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 ...

Mr. Ulbricht’s pardon was not an obvious agenda item for Mr. Trump. Unlike the nearly 1,600 people who received pardons or commutations this week for their involvement in the Jan. 6 riot, Mr ...

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This story has been updated to include video. President Donald Trump has pardoned Austin native Ross William Ulbricht, the founder of the online drug marketplace Silk Road. Trump announced the ...

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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 ...

Presidential pardon means Ross Ulbricht will not have to serve the remainder of the double life sentence plus 40 years he was handed in 2015 - Lyn Ulbricht/Reuters ...

President Donald Trump said he granted a pardon Tuesday to Ross Ulbricht, founder of the online marketplace Silk Road — a campaign promise Trump had made to libertarian voters. In a post on his ...

On his second day back in office, President Donald Trump issued a full pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the founder of dark-web marketplace Silk Road.Trump had pledged to free Ulbricht as part of a raft ...