Yes, the agents probably deserve longer sentences than Ulbricht, if only because they misused State power, which is inherently worse than any private activity.
But we should get the authors and participants in the torture regime first.
But we should get the authors and participants in the torture regime first.
Asking because I’ve read the story of Silk Road but didn’t hear about this other than the bitcoin theft
what can be worse abuse of state power than that, or what other purpose for abusing state power other than money? It seems that everything else what they did kind of flows from the theft.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-silk-road-task-force-a... :
>Bridges’ plea agreement also established that he obstructed the Baltimore federal grand jury’s investigations of Silk Road and Ulbricht in a number of ways, including by impeding the ability of the investigation to fully utilize a cooperator’s access to Silk Road.
That grand jury indictment in Baltimore based on false info from those agents was the reason for denying bail to Ulbricht, and basically prejudiced the judge in the main case.
>According to his plea agreement, Bridges admitted that in January 2013 he used an administrator account on the Silk Road website
There seems to be enough indications to support for a variety of speculations like for example that the agents may have scapegoated Ulbricht, say may be he was an admin or a dev there and was made into the "kingpin", or something like this. Again it is impossible to say anything for sure as the trial wasn't just a fruit of poison tree, it were total poisoned deadlands.
Except that it would be, you know, actual work.