[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9365]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           RECOGNIZING JARED 
                             DER-YEGHIAYAN

  (Mr. DOLD asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DOLD. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the great 
achievement of
a 10th District hero, Jared Der-Yeghiayan.
  Working with the FBI and the DEA, Special Agent Der-Yeghiayan served 
as the lead special agent from the Department of Homeland Security to 
shut down the notorious black market Web site Silk Road.
  For more than 2 years, Special Agent Der-Yeghiayan worked undercover 
to infiltrate the Silk Road network, an underground Web site used by 
thousands of drug dealers and criminals to facilitate drug sales and 
illegal activity around the globe.
  His innovative cyber investigation led to thousands of drug seizures, 
dozens of arrests, and the successful conviction of the owner and 
operator of the Silk Road Web site. In helping bringing down this dark 
Web site, Jared Der-Yeghiayan has left his mark in making this country 
a safer and more secure place.
  I am honored to have Jared as a constituent of Illinois' 10th 
District; I thank him for his service to this Nation, and I look 
forward to many more bright achievements in the future.

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