Former New York Republican Rep. Chris Collins was released from a Pensacola prison on Tuesday, the same day President Trump granted him and several other high-profile individuals pardons.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons updated Collins' records to reflect his release just three days before Christmas. Collins, 70, was sentenced in January to 26 months in a minimum-security Florida jail for securities fraud.
Federal investigators said Collins provided non-public information about biotechnology company Innate – where he sat on the board – to his son Cameron, tipping him off in June 2017 that a drug the company was working on had failed a clinical trial so Cameron could sell his shares before the stock price went down.