It was just after midnight when a phone call from an unknown number woke Dorine Núñez Ávila.

In 2015, a federal judge in Manhattan sentenced Ulbricht to life in prison for drug trafficking, computer hacking and money laundering.

President Trump has just offered millions of people working in various White House departments a resignation deal

Emboldened by what he considers a sweeping mandate, Donald Trump has hit the ground running in his first couple days in office as the world looks on horrified for the future. On Monday, he issued 46 presidential actions made up of four staff announcements,

The president granted the unconditional release of the online drug impresario as a favor to libertarians and cryptocurrency partisans.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday evening said he issued a full and unconditional pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the dark web Silk Road marketplace for illicit drugs.

Until, of course, in 2013 the Silk Road was shut down by FBI agents and Mr Ulbricht, then 29 years old, was arrested in the science-fiction section of a San Francisco public library. In 2015, after a four-week trial,

In a move that has sparked debate, President Donald Trump granted a full pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the Silk Road dark web marketplace, who had been serving two life sentences plus 40 years for enabling the illegal trade of drugs and other illicit goods. People using his site traded in bitcoin to avoid detection.

President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he had granted a pardon to Ross William Ulbricht, the founder of the Silk Road dark web marketplace.

Ulbricht was given two life sentences, plus 40 years for running a site that allegedly facilitated $183m in drug sales.

US President Donald Trump says he has signed a full and unconditional pardon for Ross Ulbricht, who operated Silk Road, the dark web marketplace where illegal drugs were sold. Ulbricht was convicted in 2015 in New York in a narcotics and money-laundering conspiracy and sentenced to life in prison.

Donald Trump has made good on his promise to pardon Ross Ulbricht, the founder of Silk Road, an underground website for selling drugs.