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President Donald J. Trump commuted the prison term of David Gentile, who led GPB Capital, less than two weeks after he began serving a seven-year sentence in a $1.6 billion fraud that prosecutors said harmed more than 10,000 investors.
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![The Secretaries have succeeded, apparently well beyond their immediate intentions. [Footnote 33] One may speculate that they acted under instructions from the White House, but speculation is not...
[Footnote 33]; 33 One reason for this, of course, is that this gambit has been accompanied by the Trump administration's full-throated assault on the First Amendment across the board under the cover of an unconstitutionally broad definition of Anti-Semitism. As it should, this Court confines itself to the facts proven herein and makes no further comment.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreigdegxmcjgnppzthpxz7cyp6lvawpgumaxoik6qhig4uisz7kk4b4)
