Ross Ulbricht, founder of Silk Road, was convicted in 2015 for operating the online black market and sentenced to life imprisonment. He received a pardon from former U.S. President Donald Trump on ...

After he lost the 2020 election, Mr. Trump considered freeing Mr. Ulbricht, and at least one lobbyist was paid $22,500 to help secure his release, according to financial forms. But Mr. Trump left ...

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President Donald Trump said Tuesday he issued a pardon for Ross Ulbricht, who was sentenced to life in prison nearly a decade ago for creating the Silk Road, a website law enforcement called the ...

President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he had granted a pardon to Ross William Ulbricht, the founder of the Silk Road dark web marketplace. Ulbricht, who was accused of creating the shadowy ...

Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the online drug marketplace Silk Road, received a full and unconditional pardon on Tuesday from President Donald Trump, who announced the move in a Truth Social post ...

It started as a bold experiment – a Wild West style online marketplace where anything could be sold and no questions were asked. But the Silk Road, one of the first and most notorious dark web ...

President Trump announced Tuesday that he has pardoned Ross Ulbricht, the founder of Silk Road, an underground website that the FBI once called "the most sophisticated and extensive criminal ...

Ross Ulbricht was serving a life sentence for creating a site in a shady corner of the internet to sell heroin, cocaine and other illicit substances. By David Yaffe-Bellany and Ryan Mac President ...

President Trump announced Tuesday that he signed a full pardon for Ross Ulbricht, the Silk Road founder who was sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of running the dark web ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... President Donald Trump signed a full and unconditional pardon Tuesday for Ross Ulbricht, the founder and creator of darknet website Silk ...