“I have a theory about many of these cases where criminals with long sentences are seemingly being released in large numbers.”
I have a theory too. There are one or two that he desperately wants freed for whatever reason. So he releases a few hundred. We have no way to know who really paid him the bribe, who was a Saudi buddy, who was a co-conspirator, or what.
Like a helo dropping a recon team and making several widely dispersed landings. You get to figure out where the team actually got off. Its not random that he is releasing so many, its a tactic.
Like when Clinton fired all the US Attorneys when there was only one he was really interested in.