DEA Agent Ordered to Forfeit $500,000 in Funds He Stole During Silk Road Case

By July 15, 2015Bitcoin Business

Carl Force IV, a 46-year-old member of Baltimore’s Silk Road task force and former U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent, has been ordered to forfeit around US$500,000 in cash and bitcoin that he “confiscated” while investigating the Silk Road case.

The criminal complaint filed against Force on March 25 read: “FORCE stole and converted to his own personal use a sizeable amount of bitcoins that DPR sent to FORCE in FORCE’s official undercover capacity and rather […]

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