Sources claim ‘sympathetic’ Trump is considering pardon for Silk Road founder

[Cordillerabit]

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 the President has been made aware of the situation.

Two sources claim that Trump has privately expressed sympathy for Ulbricht and has considered his name for the next round of pardons.

Speaking to the publication, Ulbricht’s mother Lyn expressed admiration for Trump’s criminal justice reform policies, adding:

“We’re praying and remain hopeful that he will show mercy on Ross, as he has others, and commute his sentence to time served and give my son a second chance at life.”
Jo Jorgensen, the 2020 candidate for the Libertarian Party, campaigned for the pardoning of Ulbricht, in addition to whistle blowers Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning.

Trump has a little over a month to grant the pardon, with President-elect Joe Biden being sworn into office on Jan. 20.

Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/sources-claim-sympathetic-trump-is-considering-pardon-for-silk-road-founder

[TomPluz]

In many cases, an outgoing president has this tendency to be granting paroles or lowering sentences to people catching his attention. Maybe this can be the case with President Donald Trump on cases of Ross Ulbricht, Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning. Well, let's hope that before the end of his term the paroles can be finalized.

[disconnectme]

If trump can grant him pardon with other guys like Wikileak founder it would be great, we have some of these politicians and government officials that have done things that is far worse than this and are still working freely in the space. Silk road is one of the major use that pave the way for Bitcoin adoption