The drug kingpin, who was convicted in the murder of a federal law enforcement officer in 1990, shared an attorney with Donald Trump Jr. He had his life sentence commuted by President Donald Trump on the last day of Trump's term.
Additional background info:
All Trump's Recidivistswww.emptywheel.net
It may have taken no more than ten days for Trump's pardon recipients to start criming again. That's unsurprising: For the people close to Trump (including Bernie Kerik, who played a key role in Rudy Giuliani's cultivation of the Big Lie), he often pardoned them so that they could put their skills to work for him.
Trump wants to fearmonger about the very small percentage of migrants who turn to crime.
But there's a far higher percentage of people whom Trump plucked from prisons (or spared from prison entirely) who turned back to crime.
Which is not surprising. These are Trump's people, after all.
Just a reminder of another accused wifebeater whose prison sentence Trump communted:
Police Arrest Loan Shark Whose Sentence Was Commuted By Donald Trumpwww.newsweek.com
A convicted loan shark and drug smuggler whose sentence was commuted by Donald Trump has been arrested for assaulting his wife and father-in-law.
The father of 41-year-old Jonathan Braun had hired Trump's impeachment lawyer, Alan Dershowitz, for legal advice on commutation.
In January 2021, just before leaving the White House, Trump issued 143 pardons and commutations, including a commutation for Braun.
Braun was released after serving five years of a 13-year-sentence for drug importation and money laundering.
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