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

On 21 Jan 2025, "Leroy N. Soetoro"
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> https://nypost.com/2025/01/21/us-news/trump-expected-to-pardon-silk-roa
> d- 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.

Trump already doing good things.