Ross Ulbricht
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Ross Ulbricht was the administrator of the Silk Road, an anonymous online store notable for using Bitcoin as currency.
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- 2015-05-29: Ulbricht sentenced to life without parole for running the Silk Road.[1]
- 2025-01-21: President Donald Trump pardoned Ross Ulbricht.[2]
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- ↑ Benjamin Weiser. (2015-05-29). “Ross Ulbricht, Creator of Silk Road Website, Is Sentenced to Life in Prison”. nytimes.com. Accessed 2025-01-21. “Ross W. Ulbricht, the founder of Silk Road, a notorious online marketplace for the sale of heroin, cocaine, LSD and other illegal drugs, was sentenced to life in prison on Friday in Federal District Court in Manhattan. ¶ Mr. Ulbricht, 31, was sentenced by the judge, Katherine B. Forrest, for his role as what prosecutors described as “the kingpin of a worldwide digital drug-trafficking enterprise.” ¶ Mr. Ulbricht had faced a minimum of 20 years in prison on one of the counts for which he was convicted. But in handing down a much longer sentence, Judge Forrest told Mr. Ulbricht that “what you did in connection with Silk Road was terribly destructive to our social fabric.” ”.
- ↑ David Yaffe-Bellany; Ryan Mac. (2025-01-21). “Trump Pardons Creator of Silk Road Drug Marketplace”. nytimes.com. Accessed 2025-01-21. “President Trump on Tuesday granted a pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the Silk Road drug marketplace and a cult hero in the cryptocurrency and libertarian worlds. … A Bitcoin pioneer, Mr. Ulbricht, 40, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in 2015, after he was convicted on charges that included distributing narcotics on the internet.”.
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