President Donald Trump pardoned three high-profile crypto figures between January and October 2025, triggering allegations ...

Ilya Lichtenstein, who had pleaded guilty to attempting to launder 120,000 bitcoin stolen from the Bitfinex crypto exchange ...

Lichtenstein was sentenced to 60 months in federal prison for his involvement in a money-laundering conspiracy stemming from ...

Donald Trump used his pardon power to reshape the federal approach to crypto enforcement in 2025, clearing several of the ...

President Donald Trump granted a full pardon on Tuesday to Ross Ulbricht, founder of Silk Road. The infamous dark web marketplace served as a global hub for illicit drug sales that prosecutors said ...

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 in prison in 2015 ...

Ilya Lichtenstein, who was sentenced to five years in prison in 2024 for hacking crypto exchange Bitfinex, was released early thanks to Trump’s First Step Act.

Ilya Lichtenstein, the Russian-American hacker who stole nearly 120,000 bitcoin from crypto exchange Bitfinex, has been ...