President Donald Trump issued a pardon to Ross Ulbricht, who ran the dark web marketplace Silk Road under the pseudonym “Dread Pirate Roberts.” Ulbricht has been serving a life sentence without parole ...

who operated Silk Road 2.0, was sentenced to time served and three years of probation. Ulbricht’s lieutenant, Thomas Clark, also known as “Variety Jones,” was sentenced to 20 years in prison ...

Silk Road employee Andrew Jones, who had established a 'secret handshake' with Ulbricht in 2012 to confirm his identity, did not believe that the late DPR was Ulbricht, either. According to court ...