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

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.

President Donald Trump announced Tuesday on Truth Social that he had pardoned Texas native and Silk Road website founder Ross Ulbricht.

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 ...

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 ...

“Ross Ulbricht’s Silk Road scheme removed all ... He operated the website on the dark web under the alias “Dread Pirate Roberts” — a reference to a character in the 1987 movie “The ...

The creator of dark web drug selling site Silk Road has profusely thanked Donald Trump for pardoning him. Ross Ulbricht, 40, was arrested in 2013 and jailed in 2015 after a jury found his site ...

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