The California mother of two was in bed after dropping her 16-year-old son, Alejandro, off at a friend’s house for a sleepover. When Núñez Ávila answered the phone early that September morning in 2012 ...

In a historic decision made by the President, Donald Trump has granted a full and unconditional pardon to Ross Ulbricht, founder of the infamous Silk Road dark web marketplace, raising debates over ...

Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the Silk Road dark web marketplace, is now seeking a presidential pardon from Donald Trump.

“Last night, Donald Trump granted me a full pardon,” Ulbricht said in a video ... known by the pseudonym “Dread Pirate Roberts,” founded Silk Road in 2011. Its services were available ...

Journalist and author Nick Bilton explains the rise and fall of Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the Silk Road marketplace.

Donald Trump took a victory lap over the weekend celebrating his January pardon of Ross Ulbricht, founder of the Silk Road dark web drug marketplace, who had been serving a double life sentence in ...

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 ...

Silk Road, whose founder Ross Ulbricht was recently pardoned by Trump, was the Wild West of early online harm reduction.

Brian Anderson knee-caps politicians for work. He also helped nab a Trump pardon for accused drug trafficker Ross Ulbricht.

On his first day as a free man, Silk ... pardon that freed him from life in prison. Mr. Ulbricht, 40, had been serving a double life sentence with 40 years thrown on top of the sentence after he was ...

Last week, Ulbricht weighed in about the pardon, sharing a photo ... set up the Silk Road online marketplace on the non-public “dark web” in 2011, where customers could use cryptocurrencies ...