Trump Frees Silk Road Creator Ross Ulbricht After 11 Years in Prison

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January 22, 2025, 12:49 AM

• •Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the Silk Road dark web marketplace, has been pardoned by Donald Trump.
• •Ulbricht was arrested in 2013 and sentenced to life in prison in 2015.
• •His supporters have argued that he was a victim of oversentencing and that the Silk Road was a principled libertarian experiment in free trade.

Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the Silk Road dark web marketplace, has been pardoned by Donald Trump. Ulbricht was sentenced to life in prison in 2015 for drug trafficking and money laundering. His supporters argue that he was a victim of oversentencing, and that the Silk Road reduced violence in the drug trade.

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