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.
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.”
In the video, Ulbricht said the feeling of being free was “overwhelming.”
And, he said he was looking forward to re-engaging with the free world.
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.
Ulbricht, who operated under the name Dread Pirate Roberts, is said to have raked in more than $13 million in commission from the illegal sales.
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.
In November 2020, officials claimed they had seized more than $1billion worth of digital currency.
Trump issued the unconditional pardon and slammed the prosecutors.
“The scum that worked to convict him were some of the same lunatics who were involved in the modern day weaponization of government against me,” he said in a Truth Social post.
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