Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks inside a bulletproof glass enclosure during a campaign rally at the North Carolina Aviation Museum and Hall of Fame in Asheboro, North Carolina, U.S., August 21, 2024 .
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A convicted New York drug dealer and predatory lender He was released after being sentenced to 10 years in federal prison commuting Court records show that then-President Trump was arrested in 2021 on assault charges.
Jonathan Braun is accused in court documents in Nassau County, Long Island, of attacking his 75-year-old father-in-law on Tuesday as he tried to protect his daughter from Braun. Braun is also accused of assaulting the woman, his wife, last month and again last week. new york times the report said.
Braun pleaded not guilty to three counts of assault during his arraignment Wednesday and was released without bail on those charges, court records show.
He was also charged in Nassau County Supreme Court with petit larceny, which the Times reported related to his failure to pay $160 in bridge tolls while driving a Lamborghini and a Ferrari, both of which had no license plates.
In February, Manhattan federal court Judge Jed Rakoff sentenced Braun to a $20 million fine in a civil case brought against him by the Federal Trade Commission for predatory lending practices.
“The evidence … demonstrates that Mr. Braun not only personally participated in this illegal conduct, but also engaged in it with glee and little remorse,” Rakoff wrote in the ruling, which cited Braun. Emails sent regarding the loan.
CNBC has asked Braun’s attorney, Mark Fenich, for comment.
Carolyn Leavitt, a spokesperson for current Republican presidential candidate Trump, said in a statement about Braun’s arrest, “President Trump wants criminals to spend time in prison, unlike Kamala. ·Harris wants to end cash bail.
Vice President Harris is the Democratic presidential candidate.
On January 20, 2021, hours before leaving the White House, Trump pardoned Braun, who had been serving more than five years in prison for conspiracy to import marijuana and money laundering.
He remains on supervised release from his criminal conviction, meaning he could be sent back to federal prison if a judge finds he violated conditions of his release.
The Times reported last fall that Trump’s commutation stymied prosecutors’ efforts to negotiate a cooperation agreement with Braun that would have kept him out of prison in exchange for providing information about other predatory lenders. Conduct a criminal investigation.
The Times also reported that the Braun family used its relationship with the family of Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and a senior White House aide at the time, to initiate clemency for the then-president.
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