The president granted the unconditional release of the online drug impresario as a favor to libertarians and cryptocurrency ...

President Donald Trump has done it again. With his unconditional pardon of Ross Ulbricht, the founder of Silk Road, he ...

Ross Ulbricht, founder of Silk Road, a first of its kind in the modern era, thanked President Donald Trump for setting him ...

Ross Ulbricht’s first hopes for clemency died when a mob of Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol. Trump had ...

Donald Trump has offered a flurry of pardons since taking office earlier this week, including one for the Silk Road creator ...

Looking exhausted and relieved, the Silk Road founder said his release feels "amazing"—and that he now plans to spend time ...

A letter sent to a Congressional Representative by Ross Ulbricht about his impending release from prison moved the Representative to tears.

In January 2025, a claim (archived) circulated that U.S. President Donald Trump had pardoned Ross Ulbricht, who was imprisoned for operating the dark web marketplace Silk Road. "I just called the ...

Ross Ulbricht, the dark-web marketplace founder ... Trump on Tuesday issued Ulbricht a full and unconditional pardon, fulfilling a campaign promise to libertarians and cryptocurrency enthusiasts ...

Ulbricht, 40, had been serving a life sentence on federal drug trafficking charges for setting up the illegal website.

According to Renato Mariotti, a former federal prosecutor who now works in white collar defense at Paul Hastings, a pardon undoes the forfeiture or property—unless, as is the case with Ulbricht's ...

Image Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the website Silk ... and requested that Mr. Trump grant Mr. Ulbricht a full pardon, not just a commutation. “Promises made, promises kept,” a Trump staffer ...