<story><title>Two Federal Agents in Silk Road Case Face Fraud Charges</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/31/nyregion/silk-road-case-federal-agents-charges.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>deftnerd</author><text>I wonder if the government buried this until after the Ulbricht trial was over. The fact that two of the investigators were corrupt and stealing funds could have derailed the case.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>It turns out one of them was &lt;i&gt;probably on Ulbricht&amp;#x27;s payroll:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.wired.com&amp;#x2F;2015&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;dea-agent-charged-acting-paid-mole-silk-road&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.wired.com&amp;#x2F;2015&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;dea-agent-charged-acting-paid-m...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Two Federal Agents in Silk Road Case Face Fraud Charges</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/31/nyregion/silk-road-case-federal-agents-charges.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>deftnerd</author><text>I wonder if the government buried this until after the Ulbricht trial was over. The fact that two of the investigators were corrupt and stealing funds could have derailed the case.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fweespeech</author><text>The Ulbricht case that went to trial was a different investigative team. [e.g. These agents were not involved]&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The charges stem from the agents’ role in one of the federal investigations into Silk Road; a separate Manhattan-based investigation ultimately led to the filing of charges against the website’s founder, Ross W. Ulbricht, who was convicted last month on numerous counts. The website was also shut down by the authorities.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The Baltimore investigation resulted in an indictment of Mr. Ulbricht on a charge of murder for hire, but that case has remained pending and the evidence in support of it was kept out of the New York trial, apparently because of the investigation into the agents.&lt;p&gt;However, I&amp;#x27;m pretty sure the &amp;quot;murder for hire&amp;quot; trial is going to die quietly because of these agents.</text></comment>