Why Trump made a deal to free Ross Ulbricht
January 17, 2025
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as posted by the channelA second chance for the creator of the dark web drug site the Silk Road might be coming…from an unlikely savior.
Zach's full interview with Angela McArdle is available here
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This assertion, originally made in reporting by Vanity Fair, has been disputed by Ulbricht's defense and the prosecuting U.S. Assistant Attorney, who testified that the only plea offer he was aware of carried "a mandatory minimum of ten years and a maximum sentence of life imprisonment."
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Ross Ulbricht was arrested at 29. Now, he's 40. He faces a double life sentence plus 40 years with no possibility of parole for creating the Silk Road, a dark web drug marketplace that facilitated $1.2 billion in bitcoin-denominated transactions.
"I'll spend the next few decades in this cage. Then, sometime later this century, I'll grow old and die. I'll finally leave prison, but I'll be in a body bag," he told an interviewer at a 2021 virtual blockchain conference.
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