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Trump pardons Silk Road operator Ross Ulbricht
Ulbricht has been serving a life sentence.
By Sarah Jeong, features editor who publishes award-winning stories about law, tech, and internet subcultures. On Tuesday night, President Donald Trump issued a pardon to Ross Ulbricht, who ran the dark web marketplace Silk Road under the pseudonym “Dread Pirate Roberts.” Ulbricht has been serving a life sentence without parole since 2015, when he was convicted of multiple charges, including the distribution of narcotics. Although the criminal offenses were nonviolent in nature, the judge who sentenced Ulbricht took into account multiple deaths attributable to drugs bought through the Silk Road.
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