Biden commutes prison sentence in NEK homicide case

Outgoing President Joe Biden has agreed to provide last-minute clemency for the 15-year federal prison sentence imposed on a man linked to a drug-related homicide in the Northeast Kingdom in October 2018 — apparently without checking with prosecutors. Vermont News First has been told Michael Anthony Hayes, 42, was one of nearly 2,500 federal inmates that Biden announced on Friday that he was slashing their prison sentences. Hayes will be discharged by summer.