Silk Road creator pardoned by President Trump

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Hosts: Erin Rider and Greg Skordas

Once called the “eBay for drugs,” Silk Road was a major dark web marketplace for buying drugs. Its founder, Ross Ulbricht, was sentenced to two life sentences – plus forty years – in 2015. This week, President Trump pardoned Ulbricht. Why? What does the president get for pardoning Ulbricht? Hosts Erin Rider and Greg Skordas discuss the connections to cryptocurrency, and whether the pardoning was Trump’s retribution for something else.

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