“Trump pardons founder of drug-dealing site serving life sentence Donald Trump has announced a full pardon for Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the underground online site Silk Road. Ulbricht was serving a life sentence for organizing illegal drug trade worth more than $200 million.”, — write on: unn.ua
Details
It is noted that on Tuesday, January 21, US President Donald Trump announced a full and unconditional pardon for Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the underground online site Silk Road, who was serving a life sentence for organizing the illegal drug trade worth more than 200 million dollars
In this way, Trump fulfilled his campaign promise to release Ulbricht, 40, whose prison sentence began after his arrest in 2013, a landmark case for the US that began several years after the emergence of the popular cryptocurrency bitcoin.
The scumbags who worked to convict him were some of the same lunatics involved in the modern weaponization of the government against me
He added that the pardon was “full and unconditional” and said he had called Ulbricht’s mother to share the news.
Trump announced plans to pardon Ulbricht back in May 2024 during a speech at the Libertarian National Convention, which advocates drug legalization and has pushed for Ulbricht’s release, calling his case an example of government overreach.
The Trump administration is expected to change course significantly amid the tough regulation of the cryptocurrency sector that was carried out under Joe Biden.
During the trial, prosecutors alleged that Ulbricht, who goes by the alias Dread Pirate Roberts, took extreme measures to protect the site, including ordering the murders of several individuals who posed a threat. However, prosecutors conceded that there was no evidence that any murders had actually taken place.
Ulbricht admitted that he created Silk Road, but his lawyers argued that he later transferred the site to others and became a “scapegoat” for the real operators.
“I wanted to empower people to make choices in their lives, with privacy and anonymity,” Ulbricht said at his sentencing hearing in May 2015.
In February 2015, a federal jury in Manhattan found Ulbricht guilty on charges of internet drug distribution, computer hacking conspiracy and money laundering.
We will remind
Donald Trump, on the evening of Monday, January 20, after arriving at the White House for the first time as the 47th president of the United States and going to the Oval Office, was one of the first to sign a decree on pardoning hundreds of participants in the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021.