SAN FRANCISCO — It’s been nearly 18 months since federal agents arrested Ross Ulbricht in a San Francisco public library for running the online black market and drug bazaar Silk Road under the pseudonym Dread Pirate Roberts.
On Monday, six weeks after Ulbricht’s conviction, an even more bizarre plot unfolded. Federal prosecutors in the Northern District of California unsealed a criminal complaint accusing two former federal agents of using their roles on a task force investigating Silk Road to steal, blackmail and otherwise siphon off hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of digital currency.
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