Investigators in Silk Road case charged with stealing bitcoins

Two former fed­er­al agents at the cen­ter of an in­vest­ig­a­tion in­to an un­der­ground web­site that sup­posedly fa­cil­it­ated mil­lions of dol­lars in black mar­ket drug deals have been ac­cused of steal­ing di­git­al cur­rency dur­ing the probe and charged with theft of gov­ern­ment prop­erty, wire fraud and money laun­der­ing.