President Donald Trump on Tuesday evening said he issued a full and unconditional pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the ...

In 2015, a federal judge in Manhattan sentenced Ulbricht to life in prison for drug trafficking, computer hacking and money ...

President Trump announced that he signed a full pardon for Ross Ulbricht, the Silk Road founder who was sentenced to life in ...

Ulbricht operated the anonymous digital marketplace known as Silk Road when law enforcement arrested him. The pardon fulfills ...

US President Donald Trump says he has signed a full and unconditional pardon for Ross Ulbricht, who operated Silk Road, the dark web marketplace where illegal drugs were sold. Ulbricht was convicted ...

Silk Road was a notorious dark web marketplace selling illegal drugs, hacking tools and stolen passports during its operation between 2011 and 2013. Ulbricht, who has been in prison since 2015 ...

NEWLY-INAUGURATED US President Donald Trump has given the founder of dark web marketplace Silk Road a full and unconditional pardon. The decision has saved Ross Ulbricht from serving two life ...

During Silk Road's early days, Ulbricht was living in Sydney, Australia, spending around six months in a Bondi Beach house share where he began secretly building his dark web empire. A friend from ...

An earlier version of this article said that Ulbricht was not charged for soliciting murder. He was charged in a separate indictment in Maryland but prosecutors later dropped the charges.

United States President Donald Trump has decided to pardon Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the dark-web black market Silk Road, who was convicted in 2015.

But the Silk Road, one of the first and most notorious dark web markets, soon spiralled into a criminal empire worth millions, transforming its founder Ross Ulbricht into a ruthless cybercriminal ...