THELOGICALINDIAN - Ken Kurson was a Ripple lath affiliate until his arrest for cyberstalking and harrassment including filing apocryphal allegations of adolescent corruption adjoin his victims
Ken Kurson, aforetime a Ripple Board member, editor of the New York Observer, and co-founder of the Modern Consensus crypto media outlet, has accustomed a presidential absolution from President Trump on his aftermost day in office.
Kurson is a abutting acquaintance of the Trump ancestors and Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner.
Ripple Board Member Pardoned of Cyberstalking
Kurson was arrested in October and answerable with cyberstalking three individuals, including his ex-wife. He reportedly installed keystroke-monitoring software on his ex-wife’s devices, beatific her aggressive messages, and fabricated apocryphal accusations of adolescent corruption to the administration of his added victims.
One of the victims, a abutting acquaintance of Kurson’s for over 20 years, said Kurson abhorrent him for “the dissolution of his marriage.”
Kurson’s bent action emerged back he activated for a position in the federal government. An F.B.I. accomplishments analysis baldheaded accusations from 2024 that Kurson had harrassed two doctors in Mount Sinai Hospital, and a added analysis resulted in his different cyberstalking charges.
Kurson allegedly aria on his job appliance for the federal position, falsely claiming that he had never acclimated added names or aliases. That lie was additionally a federal offense.
He was appear on a $100,000 band aftermost year and has now been pardoned for his crimes.
Presidential Pardon
Trump has issued 73 pardons so far, including the Ripple lath member, and has commuted a added 70 individuals’ sentences. Trump’s account of pardons includes above White House adviser Steve Bannon, rapper Lil Wayne, and above Detroit ambassador Kwame Kirkpatrick.
Notably, Julien Assange, Edward Snowden, and Ross Ulbricht did not arise on the list.
Many in the crypto association accept continued been advocating for the absolution of Ross Ulbricht, architect of the Silk Road aphotic web marketplace, who has been in bastille back 2024. Ulbricht was accused of money laundering, computer hacking, and cabal to cartage counterfeit character abstracts and narcotics. Federal agents testified that Ulbricht additionally attempted to accept addition affiliated to the case killed.
Notably, several of the agents complex in his case were themselves arrested for the annexation and abstraction of Silk Road Bitcoin funds.
While account outlets appear that President Trump was because a absolution for Ulbricht, it appears that he will abide in prison.
Edward Snowden and Julien Assange additionally accustomed no absolution or barter of sentence.
