Is it possible, that FORCE presents his UC job as a main reason he commited these crimes? I mean, as a DEA agent it is possibly really hard to resist that temptation, when you have access to big amounts of "drug money" on a regular basis. This could lower the sentence significantly.
I think that because he was a DEA official that they will be harder on him, meaning charging him with everything they can. shit like this really hurts the federal government, especially with current cases. you could see a lot of his arrests come out of the word work and accuse carl of doing the same thing to them, etc. In my neck of the woods, a few years ago, a couple of local cops where planting evidence, stealing drugs out of wherever they store them, and doing illegal searches, etc. what got them caught is that they shot a defendant and killed him, one cop was actually charged. the other one lost his job and pension,etc. They had to let out like 40 federal prisoners, and countless state prisoners that these dirty cops had arrested. So, it could cause a domino effect, with Carl, not just on the Silk road case, but on any case he has touched. Like i said before, i believe that they could technically charge him with the same crimes that they charged indigo, and the others with. Carl was paid for helping out silk road. the only real problem is can the govt prove that he was all these alt characters, not just the one that was known by his bosses.
I think he made a few mistakes, on one of the "french maid" posts to DPR, i think it was french made, he had several and french maid is the only one that i can remember. well in one of the posts, he actually signed it with his real first name "carl" he very quickly resent another pm saying "sorry, i sometimes go by the name of carla" or something that was very unbelievable. but, the govt has issues with a lot of the pms because he made dpr use pgp with their communication. Now, one possibility that could happen is that they give some sort of deal to DPR, lets say, 10 years off his sentence, for flipping on carl and providing the pgp code for their communication. Im sure they have sent all of Carls computers to highly trained experts, maybe even the NSA, to try and figure out those pgp communcation, because thats where most of the evidence is... I think the NSA can legally work on it because they could argue it could affect national security, especially if they have one of their own working with illegal organiztions. It will all play out, like i said, I dont think that those two have even been officially charged, just a formal complaint has been filed.. so they are most likely trying to compile all the evidence before they hand out the charges...
But, on the flip side with them going easier on carl for your reasoning. think about if a doctor starts taking medication illegally (like splitting a patients prescription, or forging a script, etc), if a citizen did that, they would be thrown in jail, but doctors usually get one chance of going to rehab and getting their license back. so, in the govt, there is a double standard. Lets hope that doesn't happen here. with the govt having so many issues with the DEA and secret service, i dont think they will be light on anyone....