Donald Trump pardons Silk Highway creator Ross Ulbricht

President Donald Trump has pardoned Ross Ulbricht, the founding father of Silk Highway who was sentenced to after being of cash laundering, narcotics trafficking and laptop hacking. “I simply referred to as the mom of Ross William Ulbright [sic] to let her know that in honor of her and the Libertarian Motion, which supported me so strongly, it was my pleasure to have simply signed a full and unconditional pardon of her son, Ross,” Trump stated in on Fact Social.

Ulbricht has been serving a life sentence since 2015. Prosecutors that the darkish net market Ulbricht created was “utilized by hundreds of drug sellers and different illegal distributors to distribute lots of of kilograms of unlawful medicine and different illegal items and providers to nicely over 100 thousand patrons, and to launder lots of of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} deriving from these illegal transactions.” Ulbricht was additionally accused of trying to of his perceived enemies, although prosecutors stated there was “no proof that these murders had been truly carried out.”

The reprieve for Ulbricht comes after he tried, , to attraction his sentence in 2017. Crypto lovers, a lot of whom throughout the 2024 election, have lengthy argued that his sentence was too harsh. Trump stated that he would commute Ulbricht’s sentence “on day one” if he was reelected.