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Hours Before His Surrender, Ozy Media’s Carlos Watson Has His Sentence Commuted By President Trump
The move came hours before Watson was to enter prison.
The sentence was made in December 2024 – before Trump took office – by United States District Judge Eric R. Komitee in federal court in Brooklyn following Watson’s conviction in July after an eight-week trial. One of the strangest claims was that on multiple occasions, when faced with questions from lenders or potential investors, Watson and his co-conspirators assumed the identities of and impersonated actual media company executives to cover up their prior fraudulent misrepresentations. “Carlos Watson orchestrated a years-long, audacious scheme to defraud investors and lenders to his company, Ozy Media, out of tens of millions of dollars,” Breon Peace, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York said in December.
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