President Donald Trump issued a pardon to Ross Ulbricht, who ran the dark web marketplace Silk Road under the pseudonym “Dread Pirate Roberts.” Ulbricht has been serving a life sentence without parole ...

On January 21, 2025, President Donald Trump granted a full and unconditional pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the infamous (and now defunct) dark web marketplace, Silk Road. Ulbricht had ...

It’s worth saying that Ulbricht is not the only Silk Road team member serving a severe sentence. Roger Thomas Clark, the Second-in-Command on Silk Road, was sentenced to 20 years behind bars in 2023.

Ulbricht’s second-in-command not pardoned Roger Thomas Clark, Ulbricht’s senior advisor and “second-in-command” at Silk Road, received a 20-year prison sentence. Clark, who went by the nicknames ...

Ross Ulbricht, sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for creating the darknet market Silk Road, is free. Ulbricht is a freedom fighter to some, and a dangerous criminal to ...

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Fresh off receiving a “full and unconditional pardon” from President Trump, sparing him from two life sentences, Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht was spotted in a new photograph smiling broadly ...

President Donald Trump pardoned the founder of darknet marketplace Silk Road, he said in a post to Truth Social on Tuesday night. Ross William Ulbricht, known online as Dread Pirate Roberts ...

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 ...

And if someone creates an online marketplace where drug sales can be done more safely than on the street — which is precisely what Silk Road provided — then that should be none of the ...