the founder of Silk Road, an underground website for selling drugs. Ulbricht had been sentenced to life in prison in 2015 after a high-profile prosecution that highlighted the role of the internet in ...

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This story has been updated to include video. President Donald Trump has pardoned Austin native Ross William Ulbricht, the founder of the online drug marketplace Silk Road. Trump announced the ...

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In 2011, Ulbricht—who used the moniker “Dread Pirate Roberts”—founded Silk Road, an anonymous e-commerce site on the Tor network that allowed users to conceal their computer’s IP address ...

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President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he had granted a pardon to Ross William Ulbricht, the founder of the Silk Road dark web marketplace. Ulbricht, who was accused of creating the shadowy ...

Donald Trump has granted a full pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the founder of online drug marketplace Silk Road who became a hero for America’s libertarian movement. The US president allowed Mr ...

Presidential pardon means Ross Ulbricht will not have to serve the remainder of the double life sentence plus 40 years he was handed in 2015 - Lyn Ulbricht/Reuters ...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday pardoned Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, who was sentenced to life in prison for running an underground online marketplace where drug dealers and others ...

The creator of a dark web market that sold illegal drugs, stolen passports and hacking equipment using Bitcoin has been pardoned by President Donald Trump. Ross Ulbricht was sentenced to life in ...