President Donald Trump on Wednesday commuted the prison sentence of the former manager of a kosher slaughterhouse in Iowa convicted of fraud charges.

Sholom Rubashkin, former vice president of Agriprocessors Inc., has served eight years of a 27-year sentence after his 2009 conviction on 86 federal financial fraud charges.

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At the time, Sanford University law professor Robert Weisberg said the sentence was out of proportion.

“I don’t understand why it was a longer sentence than what the prosecution asked for, especially when the prosecution asked for a sentence that was already pretty severe,” he said.