Six years in the slammer for SilkRoad-skimming secret agent

Tuesday 8th December 2015 02:22 GMT The Nazz

If only ...

they'd stuck to legal and proper banking like the big financial firms do, they'd have walked away scott free with billions.

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1. Tuesday 8th December 2015 09:53 GMT Richard Taylor 2
  
  Re: If only ...
  
  If only he had been technically competent enough to properly - or even half heartedly (the FIBS may not have noticed) cover his tracks
  
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Tuesday 8th December 2015 04:38 GMT Winkypop

Six years porridge and a bad name

Hardly worth a measly 820K

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Tuesday 8th December 2015 11:18 GMT Anonymous Coward

So would it transpire

"Since the now-jailed Silk Road kingpin Ross Ulbricht assumed the admin, Curtis Green, was responsible for the theft, Bridges' actions put him in danger of his life"

If Ulbricht had been successful in getting Green killed. would Bridges be facing first degree murder charges?

should he not also be charged with attempted murder because of his actions by association?

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1. Tuesday 8th December 2015 11:48 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  Re: So would it transpire
  
  "should he not also be charged with attempted murder because of his actions by association?"
  
  Using that logic anyone driving a car with slighlty bald tyres should be charged with attempted murder, because , ya know - you *could* have skidded and killed someone. Just because you didn't....
  
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  1. Tuesday 8th December 2015 12:07 GMT TeeCee
    
    Re: So would it transpire
    
    ....which is why driving a car with slightly bald tyres gets you three points and a fat fine per tyre. It's taken rather seriously.
    
    All four substandard and that's yer license.....(!)
    
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    1. Tuesday 8th December 2015 13:38 GMT Yet Another Anonymous coward
      
      Re: So would it transpire
      
      That was a claim in a swatting case (dial 911 claim you are being robbed and give a false address - the SWAT team break in and shoot the victim) that is was attempted murder
      
      However the prosecutor would have to show that the police SWAT team would likely shoot to kill an unarmed occupant of the house.
      
      No prosecutor wants to upset the police so the case is unlikely to go anywhere
      
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      1. Tuesday 8th December 2015 14:03 GMT HausWolf
        
        Re: So would it transpire
        
        Actually in the US, yes, the SWAT team very well could kill an unarmed, innocent person. Would not be the first time. After all, they have used a stun grenade in an infants crib recently.
        
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        Tuesday 8th December 2015 17:47 GMT Yet Another Anonymous coward
        
        Re: So would it transpire
        
        It could have been a terrorist baby ....
        
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Tuesday 8th December 2015 13:03 GMT John Smith 19

So the old adage is true

If you've got a lot of drug (money) you'd better keep it in a safe place or the DEA might come and steal if from you.

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1. Tuesday 8th December 2015 14:26 GMT Eddy Ito
  
  Re: So the old adage is true
  
  Given the current state of asset forfeiture laws in the U.S. it only need be something of value and could be perfectly legal.
  
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Tuesday 8th December 2015 14:15 GMT knarf

Major Fail at the core secret part

Maybe he'll be better making license plates.

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Tuesday 8th December 2015 17:04 GMT thedroog

twats

"so the crime deserved a sentence near the top of the scale"

6 years is not top of the scale.... Life without parole is

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1. Tuesday 8th December 2015 17:46 GMT Pascal Monett
  
  Not a judge, are you ?
  
  I have news for you : the scale depends on the crime.
  
  More news : stealing is generally considered less bad than murder.
  
  That's why the officers usually do not shoot you when they catch you over the speed limit.
  
  Where "life without parole" fits in all this is an exercise I'll leave to your discovery.
  
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  1. Tuesday 8th December 2015 17:53 GMT Yet Another Anonymous coward
    
    A federal investigator stealing and blackmailing the person he is investigating is worse than murder.
    
    It puts the entire police / government / judicial system at risk.
    
    Anybody here trust the police? Anybody going to witness a crime? Anybody going to help with an investigation?
    
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Tuesday 8th December 2015 17:04 GMT Anonymous Coward

As ye sow

So shall ye receive. Just another crim that belongs in the slammer.

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Tuesday 8th December 2015 18:23 GMT Anonymous Coward

Proportionate

Maybe he should have got at least the same sentence as the Silk Road guy, after all he benefitted from it as well and has blackmail, extortion, reckless endangerment, breach of trust and could have derailed other criminal cases

6 years is a pretty light sentence by US standards

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1. Tuesday 8th December 2015 22:00 GMT Version 1.0
  
  Re: Proportionate
  
  "6 years is a pretty light sentence by US standards"
  
  I guess he must be a white guy.
  
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Tuesday 8th December 2015 20:46 GMT Anonymous Coward

Accessory

If the person he impersonated was one of the people that ulbricht was prosecuted for threatening to kill them he's an accessory or certainly needs to be charged in some way for it. It's not like it was a legal, innocent act where he couldn't have foreseen the possible outcome.

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Tuesday 8th December 2015 22:04 GMT Version 1.0

"6 years is a pretty light sentence by US standards"

However, since he's a cop, I would expect that it will be 6 years in solitary confinement - if he's lucky, otherwise is might turn out to be a short life sentence.

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Tuesday 8th December 2015 23:27 GMT Anonymous Coward

Doesn't the US have enough bent law enforcement officers in custody now to warrant building them their own prison?

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