{"id":106919,"date":"2024-08-23T00:03:31","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T00:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/trump-clemency-recipient-arrested-for-allegedly-punching-father-in-law\/"},"modified":"2024-08-23T00:03:31","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T00:03:31","slug":"trump-clemency-recipient-arrested-for-allegedly-punching-father-in-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/trump-clemency-recipient-arrested-for-allegedly-punching-father-in-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump clemency recipient arrested for allegedly punching father-in-law"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-08-22\/Getty_082224_Trumpleavingcourthouse.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Michael M. Santiago\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(NEW YORK) &#8212; A Staten Island man who ran a large-scale marijuana smuggling operation and whose 10-year federal prison sentence was commuted by then-President Donald Trump has been arrested for domestic assault in Atlantic Beach.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Braun, 41, is charged with punching his father-in-law Tuesday after the elderly man came to the assistance of Braun&#8217;s wife, whom he was chasing after an argument, according to prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p>Braun pleaded not guilty. The judge released him on his own recognizance over the objection of the Nassau County District Attorney&#8217;s office, which requested bail.<\/p>\n<p>At the time Trump granted Braun clemency, on his last day in office, the White House said Braun &#8220;will seek employment to support his wife and children.&#8221; Braun has assaulted his wife numerous times since his release, according to court records.<\/p>\n<p>Braun also has a history of violence and threats.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of his clemency, Braun still faced investigations related to his role in an operation that made predatory loans to small-business owners.<\/p>\n<p>According to a lawsuit by the New York attorney general&#8217;s office, Braun called business owners and insulted, swore at and bullied them, demanding payment and making threats.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You have no idea what I&#8217;m going to do,&#8221; the lawsuit quoted Braun as allegedly saying. &#8220;I will take your daughters from you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Braun also threatened that he would come to one merchant&#8217;s synagogue in Brooklyn and physically beat him and &#8220;publicly embarrass him,&#8221; stating, &#8220;I am going to make you bleed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He threatened another, &#8220;Be thankful you&#8217;re not in New York, because your family would find you floating in the Hudson,&#8221; according to the lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>Braun was granted clemency, along with dozens of others, on Jan. 19, 2021, his last day in office before Joe Biden took over as president.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael M. Santiago\/Getty Images (NEW YORK) &#8212; A Staten Island man who ran a large-scale marijuana smuggling operation and whose 10-year federal prison sentence was commuted by then-President Donald Trump has been arrested for domestic assault in Atlantic Beach. Jonathan Braun, 41, is charged with punching his father-in-law Tuesday after<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/trump-clemency-recipient-arrested-for-allegedly-punching-father-in-law\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106919"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}