President Trump Commutes Sentence Of Former Hunter Biden Business Partner

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President Trump commuted the sentence of Jason Galanis, a former Hunter Biden business associate.

Galanis had been serving a 14-year sentence in Montgomery, Alabama, after pleading guilty to defrauding an American Indian tribe.

From the New York Post:

Galanis cooperated briefly last year with House Republican investigators who were looking into his dealings with the 46th president’s son. He pleaded guilty to a $60 million scheme to sell bogus tribal bonds and was sentenced to 189 months in prison in September 2020.

House Republicans heard virtual testimony from Galanis while behind bars last year after he revealed a 2014 conversation then-Vice President Joe Biden had with his son and the former mayor of Moscow.

“You be good to my boy,” the elder Biden had told ex-Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov and his wife, the oligarch Yelena Baturina, during the May 4, 2014, according to Galanis.

Baturina had two months earlier transferred $3.5 million to a firm controlled by Hunter Biden and his business partner Devon Archer, who later became involved in the tribal bonds scheme with Galanis and received a full pardon from Trump last week.

Both Galanis and Archer were indicted in 2016 for the selling the phony bonds, with the latter receiving a conviction two years later and a one-year prison sentence.

Trump granted a full and unconditional pardon to Devon Archer.

“Many people have asked me to do this. They think he was treated very unfairly. And I looked at the records, studied the records. And he was a victim of a crime, as far as I’m concerned. So we’re going to undo that,” Trump said.

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Fox News reports:

Archer was a business associate of former first son Hunter Biden at Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings.

Archer was convicted in 2018 of defrauding a Native American tribe in a scheme that involved the issuance and sale of fraudulent tribal bonds. He was sentenced to just over a year in prison but had his conviction overturned and later reinstated in 2020. The Supreme Court rejected his appeal last year, leaving a prison sentence hanging in limbo until Trump’s pardon. Hunter Biden was not involved with the scheme.

Archer became a focal point of an investigation into the Biden family’s foreign business dealings, including testifying before the House Oversight Committee in 2023 on the Biden family’s influence. He told the committee that Hunter Biden had put his father on speakerphone while he was with business associates up to 20 times to sell “the brand,” but that the then-Vice President did not discuss business dealings directly.

The Biden White House maintained its innocence throughout the investigation, and the administration slammed Archer’s testimony in 2023 as “failing to produce” evidence of President Joe Biden being involved with his son’s business dealings.



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