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Re:FBI struggles to seize 600,000 Bitcoins from alleged Silk... by pessimizer on Monday October 07, 2013 @09:00AM (#6507887)
If you steal money and invest it, should you be allowed to retain the capital gains?

And honestly, when it comes to America and drugs, I'm pretty sure that they have the legal authority to seize and sell the router at the coffee shop computer they traced him to once.

edit: humorous typo.

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Re:FBI struggles to seize 600,000 Bitcoins from alleged Silk... by rustynails on Monday October 07, 2013 @10:47AM (#6508559)
>If you steal money and invest it, should you be allowed to retain the capital gains?

There are MANY examples of this, so yes. However, it usually applies to the wealthy, so they most probably have better legal representation.

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Re:FBI struggles to seize 600,000 Bitcoins from alleged Silk... by SwellJoe on Monday October 07, 2013 @04:23PM (#6510978)
DPR is among the wealthy...or, was. He seems to have failed to build up a network of support that a wealthy criminal would need to defend that wealth. He must have been too busy running his empire to watch Breaking Bad and The Sopranos, to learn about how all this stuff works.
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