Trump Pardons Ross Ulbricht After Urging Death Penalty For Drug Dealers
In a move that has sparked debate, President Donald Trump granted a full pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the Silk Road dark web marketplace, who had been serving two life sentences plus 40 years for enabling the illegal trade of drugs and other illicit goods. People using his site traded in bitcoin to avoid detection.
Trump pardons Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht for online drug scheme
U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday pardoned Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, who was sentenced to life in prison for running an underground online marketplace where drug dealers and others conducted more than $200 million in illicit trade using bitcoin.
Ross Ulbricht, pardoned by Donald Trump, was a pioneer of crypto-crime
Until, of course, in 2013 the Silk Road was shut down by FBI agents and Mr Ulbricht, then 29 years old, was arrested in the science-fiction section of a San Francisco public library. In 2015, after a four-week trial,
Meet Silk Road’s Ross Ulbricht, just pardoned by Donald Trump: the Texan physics major was serving life in prison for running the illegal drug marketplace, and known as Dread Pirate Roberts online
Penn State graduate Ross Ulbricht was sentenced to life in prison for running Silk Road, a drug marketplace on the dark web that conducted more than US$200 million in illegal drugs trade using bitcoin On the first day of Donald Trump's second presidency,
Silk Road founder pardoned by Trump 11 years into double life sentences lauds president as ‘a man of his word’
Ross Ulbricht was convicted in 2015 for running a site on the dark web that sold drugs and other contraband items
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