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... Jonathan Braun was sentenced to 27 months behind bars.

The Long Island man had been accused of swinging an IV pole at a hospital nurse and threatening to kill her, screaming at a member of his synagogue, groping his family's nanny and evading bridge tolls.

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, noting that many of the people who he had harmed have since forgiven him.

"Don't squander it," she said to Braun.

Prosecutors had sought a five-year sentence, the maximum punishment allowed, arguing 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". ...