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American founder and administrator of the illicit online marketplace the Silk Road
Donald Trump has used his clemency power to pardon or commute multiple people tied to large-scale drug trafficking, drug marketplaces and related criminal enterprises — most prominently Ross Ulbricht ...
Since returning to the White House, President Donald J. Trump has used his clemency power to forgive a wide swath of individuals convicted of federal crimes, including numerous people convicted of fra...
Donald Trump has pardoned or promised clemency to multiple people convicted of federal drug offenses across his presidencies, most prominently Ross Ulbricht (Silk Road) in January 2025 and — in late N...
Donald Trump has issued clemency to multiple high‑profile figures convicted of drug offenses across his two presidencies, including a recent full pardon of former Honduran president Juan Orlando Herná...
Donald J. Trump’s second-term clemency record includes at least one mass pardon on Jan. 20, 2025 that covered “nearly 1,600” people tied to the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol breach, and by November 2025 report...
President Trump has issued clemency to a large and growing number of federal offenders across two nonconsecutive presidencies: 237 acts of clemency (143 pardons, 94 commutations) during his first term...
Ross Ulbricht — founder of the Silk Road dark‑web marketplace — was pardoned by President Trump on Jan. 21, 2025 after serving more than a decade; prosecutors had tied Silk Road to more than $200 mill...
There is no single, verifiable total of "convicted drug offenders" pardoned by President Trump in the provided reporting; major outlets and official pages document prominent drug-related clemencies bu...
Ross Ulbricht was convicted in 2015 on charges tied to operating the dark‑web marketplace Silk Road — including narcotics distribution, money laundering and related offenses — and served a life senten...
A set of high-profile clemency actions wiped away court-ordered financial obligations for multiple pardoned defendants and at least one corporation; reporting and tracking by former DOJ pardon attorne...
Presidential clemency records show Republican Donald Trump has issued more high-profile pardons or commutations of people convicted in major narcotics cases than recent presidents, including at least ...
President Trump has pardoned several people whose federal convictions involved narcotics trafficking or distribution; among those documented in the reporting provided are former Honduran president Jua...
President Trump issued large-scale pardons in 2025 — including blanket clemency for roughly 1,500–1,600 January 6 defendants on January 20, 2025 — and has publicly acknowledged at least one pardon whe...
President Donald J. Trump’s clemency actions are reported with widely different totals: an official Office of the Pardon Attorney listing shows in a narrow 2025 window, while multiple news and oversig...
President Trump has issued thousands of clemency actions this year, including a blanket pardon for roughly 1,500 people charged in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, mass pardons for “alternate electors” and ...
President Trump issued a “full and unconditional” pardon for Ross Ulbricht — the founder of the Silk Road dark‑web marketplace who had been serving life sentences — and Ulbricht was released from fede...
Dark‑web carding marketplaces are repeatedly compromised not by breaking Tor but by technical signals and human OpSec failures such as identity reuse, leaked crypto flows, metadata, and marketplace mi...
Available reporting shows that President Trump has issued pardons after 2020 to people convicted of serious drug-related offenses — most prominently Ross Ulbricht (Silk Road) and former Honduran presi...
Ross Ulbricht was tried and convicted in 2015 on arising from his operation of the Silk Road darknet marketplace; those counts charged narcotics distribution (including internet-based distribution), c...
President Donald J. Trump has issued clemency actions that include individual pardons and broad packages of pardons and commutations covering hundreds to thousands of people, notably participants in t...