The President of the United States, Donald Trump, fulfilled another election campaign promise and granted this Tuesday (21) a presidential pardon for Ross Ulbricht, sentenced to life in prison in 2015 in New York. Ulbricht is the creator of drug sales website Silk Road and was convicted of money laundering and selling narcotics.
Ulbricht was arrested red-handed in 2013, in a New York library, after police found him with a notebook that had the Silk Road website administration panel open, as well as records of conversations about managing the website.
The estimate, according to North American prosecutors, is that Silk Road was used by more than 100,000 people and handled US$214 million in drug sales through the cryptocurrency bitcoin, according to Reuters.
Silk Road – ‘Silk Road’, in free translation – was closed in 2013 by the FBI after police arrested Ulbricht, according to the BBC.
Silk Road, however, has resurfaced as Silk Road 2.0, operated by a different team. The second version of the website was taken offline in November 2014, with the arrest of Blake Benthall, appointed as administrator of the second website, according to information from g1.
On a social network, Trump posted that he called Ulbricht’s mother to inform her that he had granted her son a pardon.
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“The scum who worked to convict him were some of the same lunatics who were involved in the modern government instrumentalization of me,” Trump said Tuesday.
