DEA agent Carl Mark Force IV pleads guilty to money laundering, obstruction of justice and extortion. Force was part of a multi-agency task force investigating the Silk Road, an underground marketplace for goods such as drugs and fake ID documents. Force could face up to 20 years in prison on each of the counts. Silk Road’s operator, Ross Ulbricht, plans to appeal based in part on Force’s actions of Force and a Secret Service investigator, Shaun Bridges, who also took bitcoins from the site.”]
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