FILE - Benjamin Reuben Zalman-Polun, left, Marcel Malanga and Tyler Thompson, all American citizens, attend a court verdict in Congo, Kinshasa, Friday, Sept. 13, 2024, on charges of taking part in ...

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Donald Trump has commuted the sentence of Carlos Watson, co-founder of Ozy Media, shortly before he was due to report to prison to serve a 10-year sentence in a financial conspiracy case.

Watson launched the digital lifestyle and news site in 2012. The sentence was handed down in December 2024 – before Trump took office – by U.S. District Judge Eric R. Komitee in federal court ...

It’s only the fourth time that a life sentence has been handed down in New Zealand for meth offending.