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"Why yes, the wallet we found was empty. Totally empty."


Back in 2015 two rogue U.S. Secret Service agents, Shaun Bridges and Carl Mark Force, were caught and sentenced to prison for stealing funds while investigating the first high profile darknet market the Silk Road. Shaun Bridges plead guilty for moving 1,600 bitcoins of seized bitcoins confiscated by federal authorities.


You can't steal in the course of an investigation what was already stolen as part of the crime.


> You can't steal in the course of an investigation what was already stolen as part of the crime.

Sorry, what?




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