A convicted drug dealer who gave Donald Trump federal bail was reinstated on Monday for violating the terms of his release after being charged with several new crimes.
Jonathan Braun was sentenced to 27 months behind bars.
Long Island Man accused of swinging an IV Pole at a hospital ner and threatening to kill him, yelling at a member of his synagogue, storming his synagogue, storming his synagogue, and burdening his family’s nannies and moving tolls on his family and evading bridges.
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 he had harmed have since forgiven him.
“Don’t do it,” he told Braun.
Prosecutors sought a five-year sentence, the maximum penalty allowed, arguing that a long stint behind bars was “necessary to protect the public from further crimes.
“The bad behavior and violent behavior caused fear and terror in his victims,” prosecutors wrote in a court filing ahead of his sentencing. Braun, they said, continues to show that he is a “grave danger to the community”.
Braun has been locked up in a federal prison in Brooklyn since he was arrested in April for violating the terms of his release. That time will be transferred from his sentence.
Braun was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison in 2019 after pleading guilty to drug-related charges. He served about a year behind bars before the US president announced his sentence in the final days of his first term in January 2021.
Braun was released from prison, but the rest of his sentence remained intact, including requirements that he pay a fine and stay out of trouble.