

Maybe this will back fire against LE. Now that LEOs know they wouldn't be facing that bad of a sentence and the risk/reward is huge. Maybe some more agents will provide our admins with counter-Intel and help with disinfo in exchange for bribes. And there's plenty of agents who wouldn't have been like those two dipshits and will actually know how to hide their kickbacks.


[5 Points] niggasinthelagoon:

One of us

One of us

One of us


[3 Points] None:

Who wouldn't flee in his situation?


[2 Points] None:

Jeezus tap dancing batmans


[1 Points] sinbintim88:

I hope he ends up in a cell with big buba


[1 Points] railcarhobo:

Un-freakin-believable


[1 Points] shitterplug:

Guy commits crime - he's the good guy

Guy commits crime - he's a bad guy

Make up your fucking minds already. God dammit.