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President Trump is considering clemency for Ross Ulbricht, founder of the Silk Road dark web marketplace, before he leaves office.
Sources told the Daily Beast that the president was considering commuting Ulbricht s sentence and had been reviewing documents related to his case at the White House.
Ulbricht, 36, launched Silk Road in February 2011. The site, which the FBI shut down in October 2013, connected buyers and sellers on the dark web, usually for drug deals. It facilitated at least 1,229,465 transactions and generated 614,305 bitcoins in commissions. At the time of his arrest, that represented $183 million. At today s values, that amounts to $12.7 billion in cryptocurrency.
Trump reportedly considering clemency for Silk Road drug kingpin arrested at SF library
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Ross Ulbricht listens to proceedings from the defense table during his criminal trial in New York. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Wlliams)Elizabeth Williams/Associated Press
President Donald Trump is said to be weighing clemency for Ross Ulbricht, the convicted drug kingpin who ran the online darknet Silk Road drug market from his home in San Francisco.
The Daily Beast reported Tuesday that Trump has privately expressed sympathy for Ulbricht, and the White House counsel s office is reviewing documents related to his case. Any potential presidential pardon or sentence commutation would come before Trump leaves office on Jan. 20.