Donald Trump called to commute the sentence of Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the Silk Road online marketplace, in an attempt to position himself as a pro-cryptocurrency candidate to Libertarian voters.

  • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Wow, the problem with Silk Road wasn’t crypto. That’s not why he was convicted and sentenced to Life imprisonment without the possibility of parole plus a $183,961,921 fine.

    • Engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise
    • Distributing narcotics
    • Distributing narcotics by means of the Internet
    • Conspiring to distribute narcotics
    • Conspiring to commit money laundering
    • Conspiring to traffic in false identity documents
    • Conspiring to commit computer hacking

    Makes sense Trump wouldn’t care at all about criminal convictions though, those are his friends.