The Times UK reports that Colorado pig farmer John Long was at home when he learned that Marian Morgan, a scammer who stole $20 million from him and thousands of other investors through a Ponzi scheme, was being released from prison less than halfway through her 33-year sentence.

“It was not for good behavior or because she had paid her victims back,” the Times reports. “Morgan was being released because President Trump had commuted her sentence.” The report added that the move also freed the convicted fraudster from the restitution payments she owed her victims.

Long, an 80-year-old Trump voter, described Morgan as “criminally insane” and warned that she would only “going to suck money out of somebody” else.

According to the Times, Long and his son were approached in 2006 by Morgan and her co-conspirators, who claimed to be an exclusive group of financial advisers offering a low-risk opportunity to invest money in Europe with huge returns within months.

“Long and his son invested about half a million dollars. But time passed, and the money did not come back,” the Times reported. “When Long emailed Morgan asking where it was, she would send him ‘curt’ emails brushing off his inquiries, telling him that she was in Europe on business. But her IP address showed that she was in Florida, where she lived in a waterfront mansion with her husband, who was later sentenced to ten years in prison for conspiracy and money-laundering.”

She also told the victims that if they approached authorities, they would never see their money again.

Long nevertheless went to the FBI and testified at Morgan’s trial. She was convicted in 2011. He said the result now feels diminished by the president for whom he voted, underscoring how a clemency decision can reopen old wounds for victims even years after a fraud case is closed.

“We had justice and now it’s kind of like … ‘we’re going to let these criminals go out and do it again’,” Long told the Times.

The Times also reported that lawyers working on pardon cases say a “cottage industry” has developed under Trump, with attorneys and lobbyists close to the White House claiming they can use their access to the president to secure pardons for a price. Public records show the president has pardoned criminals after lobbying from allies.

Liz Oyer, the former head pardon attorney who was fired a few weeks after Trump returned to the White House, said pardons in the second Trump administration are “more blatantly a bought and sold commodity.” What was once a process involving petitions to the Department of Justice is now handled directly through the White House, she said.

“It’s not normal,” Oyer said. “The traditional criteria that the [DOJ] applies for recommending clemency have been largely abandoned by this administration, and the rigorous vetting process, which often involves investigations conducted by the FBI, has been abandoned.”

Judith Ausmus, another Trump voter, and her husband, Donald, owned a small vending machine company in Minnesota when they were drawn into Morgan’s scheme. They borrowed $100,000 from Ausmus’s brother, who also invested in the scam. Both were “financially devastated” when Morgan was exposed as a criminal. The Times reported that they lost their company and had to remortgage their house.

“It was tremendously hard times, all the way around, for all of us at that time,” Ausmus told the Times.

Times reporter Louise Callaghan said she only learned last week, during a call with Mrs. Ausmus, 80, that Morgan had been freed.

As a Trump supporter, Ausmus said she was “saddened” to hear that Trump had signed the order.

“After all she’s done to everybody,” Ausmus said, adding that Morgan “will probably go try to do something like it again.”