Donald Trump pardoned the creator of the world’s first dark-web drug market, who is now a libertarian cause célèbre in some parts of the crypto community.

Donald Trump has used his presidential powers to pardon convicted felon Ross Ulbricht, the founder of notorious dark web marketplace Silk Road.

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

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

US President Donald Trump says he has signed a full and unconditional pardon for Ross Ulbricht, who operated Silk Road, the dark web marketplace where illegal drugs were sold. Ulbricht was convicted in 2015 in New York in a narcotics and money-laundering conspiracy and sentenced to life in prison.

Ulbricht was given two life sentences, plus 40 years for running a site that allegedly facilitated $183m in drug sales.

President Trump pardoned Ross William Ulbricht, the creator of the Silk Road dark web marketplace, criticizing his sentence as excessive. Ulbricht had

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 marketplace used to deal drugs.

United States President Donald Trump has decided to pardon Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the dark-web black market Silk Road, who was convicted in 2015.

Ross Ulbricht was serving a life sentence for creating a site in a shady corner of the internet to sell heroin, cocaine and other illicit substances.

President Trump made good on a campaign promise made to libertarians to pardon Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, who received two life sentences in 2015 for creating and operating the infamous dark web marketplace that traded drugs,