Undercover federal agents in Silk Road case accused of fraud
by Nicky Woolf in New York from Technology | The Guardian on (#63G4)
DEA agent Carl Force accused of extorting thousands' worth of bitcoin from convicted money-launderer Ross Ulbricht, while second agent also charged
"French Maid" wasn't Carl Force's officially sanctioned darknet alias.
In his capacity as an undercover Drug Enforcement Agency agent, and a senior member of the team investigating the deep-web drug market Silk Road and its owner, Force used the alias "Nob".
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