Libertarian Presidential Candidate Would Consider Ross Ulbricht Pardon
Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson has said that he would consider granting pardons to several high-profile convicts of hacking and computer-related crimes such as Ross Ulbricht, Edward Snowden, and Chelsea Manning. In 2015, Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht was convicted of drug, conspiracy, and hacking charges, which gained significant popularity as the first darknet for individuals to buy and sell illegal items over the internet such as drugs and weapons anonymously. In 2013, the U.S. charged Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency analyst, with violating the....
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US presidential candidate Gary Johnson indicated that he might pardon several key whistleblowers and crypto-anarchists. Johnson, the nominee for the Libertarian Party, said he would consider pardoning Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, and would “look seriously at” pardoning NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and Wikileaks collaborator Chelsea Manning. While Johnson is a third-party candidate, who traditionally do not perform well in national elections, this year the situation is very different. He is polling ever closer to 15% which nationally is the requirement to be included in the national....
Anonymous sources claim that President Trump is sympathetic to the Free Ross campaign and is considering clemency for the Silk Road founder. According to The Daily Beast, outgoing U.S. president Donald Trump is considering granting clemency to Ross Ulbricht — the founder and operator of the pioneering darknet market, Silk Road.Ulbricht was arrested in 2013 and received two life sentences without parole for non-violent offenses in 2015.The anonymous sources relied on in the report claim that the White House counsel’s office has been reviewing documents related to Ulbricht’s case, and that....
Lyn Ulbricht, the mother of Ross Ulbricht, the man convicted of running the online dark web marketplace Silk Road, has suffered a heart attack according to the Free Ross official Twitter account. Mrs Ulbricht has expressed shock and worry over the arrest of her child, Ross. She has been a tireless campaigner in her son's case. Lyn suffered a heart attack. She is in hospital and she will be ok. She continues to make improvements every day, watch for recovery updates. - Free_Ross (@Free_Ross) October 30, 2015. Despite the conviction, Ross Ulbricht enjoys myriad supporters, including many....
Ross Ulbricht's defense attorney, Joshua Dratel, does not deny that his client founded the Silk Road. Indeed, Ulbricht began the illicit dark web drug market in February 2011, Dratel says, as a sort "economic experiment" relating to Ulbricht's libertarian belief system. However, the defense claims that after a few months, Ulbricht "found it too stressful" and turned the reigns over to other people who had begun working on it with him. Also read: Prosecutors Using Murder-for-Hire Plots Against Ross Ulbricht in Drug Case. Ross Ulbricht: Dread Pirate Roberts? In a 2013 interview with what....
US presidential candidate Gary Johnson has won the Libertarian Party nomination. He is also the only major presidential candidate to accepting donations in Bitcoin. May 29th at the Libertarian Party convention in Orlando, Florida, Johnson was chosen as the party’s nominee. He placed first on a first ballot vote, though with insufficient margins to win outright. On the second ballot, Johnson secured the nomination, edging out Austin Petersen and John McAffee, respectively. According to the donation page on the Johnson campaign website, Bitcoin is mentioned among the accepted forms of....