On Tuesday, President Donald Trump carried through on another campaign promise, issuing a presidential pardon for Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the underground website Silk Road. But why did he do it?

President Trump announced Tuesday that he signed a full pardon for Ross Ulbricht, the Silk Road founder who was sentenced to ...

IN OCTOBER 2013, Ross Ulbricht was arrested by the FBI and charged with money laundering, conspiracy to commit computer hacking and conspiracy to traffic narcotics. Two years earlier, Ulbricht had ...

U.S. President Donald Trump pardoned Ross Ulbricht, the creator of dark web marketplace Silk Road. The claim about Trump pardoning Ulbricht, the creator of Silk Road, was true. Furthermore, Ulbricht ...

A Georgia man hid more than 50,000 stolen bitcoin on a disconnected single-board computer in a popcorn tin in his bedroom closet. reading time 4 minutes The largest amount of illicit funds ever ...

Nick Robinson, the wholesome, all-American-seeming star of “Love, Simon” and “Jurassic World,” plays an unlikely drug trafficker in “Silk Road.” The film tells the true story of Ross Ulbricht’s ...

Nov. 7 (UPI) --A Georgia man who stole 50,000 Bitcoin, now worth potentially billions of dollars, from the dark web market Silk Road in September 2012 has pleaded guilty to wire fraud, the Justice ...

Director Tiller Russell’s “Silk Road” — a dramatization of the rise and fall of dark-web drug lord Ross Ulbricht — opens with one hell of a caveat: “This story is true. Except for what we made up or ...

In January 2025, a claim (archived) circulated that U.S. President Donald Trump had pardoned Ross Ulbricht, who was imprisoned for operating the dark web marketplace Silk Road. "I just called the ...

President Trump fulfilled a campaign promise to Libertarian supporters on his second day back in office by pardoning the former creator and owner of an underground e-commerce website known for drug ...