Ulbricht acknowledged he created Silk Road, but his lawyers contended he had later handed off the website to others and was lured back toward its end to become the "fall guy" for its true operators.

Ross Ulbricht was sentenced to life in prison in 2015 for drug trafficking, computer hacking and money laundering ...

Donald Trump took a victory lap over the weekend celebrating his January pardon of Ross Ulbricht, founder of the “Silk Road” dark web drug marketplace, who had been serving a double life ...

Prosecutors said Ulbricht ran Silk Road under the alias Dread Pirate Roberts ... and was lured back toward its end to become the "fall guy" for its true operators. "I wanted to empower people ...