The Silk Road and Bitcoin

In the news today ...

White House defends pardon of ex-Honduran president convicted of drug trafficking

[...] During a White House press briefing, Leavitt justified the administration’s lifeline to Hernández, arguing the two-term president’s charges had been mired by a corrupt “over-prosecution” under former President Joe Biden’s administration ...

This explanation seems disingenuous at best, in part because it was Trump's personal lawyer and now federal judge, Emil Bove, who was one of those who built a case against and prosecuted the brother of the ex-president of Honduras ...

Trump formally pardons former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández

[...] Though the Trump administration is blaming the Biden administration, Hernández’s brother was actually prosecuted by Emil Bove during Trump’s first term in office. Bove then served as Trump’s personal attorney before becoming a federal judge nominated by Trump ...

This is not the first time Trump has pardoned a drug trafficker ...

Trump pardons Silk Road dark web market creator Ross Ulbricht

US President Donald Trump says he has signed a full and unconditional pardon for Ross Ulbricht, who operated Silk Road, the dark web marketplace where illegal drugs were sold. Ulbricht was convicted in 2015 in New York in a narcotics and money-laundering conspiracy and sentenced to life in prison ...