Trump Pardons Ross Ulbricht, Creator of Silk Road Drug Marketplace

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baltakatei@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Background:

Benjamin Weiser. (2015-05-29). “Ross Ulbricht, Creator of Silk Road Website, Is Sentenced to Life in Prison”. New York Times. Accessed 2025-01-21.

Ross W. Ulbricht, the founder of Silk Road, a notorious online marketplace for the sale of heroin, cocaine, LSD and other illegal drugs, was sentenced to life in prison on Friday in Federal District Court in Manhattan.

Mr. Ulbricht, 31, was sentenced by the judge, Katherine B. Forrest, for his role as what prosecutors described as “the kingpin of a worldwide digital drug-trafficking enterprise.”

Mr. Ulbricht had faced a minimum of 20 years in prison on one of the counts for which he was convicted. But in handing down a much longer sentence, Judge Forrest told Mr. Ulbricht that “what you did in connection with Silk Road was terribly destructive to our social fabric.”

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thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
That makes me laugh. The story on how they caught him is pretty amazing.

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- Glasgow@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Silk Road and the subsequent markets actually did reduce violent drug crime.
  
  Have you ever seen Pineapple Express? You’re not gonna do that with the postie
  
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