By PHILIP MARCELO and MICHAEL R. SISAK, Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — A convicted drug dealer who had been granted clemency by President Donald Trump was sent back to federal prison 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. The Long Island man had been accused of swinging an IV pole at a hospital nurse and threatening to kill her, screaming at a member of his synagogue, groping his family’s nanny and evading bridge tolls.

Braun, speaking in a Brooklyn federal court hearing attended by family and supporters, apologized to his victims and loved ones, who he acknowledged had tried to get him help for his substance abuse and mental health problems before he spiraled out of c

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