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16 Dec, 5 tweets, 2 min read
EXCLUSIVE: President Trump is weighing granting clemency to Ross Ulbricht, the founder and former administrator of the world’s most famous darknet drug market, Silk Road, The Daily Beast has learned trib.al/LeApQRK
According to three people familiar with the matter, the White House counsel’s office has had documents related to Ulbricht’s case under review, and Trump was recently made aware of the situation and the pleas of the Silk Road founder’s allies trib.al/LeApQRK
“We’re praying and remain hopeful that [President Trump] 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,” Lyn Ulbricht, Ross’ mother, told The Daily Beast trib.al/LeApQRK
Ulbricht was the founder and administrator of the Silk Road darknet drug market, which used the Tor anonymity network to hide the location of servers and cryptocurrencies like bitcoin to allow users to purchase drugs anonymously trib.al/LeApQRK
Read the full exclusive by @swin24 and @arawnsley here: trib.al/LeApQRK

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