Episode 2822
Ross Ulbricht
Thu, 2025-Jan-23 02:16 UTC
Length - 2:01
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With 1,203,355 views on Wednesday, 22 January 2025 our article of the day is Ross Ulbricht.
Ross William Ulbricht (born March 27, 1984) is an American who created and operated the darknet market website Silk Road from 2011 until his arrest in 2013. He was imprisoned from 2013 until January 2025, when he received a full pardon by U. S. President Donald Trump.
Silk Road operated as a hidden service on the Tor network and facilitated the sale of narcotics and other illegal products and services. Ulbricht ran the site under the pseudonym "Dread Pirate Roberts", after the fictional character from The Princess Bride.
In October 2013, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested Ulbricht and took Silk Road offline. In 2015, he was convicted of engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise, distributing narcotics by means of the internet, conspiracy to commit money laundering, conspiracy to traffic fraudulent identity documents, and conspiracy to commit computer hacking. He was sentenced to double life in prison plus 40 years without the possibility of parole. Ulbricht's appeals to the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in 2017 and the U. S. Supreme Court in 2018 were unsuccessful.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 02:16 UTC on Thursday, 23 January 2025.
For the full current version of the article, see Ross Ulbricht on Wikipedia.
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