Drug Dealer Granted Clemency by Trump Sent Back to Prison After Accusations of Molesting His Kids’ Nanny, Assaulting Toddler By Sean Neumann

A convicted drug dealer who was freed by President Donald Trump in the final hours of his first term in office has been sentenced to prison again — this time after accusations of physical and sexual assault, according to reports.

Jonathan Braun, who had his original drug sentence commuted by Trump, 79, on his final day in office, was sentenced Monday, Nov. 10, to 27 months in prison as well as three and a half years of supervised release, according to The New York Times, ABC News and The New York Daily News.

Braun, 42, was charged with violating the terms of his supervised release, which came in January 2021 after Trump granted him clemency.

Braun specifically was accused in court of sexually assaulting his children’s nanny, with prosecutors claiming that he put her in a headlock, grabbed her breasts and then forcibly put her hand on his bare genitals after breaking into her bedroom, according to ABC News and the Daily News.

Braun was further accused of violently swinging a hospital IV pole at a nurse while threatening to “f—ing kill” her, per the outlets, which noted he was also accused of grabbing the arm of threatening and grabbing the arm of a fellow congregant at a New York City synagogue.

The Times reported that Braun had also repeatedly evaded bridge tolls in New York City while driving his Lamborghini and Ferrari, per prosecutors, and that he received a $100,000 fine at his 2019 sentencing that he failed to pay.

In addition, Braun was accused of physically assaulting a 3-year-old child in April, according to the outlet, which ultimately led to his detention that month while awaiting a hearing on and subsequent sentencing for officially violating the supervised release he was granted as part of his 2021 sentence commutation.

Federal inmate records reviewed by PEOPLE show Braun is still in custody at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn as of Tuesday, Nov. 11.

Following his 27-month sentence, the Times reported that Judge Kiyo A. Matsumoto of Federal District Court in Brooklyn ruled that Braun will also be required to undergo rehabilitation treatment for drug abuse and mental illness.

Braun is the eighth person that has been charged with additional crimes since they received a pardon or had their initial sentences commuted by Trump during the sweeping, large-scale grants of clemency he issued on his final day in office during his first term, according to the Times.

According to ABC, Braun was a high-ranking member of an international drug smuggling operation that moved roughly 220,460 pounds of marijuana across the Canadian border and into the United States more than a decade before recreational marijuana was legalized in New York.

Braun initially fled to Israel after federal prosecutors began investigating him as one of the largest marijuana dealers operating in New York City at the time, according to the Times.

The newspaper reported that Braun had returned to the United States after he was placed on the Interpol list, later pleading guilty to drug trafficking charges in 2010. However, Braun remained free while his sentencing was delayed until 2019 when Matsumoto, the same judge who sentenced him back to federal prison on Monday, initially ordered him to serve 10 years in jail. 

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Roughly a year after reporting to federal prison in 2020, Trump granted Braun his release in January 2021. The Times reported that Braun wound up on Trump’s clemency list due to his family leaning on their connections to Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner.

“Upon his release, Mr. Braun will seek employment to support his wife and children,” the White House said at the time Braun was released — before he was later accused of sexually assaulting his family’s live-in nanny and physically abusing a toddler.

“The defendant’s brazen and violent conduct caused fear and terror in his victims,” prosecutors reportedly wrote in a court filing ahead of his sentencing on Monday, per ABC, calling Braun a “serious danger to the community.”

The White House did not respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment on Braun’s latest criminal sentencing or offer a response to the administration’s 2021 decision to grant his freedom.

A spokesperson for the Trump administration also did not respond to questions regarding its vetting process that led to the administration’s 2021 decision to grant Braun a pardon.

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