United States President Donald Trump has decided to pardon Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the dark-web black market Silk Road, ...

President Trump announced Tuesday that he signed a full pardon for Ross Ulbricht, the Silk Road founder who was sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of running the dark web ...

NEWLY-INAUGURATED US President Donald Trump has given the founder of dark web marketplace Silk Road a full and unconditional pardon. The decision has saved Ross Ulbricht from serving two life ...

Originally a niche medium of exchange for the technology community, Bitcoin emerged in 2011 as the currency of choice for drug dealers conducting transactions on a dark-web site known as the Silk Road ...

Ross Ulbricht, also known as "Dread Pirate Roberts," operated the anonymous digital marketplace known as Silk Road between 2011 and 2013, when law enforcement shut the site down and arrested him ...

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 ...

Jan. 22 (UPI) --President Donald Trump on Tuesday evening said he issued a full and unconditional pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the dark web Silk Road marketplace of illicit drugs.

President Donald Trump has signed a “full and unconditional” pardon for Ross Ulbricht The Silk Road operator had received two life sentences and a further 40 years Trump said the same ...

An earlier version of this article said that Ulbricht was not charged for soliciting murder. He was charged in a separate indictment in Maryland but prosecutors later dropped the charges.