Trump commutes Galanis, second Biden-inquiry witness given clemency

On March 28, 2025, President Donald Trump commuted the sentence of Jason Galanis — Devon Archer's co-defendant in the $60 million tribal-bonds fraud — three days after pardoning Archer himself. Galanis had been sentenced in September 2020 to 189 months (15 years and nine months) for multiple fraud schemes, including manipulating the market for a publicly traded NYSE company and defrauding Native American tribes through fraudulent bond issuances. The warrant was made public April 1, 2025.

Galanis testified from federal prison in 2024 in House Republicans' Biden impeachment inquiry, telling lawmakers he and his partners had expected to make "billions" with Hunter Biden using the Biden family name in foreign business dealings, and that "the entire value add of Hunter Biden to our business was his family name and his access to his father." With Archer's pardon and Galanis's commutation in the same week, both star witnesses against the Biden family in the House inquiry had received presidential clemency within ten weeks of Trump's return to office. Trump's pardon of Devon Archer is captured in a companion action.