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What to know about Ross Ulbricht the Silk Road creator pardoned by Trump
DONALD Trump’s first day back in office saw him sign an unconditional pardon for Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht. Silk Road was a dark web marketplace where illegal items could be anonymously…
DONALD Trump's first day back in office saw him sign an unconditional pardon for Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht.
Silk Road was a dark web marketplace where illegal items could be anonymously traded such as drugs, hacking equipment and stolen passports.
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Ross Ulbricht has been behind bars for 10 years while serving a life sentence that has now been pardonedCredit: Reuters8
Ulbricht was the mastermind behind the dark web marketplace Silk RoadCredit: Alamy8
Donald Trump signed a slew of pardons during his first full day back in officeCredit: ReutersUlbricht started creating the underground market in 2011 before being arrested in 2013 when the site was shut down.
According to court documents submitted by the FBI, when Ulbricht was arrested, the site had almost one million registered users, though it is not known how many were active at the time.
The drug kingpin who ran the site under the name Dread Pirate Roberts was found out after a tax agent discovered a post about Silk Road in an online forum.
The same user returned to the forum eight months later advertising a job posting and directing all applications to an account registered to Ulbricht who was then identified as a suspect.
read more on Trump's pardonsAfter seizing his laptop, the FBI discovered that "the Silk Road generated hundreds of millions of dollars in sales and more than $13 million dollars worth of Bitcoin in commissions."
"On November 3, 2020, law enforcement seized over $1 billion worth of digital currency from this case."
Ulbricht from Austin, Texas, was convicted in New York in 2015 after being found guilty of numerous charges including drug trafficking, computer hacking, and money laundering.
At the time, he said: "I wanted to empower people to make choices in their lives and have privacy and anonymity."
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The cyber criminal was handed a life sentence without the chance of parole a decision that has now been pardoned by the new president.
Trump's pardon comes after Ulbricht tried to appeal his sentence twice - once in the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in 2017 and then to the Supreme Court in 2018.
January 6 prisoners lost jobs and families - pardon won't erase scars of Biden's 'scorched earth' campaign, says laywerBoth attempts were unsuccessful.
But on January 21, 2025, Trump posted on Truth Social that he had unconditionally pardoned Ulbricht after calling his sentence "ridiculous."
The President wrote: "The scum that worked to convict him were some of the same lunatics who were involved in the modern day weaponization of government against me.
"He was given two life sentences, plus 40 years. Ridiculous!"
Trump called Ulbricht's mom to tell her the good news.
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The FBI seized Ulbricht's laptop after an online forum outed him to the FBI as a suspectCredit: Alamy8
At his sentencing in 2015, Ulbricht said he had wanted to 'empower people' with Silk RoadCredit: AP:Associated PressFormer District Judge Katherine Forrest who sentenced Ulbricht said at the time that Ulbricht's actions were "unprecedented."
"And in breaking that ground as the first person, you sit here as the defendant having to pay the consequences for that," she added.
The judge noted that the Silk Road had been his "carefully planned life's work" and that the "serious consequences" of his actions would deter like-minded individuals from similar endeavours.
Trump's decision has been celebrated by The libertarian party which has been fighting for Ulbricht's release calling his sentencing a case of government overreach.
The President said the move was made "in honor of [Ulbricht's mother] and the Libertarian Movement, which supported me so strongly."
Ulbricht's lawyer Joshua Dratal told The Guardian that he is "extremely gratified that an injustice has been corrected."
READ MORE SUN STORIESHe added that his client "can have a life ahead of him to be the productive person he could have been all these years."
Ulbricht is currently being held in a federal prison in Arizona and it is not yet clear when he will be released.
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Ulbricht's mother Lyn received a phone call from the President about her son's pardonCredit: AFP8
Ulbricht's underground site generated hundreds of millions of dollars in profitCredit: Reuters8
A slew of people have been calling for changes to Ulbricht's sentence seen by many as an overreach of governmentCredit: Getty
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