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Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández was released from US prison after a pardon from Donald Trump, despite a 45-year sentence for drug trafficking, amid controversy and political implications in Honduras and the US.
British billionaire Joe Lewis has avoided US prison time in an insider trading case after reaching a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The settlement requires Lewis to pay $10 million in fines and forfeited profits. The case involved allegations that Lewis made $70 million in illicit profits by trading on nonpublic information about a merger.
Heather Mack, who conspired with her boyfriend to kill her mother in Bali in 2014, has been sentenced to 26 years in a U.S. prison after pleading guilty to conspiring to kill a U.S. national. The sentence, just shy of the 28 years sought by prosecutors, also includes restitution and a fine. Mack's case drew international attention, as she was previously convicted in Indonesia and spent seven years in jail there before returning to Chicago to face federal charges.