-copy.jpeg?width=1200&auto=webp&crop=3%3A2&ssl=1 "Drug dealer freed from prison by Trump now back behind bars for new crimes")
A convicted drug dealer earlier granted clemency by President Donald Trump has been sent back to prison after being charged with new crimes.
Jonathan Braun, of Long Island, was accused of threatening to kill a hospital nurse and swinging an IV pole at her.
He was also charged with groping his family’s nanny and evading bridge tolls.
Braun was sentenced to 27 months behind bars after prosecutors sought a five-year sentence.
Brooklyn federal Judge Kiyo Matsumoto said she hoped Braun’s “expressions of remorse” and promises to “lead a law abiding life” were in good faith.
She noted that many of the people who he had harmed had since forgiven him.
“Don’t squander it,” she said to Braun.
In seeking the maximum punishment allowed, prosecutors argued that a lengthy stint behind bars was “necessary to protect the public from further crimes.”
“The defendant’s brazen and violent conduct caused fear and terror in his victims,” prosecutors wrote in a court filing ahead of his sentencing.
Braun, they said, has continued to show that he is a “serious danger to the community.”
Braun has been locked up at a federal jail in Brooklyn since his arrest in April for violating the terms of his release. That time will be subtracted from his sentence.
Braun’s federal public defender, Kathryn Wozencroft, sought for him to be released immediately.
Since returning to jail, she said, Braun has been meeting with a psychiatrist, got sober and worked to rebuild his faith and community support, talking with a rabbi twice a week and expressing remorse to him for his actions.
Braun’s conduct was driven by addiction, she said.
