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IRS Poses as Bitcoin Trader ‘Mr Coins’ in $180,000 Sting

submitted by mikenigger to news 3.7 yearsSep 6, 2021 09:14:23 ago (+12/-0)     (archive.vn)

https://archive.vn/IwPGq



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[ - ] 2Drunk 3 points 3.7 yearsSep 6, 2021 09:20:57 ago (+3/-0)

Yet they let in millions of pedophiles daily. They don't have the "resources" to check everyone crossing the border.

[ - ] SparklingWiggle 2 points 3.7 yearsSep 6, 2021 10:01:54 ago (+2/-0)

I'm not sure how sending $28k through the mail to buy bitcoin proves he's a drug dealer or is illegal in and of itself. This article is severely lacking and just seems to fearmonger.

[ - ] mikenigger [op] 1 point 3.7 yearsSep 6, 2021 10:17:45 ago (+1/-0)

didn't notice the article is blogspam, source: https://archive.vn/zLy9m (https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2021/09/01/irs-undercover-on-a-bitcoin-and-cryptocurrency-trading-site-in-180000-sting)

Come March this year, investigators were getting ready to home in on the conclusion to the sting operation. A $28,000 cash package from Hite was intercepted and marked as lost by the Postal Service, according to the IRS, which then monitored calls to the post office, waiting for the suspect to call and complain. Investigators linked this call with a phone number that was paid for by Hite.

Further messages over Wickr indicated Hite was involved in dark web drug sales, claiming to sell “pills and opioids,” as well as cocaine and marijuana, the IRS claimed. As they deepened their relationship, the undercover officer agreed to provide Hite with a loan, by which the suspect would send $54,000 in cash and get $79,000 worth of cryptocurrency in return, according to the search warrant. When that last package arrived, forensics took fingerprints and linked them to Hite, the government added.

[ - ] SparklingWiggle 2 points 3.7 yearsSep 6, 2021 10:21:52 ago (+2/-0)

Cool. That makes sense now. Does it explain why the IRS is doing the job of the DEA? Also, what are the odds that Hite is an undercover FBI agent?

[ - ] mikenigger [op] 0 points 3.7 yearsSep 6, 2021 11:16:46 ago (+0/-0)

they weren't looking for drugs but found them anyway, if the guy is fbi there wouldn't be a criminal case.

[ - ] Version6 1 point 3.7 yearsSep 6, 2021 11:39:44 ago (+1/-0)

So another fed agency entrapping people. Wonderful.

[ - ] account deleted by user 1 point 3.7 yearsSep 6, 2021 10:27:51 ago (+1/-0)

account deleted by user

[ - ] mikenigger [op] 0 points 3.7 yearsSep 6, 2021 21:36:45 ago (+0/-0)

hi, postal service? you guys lost my drug money, please find it.

[ - ] wypipo 0 points 3.7 yearsSep 6, 2021 14:15:59 ago (+0/-0)

And maybe one day these same people will get around to uncovering the Clinton corruption and all the other political pay to play stuff. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[ - ] Prairie 0 points 3.7 yearsSep 6, 2021 14:13:16 ago (+0/-0)

Reap Bitcoin profits by buying precious metals from APMEX etc.