President Trump’s pardons and clemencies allowed recipients to get out of paying more than $1.3 billion in restitution and ...

Liz Oyer, a longtime Justice Department attorney handling pardons, said Trump's pardons "wiped out over $1 billion in debts ...

In a rare decision denying a U.S. extradition request, a B.C. Supreme Court judge declined to send a man accused of being ...

Ross Ulbricht, founder of Silk Road, received 300 BTC in June 2025, worth over $31 million. Blockchain analysis tied the donation to old AlphaBay darknet ...

"President Trump has granted pardons that have wiped out over $1 billion in debts owed by wealthy Americans who have committed fraud and broken the law," said Oyer, who said she was fired because she ...

Ulbricht did not immediately respond to a request for comment made through the Free Ross campaign that advocated for his pardon. AlphaBay, similar to Ulbricht’s Silk Road, was a ...

I saw the future of Bitcoin at crypto's biggest conference in Las Vegas. It's even weirder than you think.

The site, which was shut down in 2013 alongside Ulbricht's arrest, was a notorious marketplace for illegal drugs, among other products.

With Trump issuing pardons on a rolling basis, lobbyists say clients are willing to pay significant sums to get their cases ...

The 12-year campaign to free Ross Ulbricht — the criminal mastermind behind the Silk ... getting his first taste of a world he left behind in 2013 when a federal judge sentenced him to two counts of ...

In the first month of his second term, Trump also pardoned Ross Ulbricht, a former ... were actually carried out," federal prosecutors said in a statement after Ulbricht was sentenced in 2015.