Donald Trump issued hundreds of pardons during his first 100 days in office, including early clemency for Ross Ulbricht, three founders of BitMEX
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The President has pardoned hundreds of people in his first 100 days in office, including multiple crypto-related criminals, and the January 6 rioters who trashed the Capitol
Trump pardoned Ross Ulbricht, the operator of dark web drug trafficking site Silk Road, within his first few days in office, terminating Ulbricht’s life sentence after he had spent 12 years in jail.
In addition, he pardoned three founders of crypto exchange BitMEX as well as another executive at the company
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