Convicted in 2015 for creating and operating the Silk Road, Ulbricht was serving a life sentence without parole before receiving a pardon from former U.S. President Donald Trump. He was granted a full ...

Libertarian activists, who generally oppose criminal drug policies, have long believed that government investigators overreached in building their case against Silk Road. Many held “Free Ross” signs. ...

By David Yaffe-Bellany and Ryan Mac President Trump on Tuesday granted a pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the Silk Road drug marketplace and a cult hero in the cryptocurrency and ...

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.

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 ...

President Trump said Tuesday he had signed a full pardon for Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the scandalous online marketplace Silk Road, fulfilling a campaign promise Trump had made to Libertarian ...

Ulbricht had been serving a life sentence for his role in founding and operating the dark web marketplace Silk Road. As Trump put it in a Truth Social post: "in honor of [his mother Lyn Ulbricht ...

Jan. 22 (UPI) --President Donald Trump on Tuesday evening said he issued a full and unconditional pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the dark web Silk Road marketplace of illicit drugs.

US President Donald Trump has given a full pardon to Ross Ulbricht, who has been in prison for 12 years for founding the defunct darknet marketplace the Silk Road. “I just called the mother of ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he had pardoned Ross Ulbricht, the founder of Silk Road, an underground website for selling drugs. Ulbricht had been sentenced to life ...

At Ulbricht’s trial, US prosecutors said he had built the anonymous marketplace, known as Silk Road, to exploit the anonymity of the dark web and the digital currency bitcoin. Supporters of ...