{"id":35297,"date":"2025-11-10T20:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T20:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/35297\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T20:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T20:47:07","slug":"ex-trafficker-with-staten-island-ties-once-pardoned-by-trump-is-back-in-prison-on-disturbing-new-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/35297\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-trafficker with Staten Island ties once pardoned by Trump is back in prison on disturbing new charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"articleLabel__link\" class=\"articleLabel__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.silive.com\/crime-safety\/\" title=\"Navigate to Crime &amp; Safety\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime &amp; Safety<\/a>Updated: Nov. 10, 2025, 3:37 p.m.|Published: Nov. 10, 2025, 2:56 p.m.<img fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" alt=\"Jonathan Braun\" class=\"hero-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/PLSFK77I4BE6TNLREZ6ZH7TRW4.jpg\"  \/>Jonathan Braun, formerly of Meiers Corners, was sentenced Monday in Brooklyn federal court for a series of incidents that occurred after Braun was pardoned in 2021 by President Donald J. Trump on charges of drug trafficking.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"HMHNJFAYF5DVDPS6KLPPMWYX4Q\">STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 A felon with Staten Island ties who was once pardoned by President Trump is headed back to prison, after what federal prosecutors described as a series of threatening and violent acts. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"FTCBUNGN4JBGBBGKUVQNMKL2MM\">Jonathan Braun, 42, was convicted in 2011 of conspiracy and money laundering. But Trump commuted his 10-year prison sentence. Braun\u2019s family had ties to Jared Kushner, the president\u2019s son-in-law, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/11\/26\/us\/politics\/trump-pardon-braun.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/11\/26\/us\/politics\/trump-pardon-braun.html\">New York Times<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--center skimlinks\">If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/user-agreement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/privacy-policy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crime &amp; SafetyUpdated: Nov. 10, 2025, 3:37 p.m.|Published: Nov. 10, 2025, 2:56 p.m.Jonathan Braun, formerly of Meiers Corners,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-35297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}