Donald Trump could grant clemency to Ross Ulbricht before closing his presidential term. Ross Ulbricht by activists and political figures who support his release.
Donald Trump could grant a presidential pardon to Ross Ulbricht for the Silk Road case, freeing him from the sentence of two life sentences that weigh on the creator of the website.
According to sources, the documentation of the Silk Road case and the request for the presidential pardon of Ulbricht are under review by the White House.
One of the sources in the consult indicated that Trump has repeatedly expressed his sympathy with the cause for the release of Ulbricht. Thus, it is speculated that Trump could grant clemency before his presidential term ends on January 20, 2021.
Although the decision is still on hold, Trump’s circle of advisers could have swayed in Ulbricht’s favor throughout this time. According to TDB, one of the voices defending Ulbricht is that of Alice Johnson, a former federal prisoner that saw her release in 2018 and is an activist for judicial reform, who has close ties to the Trump administration.
Unrelated to The Daily Beast report, Andrew Surabia, a political strategist for the Republican party and a close adviser to Trump, posted words of support for Ulbricht on Twitter.
Ross was harmed with a madly disproportionate sentence. He received two life sentences with no chance of parole, to be his first offense in a non-violent crime? Few people deserve the forgiveness of Donald Trump, in my opinion, “he said.
Ulbricht’s relatives trust that Trump will grant forgiveness to the creator of Silk Road, who is serving a life sentence for the crimes he is charged with.
“We are praying and very hopeful that Trump will show compassion to Ross and consider him the time my son has served and give him a second chance at his life,” Lyn Ulbricht told The Daily Beast.
Ross Ulbricht, bitcoin and the Silk Road case
Ulbricht was sentenced to life in prison for being the creator and administrator of Silk Road, a narcotics market that pioneered the use of bitcoin as a payment method.
After a lengthy investigation, involving a variety of US state security departments, Ulbricht was captured and identified under the pseudonym “Dread Pirate Roberts.” Subsequently, he was sentenced to two life sentences without parole for computer fraud, money laundering, and drug and narcotics trafficking by a jury in Manhattan, New York.
Another of the crimes attributed to Ulbricht was an alleged conspiracy to commit murder, targeting alleged attackers who stole Ulbricht’s personal information and blackmailed him into exposing him publicly. However, the charges were dismissed in favor of Ulbricht, although they did not induce the conviction that already weighed on him.
Last November, the United States Department of the Treasury confiscated 69,370 BTC from an attacker who managed to extract them from Silk Road in 2013, managing to take control over one of the largest bitcoin wallets today.
By: Jenson Nuñez.
