★ Government Action
Trump commutes Galanis, second Biden-inquiry witness given clemency
DOJ Political InterferenceTrump Pardons
Filed March 2025
★ The Brief
What happened
On March 28, 2025, Trump commuted Jason Galanis's 189-month federal sentence, imposed in September 2020 for defrauding Native American tribes with fraudulent bonds and for stock-market manipulation; Galanis was Devon Archer's co-defendant in the same scheme.
Who enabled it
Who benefits
Deal or steal?
Galanis testified from federal prison in House Republicans' 2024 impeachment inquiry that Hunter Biden's "entire value add" was his family name and access to his father; his clemency landed three days after Trump pardoned co-defendant Devon Archer, the inquiry's other key witness.
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.
Actors
Who pushed it · 1Who initiated, paid, or pushed the action.
Donald TrumpSigned Jason Galanis's sentence commutation on March 28, 2025, three days after pardoning Devon Archer in the same underlying tribal-bonds case.
Beneficiaries
Who gained · 1Who stood to gain.
- Jason Galanis
Received a presidential commutation, ending the 189-month federal sentence imposed in September 2020 for tribal-bonds fraud and NYSE market manipulation. Testified from federal prison in House Republicans' 2024 Biden impeachment inquiry that the "entire value add" of Hunter Biden was the Biden family name and access to Joe Biden.
Further reading
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