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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Isabel Keane

Trump frees New York private equity executive who defrauded victims of $1.6B

President Donald Trump has commuted the prison sentence of David Gentile, a private equity executive who was convicted of defrauding thousands of investors in a $1.6 billion scheme.

The former CEO and co-founder of GPB Capital Holdings served less than two weeks of his seven-year sentence when he was released from prison Wednesday, according to The New York Times.

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