Trump announces pardon for Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, vacating life sentence

https://nypost.com/2025/01/21/us-news/trump-expected-to-pardon-silk-road-
founder-ross-ulbricht-vacating-life-sentence/

President Trump announced Tuesday night that he had granted a “full and 
unconditional” pardon to Ross Ulbricht, founder of the notorious dark web 
site Silk Road.

Trump, 78, announced his grant of clemency, first reported earlier Tuesday 
by The Post, on Truth Social.

“I just called the mother of Ross William Ulbright [sic] to let her know 
that in honor of her and the Libertarian Movement, which supported me so 
strongly, it was my pleasure to have just signed a full and unconditional 
pardon of her son, Ross,” he wrote. 

“The scum that worked to convict him were some of the same lunatics who 
were involved in the modern day weaponization of government against me. He 
was given two life sentences, plus 40 years. Ridiculous!”

A source close to the White House told The Post at midday Tuesday that 
executive action to turn Ulbricht loose was “incoming.”

Trump, 78, had vowed in May to reduce Ulbricht’s life sentence on charges 
of drug trafficking and money laundering “down to time served” if he won 
the 2024 election.

Ulbricht was arrested in October 2013 in San Francisco and accused of 
running the notorious website — which sold drugs and other illegal 
products while accepting bitcoin as payment — under the pseudonym “Dread 
Pirate Roberts.”

Now 40, Ulbricht was convicted in February 2015 on charges including drug 
trafficking and conspiracies to commit money laundering and computer 
hacking. He was sentenced that May to two life terms in prison, plus 40 
years.

Ulbricht had unsuccessfully appealed his conviction and sentence up to the 
Supreme Court, leaving him to serve out his time at a maximum security 
prison in Arizona.

On Tuesday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) sent a letter to Trump asking him to 
show mercy. 

“I write to urge you to follow through on your stated intention to commute 
the sentence of Ross Ulbricht. Mr. Ulbricht is serving two life sentences 
plus forty years without parole for nonviolent offenses related to the 
website he launched in early 2011,” Paul’s letter read. 


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