Overview
- Judge Kiyo A. Matsumoto ordered Braun back to federal prison for 27 months, with credit for roughly seven months already served.
- Upon release, Braun must complete about three and a half years of supervised release and undergo six months of residential treatment for substance abuse and mental illness.
- Prosecutors argued he remained a serious danger and sought the statutory maximum of five years, citing a pattern of brazen and violent conduct.
- Alleged violations included threatening a nurse with an IV pole, sexually assaulting a live-in nanny, menacing a synagogue congregant, evading bridge tolls, and failing to make complete financial disclosures.
- Braun’s defense attributed his behavior to addiction and a psychiatric crisis; he expressed remorse in court and said custody helped him get sober after his 2021 commutation by President Trump of a 2019 ten-year drug sentence.