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Lakento Smith, freed from prison just last year after President Biden commuted his 30-year sentence, is now back in federal court facing fresh charges for conspiring to launder drug money. Records show he allegedly resumed trafficking cocaine to Michigan while still incarcerated, even telling an undercover DEA agent he was “fresh home” and needed protection. Smith, now 54, is accused of working with a Muskegon dealer to funnel $130,000 in drug proceeds from his Houston home to bank accounts in Mexico — including his wife’s — and even used illicit cash to buy a box truck. His request to end court supervision, citing rehabilitation and a new trucking business, clashes with prosecutors’ claims his wife was a key conduit for drug money. This case reignites debate over clemency’s effectiveness, especially as nearly 100 Trump-era clemency recipients have since faced new charges.

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