The president of the has signed a full and unconditional amnesty for Ross Ulbricht, the operator of Silk Road, a dark web platform where he illegally sold “The scum who worked to convict him were some of the same lunatics who participated in the modern weaponization of the government against me Trump said in a post online Tuesday night. “He was given two terms of life plus 40 years. Ridiculous!”
Ulbricht was convicted in 2015 of conspiracy to sell drugs and money laundering, and was sentenced to life in prison.
Silk Road, which was shut down in 2013 after Ulbricht was arrested by police, sold illegal drugs using Bitcoin, as well as hacking equipment and stolen passports. During his trial, prosecutors said Ulbricht’s website, hosted on the “dark web,” sold more than $200 million worth of drugs anonymously. dollars (131 million pounds).
The site gained notoriety through media reports and online discussion. Users could only access the site through Tor – a system that allows people to use the web without revealing who they are or what country they are in.
In fact, FBI court documents said the site had just under a million registered users, but investigators said they didn’t actually know how many were active.
BREAKING: Here’s the first image of Ross Ulbricht leaving prison as a free man 🧡
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The defendant when asked about it stated that: The website was his “carefully planned life’s work”. “I wanted to give people the ability to make choices in their lives and have privacy and anonymity,” he said at his sentencing in May 2015.
The Liberal Party had argued for Ulbricht’s release and said his case was an example of government overreach. Republican Rep. Thomas Massie, a Trump ally, applauded the president’s decision.
