Ulbricht's defense, which entered a plea of not guilty to seven felony charges, claimed that he came up with the idea as "an economic experiment" beginning in 2009. Silk Road launched two years later.

President Donald Trump granted a full pardon on Tuesday to Ross Ulbricht, founder of Silk Road. The infamous dark web marketplace served as a global hub for illicit drug sales that prosecutors said ...

I confess I haven't read 107 Days, Kamala Harris' new memoir about her short-lived presidential campaign, cover to cover. But I did read at least one sentence, and it was a doozy. "The Justice ...

A San Francisco man was indicted on Tuesday on charges he was the mastermind behind a secret website that brokered more than $1 billion in transactions for illegal drugs and services. The indictment ...

President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he had pardoned Ross Ulbricht, the founder of Silk Road, an underground website for selling drugs. Ulbricht had been sentenced to life in prison in 2015 ...

Darknet marketplace Silk Road-linked cryptocurrency wallets are moving again, less than a year after US President Donald Trump granted its jailed founder, Ross Ulbricht, a full pardon. Silk ...

Bankman-Fried’s parents, former Stanford Law School professors Barbara Fried and Joseph Bankman, reportedly met with lawyers and others in Trump’s orbit attempting to secure a pardon. The lobbying ...

He was there to tell the jury that Ross Ulbricht had confessed everything to him about Silk Road, the black market that grew into a multimillion-dollar empire in just two years. Ulbricht is currently ...