The Silk Road, one of the first and most notorious dark web markets, soon spiralled into a criminal empire worth millions, ...

Ross Ulbricht ran Silk Road, an online black market that moved $200 million worth of illegal drugs, distributed fake passports, helped hackers collaborate, and laundered money. He was also prosecuted ...

Donald Trump has offered a flurry of pardons since taking office earlier this week, including one for the Silk Road creator ...

Ross Ulbricht was serving a life sentence for creating ... In 2017, the federal appeals court for the Second Circuit, in affirming Mr. Ulbricht’s conviction, acknowledged the severe nature ...

Ulbricht had been serving two life sentences, plus 40 years, in a high-security prison in Colorado after failed appeals. For years, libertarians and cryptocurrency enthusiasts had championed his ...

Former President Donald Trump has granted a full pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the infamous Silk Road dark web marketplace.

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

Elon Musk, Tesla and SpaceX CEO, has said that early Bitcoin investor Roger Ver shouldn’t get a presidential pardon from ...

Ross Ulbricht was arrested in October 2013 at a ... Many viewed this promise as an appeal to the Libertarian-leaning segment of his voter base, which has long criticized government overreach ...

Since his conviction, Ulbricht has repeatedly tried to appeal for clemency ... Despite ignoring pleas for Ross Ulbricht’s freedom during his first term in office, Donald Trump made promises ...