A former Drug Enforcement Administration agent who led the investigation of the illegal Silk Road Internet drug emporium was sentenced to 78 months in prison Oct. 19 for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars in digital currency during the probe (United States v. Bridgessentencing).
A defense lawyer failed to win sympathy for Carl Mark Force IV from a federal judge, with the attorney blaming the government for “poor supervision” of Force while his mental health was in decline.
Judge Richard Seeborg called Force’s fraud clever, sophisticated and “devious,” adding that the ex-agent “was the master of his fate ...
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