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THE founder of the dark web marketplace Silk Road has spoken of his gratitude after being pardoned by Donald Trump.
Ross Ulbricht had been holed up in a federal lockup in Arizona for almost a decade after being convicted in 2015.
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Ross Ulbricht has spoken of his gratitude after being pardoned by Trump[/caption]
Trump had promised to pardon Ulbricht in May and delivered on his word in the first week of his term in office.
Ulbricht released a video on X where he thanked Trump.
“Thank you so much, President Trump, for giving me this amazing blessing,” he said.
“I am so, so grateful to have my life back, to have my future back, to have this second chance.”
He said the pardon marked an “important” moment for his family.
“This is an important moment for everybody, everybody who loves freedom and cares about second chances.”
Ulbricht’s platform Silk Road allowed users to buy and sell illegal drugs anonymously.
He created the website in 2011 before it was shut down two years later.
Prosecutors in 2015 labeled him a “drug dealer and criminal profiteer.”
“Ulbricht went from hiding his cybercrime identity to becoming the face of cybercrime and as today’s sentence proves, no one is above the law,” Preet Bharara, the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, said.
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