Why Trump made a deal to free this drug war prisoner
A second chance for the creator of the dark web drug site the Silk Road might be coming…from an unlikely savior.
https://reason.com/video/2025/01/17/trump-promised-to-free-ross-ulbricht-heres-why-he-should/
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Ross Ulbricht was arrested at 29. Now, he's 40. He faces a double life sentence plus 40 years with no possibility of parole for creating the Silk Road, a dark web drug marketplace that facilitated $1.2 billion in bitcoin-denominated transactions.
"I'll spend the next few decades in this cage. Then, sometime later this century, I'll grow old and die. I'll finally leave prison, but I'll be in a body bag," he told an interviewer at a 2021 virtual blockchain conference.
https://reason.com/video/2025/01/17/trump-promised-to-free-ross-ulbricht-heres-why-he-should/
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Ross Ulbricht was arrested at 29. Now, he's 40. He faces a double life sentence plus 40 years with no possibility of parole for creating the Silk Road, a dark web drug marketplace that facilitated $1.2 billion in bitcoin-denominated transactions.
"I'll spend the next few decades in this cage. Then, sometime later this century, I'll grow old and die. I'll finally leave prison, but I'll be in a body bag," he told an interviewer at a 2021 virtual blockchain conference.
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