Donald Trump took a victory lap over the weekend celebrating his January pardon of Ross Ulbricht, founder of the Silk Road ...

In 2015, a federal judge in Manhattan sentenced Ulbricht to life in prison for drug trafficking, computer hacking and money ...

Silk Road was a notorious dark web marketplace selling illegal drugs, hacking tools and stolen passports during its operation between 2011 and 2013. Ulbricht, who has been in prison since 2015 ...

An earlier version of this article said that Ulbricht was not charged for soliciting murder. He was charged in a separate indictment in Maryland but prosecutors later dropped the charges.

On 20 January 2025, former President Donald Trump surprised everyone by giving a full presidential pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the man behind Silk Road, a global digital platform on the ‘Dark Web ...

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 ...

What Was the Silk Road? The Silk Road was an online marketplace launched in 2011 by Ross Ulbricht, operating under the pseudonym "Dread Pirate Roberts." It was hosted on the dark web, a part of ...

Ross Ulbricht, also known as "Dread Pirate Roberts," operated the anonymous digital marketplace known as Silk Road between ...

U.S. President Donald Trump pardoned Ross Ulbricht, the creator of dark web marketplace Silk Road. Rating: In January 2025, a claim (archived) circulated that U.S. President Donald Trump had pardoned ...

President Donald Trump on Tuesday evening said he issued a full and unconditional pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the ...