With Trump issuing pardons on a rolling basis, lobbyists say clients are willing to pay significant sums to get their cases in front of the president.

Trump had previously been a harsh critic of cryptocurrency, saying in 2021 that it “seems like a scam,” but he flipped in the ...

After being in prison for more than 11 years for his involvement with the darknet marketplace Silk Road, Ross Ulbricht appears to have wasted no time making public appearances. In a March 4 X post ...

But even among the deluge, one pardon stood out: Trump granted clemency to Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the dark web drug marketplace Silk Road. In so doing, Trump fulfilled a campaign promise he ...

Ross Ulbricht, founder of the anonymous online marketplace Silk Road, thanked President Donald Trump for giving him a full and unconditional pardon. In a video posted online, a visibly emotional ...

Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the now-defunct darknet drug market previously known as Silk Road, thanked President ... his part in developing an online marketplace that connected people selling ...

Trump, 78, indicated that aside from the stiff sentence handed down to Ulbricht, who went by “Dread Pirate Roberts” on the Silk Road marketplace he allegedly ran, he pardoned him to “honor ...

President Donald Trump pardoned the founder of darknet marketplace Silk Road, he said in a post to Truth Social on Tuesday night. Ross William Ulbricht, known online as Dread Pirate Roberts ...

She had an answer: Free Ross Ulbricht, a Bitcoin pioneer who was sentenced to life in prison in 2015 for creating Silk Road, the world’s largest online drug marketplace. Mr. Ulbricht was ...

In January 2025, a claim (archived) circulated that U.S. President Donald Trump had pardoned Ross Ulbricht, who was imprisoned for operating the dark web marketplace Silk Road. "I just called the ...

Donald Trump has used his presidential powers to pardon convicted felon Ross Ulbricht, the founder of notorious dark web marketplace Silk Road. Ulbricht was sentenced to life in prison in 2015, on ...

it emerged as what prosecutors described as the most sophisticated and extensive criminal marketplace on the internet.The vast majority of items for sale on Silk Road were controlled substances ...