US President Donald Trump on Tuesday pardoned Ross Ulbricht, who was serving a life sentence for operating an online black market, which facilitated over $200 million in illegal sales using Bitcoin.

Delivering on the pledge he made to the Libertarian Party at its convention last summer, President Donald Trump on Tuesday pardoned Ross Ulbricht, a former Eagle Scout and computer whiz who in ...

He went on, “I think it was a shrewd move to pardon Ross sort of all on his own, after Trump did the mass pardons. It kind of gives the gesture more gravitas.” In 2011, Ulbricht, an Eagle ...

Ross Ulbricht ... have become more prevalent. Ulbricht was sentenced to life without parole. Ulbricht's laptop, from which he did much of the site's maintenance and creation, is held as ...

Ross Ulbricht ... have become more prevalent. Ulbricht was sentenced to life without parole. Ulbricht's laptop, from which he did much of the site's maintenance and creation, is held as an ...

Ross was thrown in prison for longer than most rapists and murderers, which was extraordinary given this was just a digital marketplace.” He emphasized the troubling nature of Ulbricht's ...

Ross Ulbricht, 40, was arrested in 2013 and jailed in 2015 after a jury found his site facilitated the sale of illicit drugs using cryptocurrency. He was serving two life terms plus 40 years for ...

Trump was jeered throughout his speech, but he was also widely cheered at one point: when he promised to free the libertarian Ron Paul supporter Ross Ulbricht, the founder of Silk Road who had ...

Ross Ulbricht, the dark-web marketplace founder pardoned by United States President Donald Trump, has spoken about his release from prison for the first time. Ulbricht, 40, was sentenced to two ...