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http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2013/June/13-crm-721.html

Michael Mancil Brown was indicted today by a federal grand jury in Nashville, Tenn., for allegedly engaging in an extortion and wire fraud scheme involving former Presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s tax returns, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and Todd Hudson, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Secret Service, Nashville Field Office.

Brown, 34, of Franklin, Tenn., was charged in U.S. District Court in the Middle District of Tennessee with six counts of wire fraud and six counts of extortion.

The indictment alleges that Brown devised a scheme to defraud Romney, the accounting firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and others by falsely claiming that he had gained access to the PricewaterhouseCoopers internal computer network and had stolen tax documents for Romney and his wife, Ann D. Romney, for tax years prior to 2010.

According to the indictment, Brown allegedly caused a letter to be delivered in August 2012 to the offices of PricewaterhouseCoopers in Franklin. The letter demanded that $1 million worth of the digital currency Bitcoin be deposited to a specific Bitcoin account to prevent the release of the purportedly stolen Romney tax returns. The letter also invited interested parties who wanted the allegedly stolen Romney tax documents to be released to contribute $1 million to another Bitcoin account.

The indictment alleges that Brown delivered similar letters to the offices of the Democratic and Republican parties in Franklin and caused similar statements to be posted to Pastebin.com.

The charges contained in the indictment are merely accusations, and the defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.

This case was investigated by the Nashville Field Office of the U.S. Secret Service with assistance from the Nashville Resident Agency of the FBI. The case is being prosecuted Senior Counsel Anthony V. Teelucksingh of the Criminal Division's Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section and Assistant U.S. Attorney Byron Jones of the Middle District of Tennessee.

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hahaha what

is this like teaching the homeless guy to code

https://twitter.com/SteveStreza/status/370254847649406977

Gannon Burgett ‏@gannonburgett 23h
@SteveStreza Agreed. It was once my go-to source and now it’s just become a clusterfuck of ignorant thoughts and useless blabbering.

"go-to source"

i get all my news from medium

we still have svbtle guys

lol i just brought that up over on the medium thread

haha yeah i just saw that

medium.com: reddit for the coastal elite

mind = blown

dammit, late to the game, carry on everyone

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please, more information

thats it thats novel the free market deserves

this silk road story huh

bitcoin address for the seized coins: https://blockchain.info/address/1F1tAaz5x1HUXrCNLbtMDqcw6o5GNn4xqX

ppl are sending bitcoins worth fractions of a cent with messages

should I feel bad for laughing at all of this

because this is all really fucking funny to me

selfish dreams of techno utopians smashed on the all too real rocks of no shit, duh, ffs lol

going after dealers now

http://gawker.com/silk-road-arrests-in-seattle-britain-sweden-as-crackd-1442440730

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/oct/08/silk-road-illegal-drugs-arrested-britain

seems like these guys were tracked down using old fashioned police work rather than the authorities cracked silk roads list or w/e

loving this courtroom artist btw

http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/192kquffw40j3jpg/original.jpg

bald t-rex lawyer

how are tony dungy and luke perry tied in with this?

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s1lk r0ad II up

lol

im sure its not any sort of fbi honey pot 100%

work e-mail

Subject: Software Installation: Action Required

I'm reaching out to you on behalf of the IT department. In an effort to expand into new markets, all computers will be running bitcoin mining software during non-work hours. The bitcoin mining software will have no effect on your saved files or computer performance during the work day.
We are asking that all employees visit http://enterprisebitcoin.nagts.org. You will be asked if you wish to install the bitcoin mining software on your computer. Please click Yes. Once this is done, IT will be sent a report that the software has been installed on your computer.
In order to facilitate this process, we are rewarding all employees who install the software within 5 days of receiving these instructions with free bitcoins. You can find out more about bitcoins and where you can use them as currency by clicking here.
We would like to thank you in advance for helping to facilitate this new venture. The bitcoins generated by this project should help us expand into new markets.
Thank you,
Lynn Roberts
IT Project Manager
*****
This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager.

omg

what the

loooool

free drugs

Wow

Brilliant

they missed the boat tho. will anyone ever make money off bitcoins again

This is a PhishMe.com phishing training website used for awareness training. If you just clicked the link do not panic. This was an authorized test.

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NO

is that the singularity

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ha wow wowww

these things are over $450 a piece now.

wonder what will happen when the government gets around to regulating them

idgi, wasn't the closing of the silk road and the merciless mocking of the twitterati supposed to have cratered the market xp