Quote from: duke1839 on January 18, 2015, 05:10:31 PM

Quote from: yobloggs on January 18, 2015, 10:45:48 AM

Quote from: duke1839 on January 18, 2015, 04:05:38 AM

...they all said no but it could have been law enforcement from another team unrelated to his investigation.

It's terrible but that actually made me lol.

His main worry throughout the investigation was that some other law enforcement was going to screw it up. DerYeghiayan was furious with other agents for seizing Karpeles' websites and meeting with his attorneys. He was afraid to tip Karpeles off that he was a target in the Silk Road investigation. The defense's story will likely be that Karpeles found out they were closing in on him on Silk Road and set up Ulbricht to save his own skin.

This would be possible, but I don't think mark would be smart enough to pull something like that off.

I was also under the impression that DHS seized Gox's US bank account was a way to try to get them to strengthen their AML policies to make it easier to find when people from SR were selling on gox as it was believed that many were (at least this is what I remember from MSM news reports at the time)