In addition to many other things he has promised to do on his first day in office, Donald Trump has said he will free Silk ...

Ross Ulbricht, behind bars for 11 years, had been serving a double life sentence for his role in the dark web marketplace ...

Fulfilling a campaign promise to libertarians and the bitcoin community, the Silk Road founder's life sentence without parole ...

During his 2015 sentencing, district judge Katherine Forrest described Ulbricht as "no better a person than any other drug ...

Donald Trump pardons founder of Silk Road dark web drug marketplace - US president has granted a full pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the Silk Road dark web marketplace ...

Sentencing Ulbricht - who has two college degrees - District Judge Katherine Forrest said he was "no better a person than any other drug dealer". She said the site had been his "carefully planned life ...

Cravath Swaine & Moore has lured Andrew Finch, a partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison who was co-chair of its antitrust practice group.

Now-former US District Judge Katherine Forrest challenged that, noting at sentencing that Ulbricht had to "pay the consequences" because Silk Road's novel use of cryptocurrency to cover up ...

"What you did was unprecedented," now-former U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest said in sentencing Ulbricht. "And in breaking that ground as the first person, you sit here as the defendant ...

Ulbricht launched 'Silk Road', a darknet marketplace he envisioned as a freewheeling, anonymous platform for trade, powered by cryptocurrency ...