Then-Drug Enforcement Administration DEA Special Agent Carl Force IV and then-United States Secret Service USSS Agent Shaun Bridges were both implicated in a scheme to profit from their position in the investigation and their own illegal use of the Silk Road platform.
In the photo, Force, aka Guzman, aka Nob, held up a sign: all hail nob.
Months later, in January 2012, he got some good news from his supervisor.
René had been an aspiring filmmaker who instead wound up in technology in San Francisco, and one day he phoned Ross, intoning the great American clarion call of opportunity out West.