President Donald Trump granted Ross Ulbricht a full and unconditional pardon on Tuesday. Ulbricht founded Silk Road, an online drug marketplace. In 2015, he was sentenced to life in prison without the ...

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 Donald Trump has granted a full ...

As Americans and the world grapple with how last week’s election will reshape the next four years and beyond, few have as much personally at stake from a new presidential administration as one 40-year ...

Donald J. Trump has pledged to commute Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht’s life sentence to time served if he’s re-elected president. “If you vote for me, on Day 1, I will commute the sentence of Ross ...

A former Penn State graduate student serving a life sentence for running a dark web marketplace is among the people that President Donald Trump pardoned.Ross Ulbricht was found guilty in 2015 of ...

Ross Ulbricht, formerly known online by the pseudonym "Dread Pirate Roberts" (a nod to the novel "The Princess Bride"), is known today as the founder of the Silk Road marketplace, a former site on the ...

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Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht is free after spending over a decade behind bars on drug and cybercrime charges — and he’s taking his little prison plant with him. After newly-minted president Donald ...

After Blake Benthall was arrested for running Silk Road 2.0, the infamous illegal drug bazaar, things didn’t go the way you might expect. Today, Blake Benthall runs a start-up that aims to help track ...