Man Pardoned By Trump Sentenced to Jail For New Crimes, Including Alleged Sexual Abuse

President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Friday, Nov. 7, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Convicted drug dealer Jonathan Braun, who had his sentence commuted by President Donald Trump during his first term, is being sent back to prison after he violated terms of his supervised release with a series of heinous acts, including allegedly assaulting a three-year-old and sexually abusing a nanny.

Braun was sentenced to 27 months in prison on Monday in New York City.

He has been arrested several times since he was released from prison in early 2021, including in April for assaulting a man and his young son. Braun’s other offenses include swinging an IV pole at a hospital nurse before threatening to kill her, predatory lending, threatening a fellow member of his synagogue, and assaulting his wife and his 75-year-old father-in-law.

Yet another unsettling charge against him was his former live-in nanny testifying that Braun put her in a headlock, groped her breasts, and forced her hand over his genitals while he was naked on Feb. 15.

ABC News reported from court on Monday:

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.

Braun pled guilty to money laundering and drug trafficking charges in 2011, according to The New York Times, after federal prosecutors investigated him as one of the “most prominent marijuana dealers” in NYC. He was not sentenced until 2019.

He was freed from prison in January 2021, after his family leveraged “a connection” to Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, the NYT reported.

While Braun was sentenced to 27 months, he will only have to serve 20 of them, due to the credit he is receiving for time served. NYT reported Judge Matsumoto also said he will need to serve three and a half years of supervised release after he exits prison, as well as undergo six months of “residential treatment for drug abuse and mental illness.”