The president granted the unconditional release of the online drug impresario as a favor to libertarians and cryptocurrency ...

President Donald Trump has done it again. With his unconditional pardon of Ross Ulbricht, the founder of Silk Road, he ...

Ross Ulbricht, founder of Silk Road, a first of its kind in the modern era, thanked President Donald Trump for setting him ...

Donald Trump has offered a flurry of pardons since taking office earlier this week, including one for the Silk Road creator ...

Ulbricht was sentenced to life in prison in 2015 on charges related to his website, where users could buy and sell drugs and ...

Ross Ulbricht’s first hopes for clemency died when a mob of Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol. Trump had ...

The pardon is a big deal for cryptocurrency enthusiasts and libertarians, who have been pushing for Ulbricht’s sentence to be absolved for years.

Looking exhausted and relieved, the Silk Road founder said his release feels "amazing"—and that he now plans to spend time ...

A letter sent to a Congressional Representative by Ross Ulbricht about his impending release from prison moved the Representative to tears.

Image Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the website Silk ... and requested that Mr. Trump grant Mr. Ulbricht a full pardon, not just a commutation. “Promises made, promises kept,” a Trump staffer ...

According to Renato Mariotti, a former federal prosecutor who now works in white collar defense at Paul Hastings, a pardon undoes the forfeiture or property—unless, as is the case with Ulbricht's ...

Ulbricht, 40, had been serving a life sentence on federal drug trafficking charges for setting up the illegal website.