DEA Agent Charged With Acting as a Paid Mole for Silk Road

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Nearly 18 months after the Silk Road online drug market was busted by law enforcement, the criminal charges rippling out from the case have now come full circle.

Publish date

March 30, 2015

Publisher

Wired

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https://www.wired.com/2015/03/dea-agent-charged-acting-paid-mole-silk-road

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Gambaryan describes how Bridges participated in the Baltimore Task Force arrest and questioning of Silk Road employee Curtis Green in Utah, and then used Green’s administrator account on the Silk Road to pull off a “series of sizable thefts” from Silk Road vendors.

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Bridges is accused of placing $800,000 of Silk Road bitcoins he obtained in a personal account on the Mt. Gox bitcoin exchange.

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