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President Trump on Friday commuted the sentence of another ex-Hunter Biden business associate, Jason Galanis, for defrauding an American Indian tribe.

Trump’s order signed March 28 authorized US Bureau of Prisons acting director William Lothrop “to immediately release” the federal inmate, who had been serving a 14-year sentence at a corrections center in Montgomery, Ala.

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.


  Former Hunter Biden business associate Jason Galanis has had his prison sentence commuted by President Trump. X / @jasongalanis Former Hunter Biden business associate Jason Galanis has had his prison sentence commuted by President Trump. X / @jasongalanis

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.


  Trump last week pardoned another ex-Hunter associate, Devon Archer. REUTERS Trump last week pardoned another ex-Hunter associate, Devon Archer. REUTERS

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.

“I think he was treated very unfairly,” Trump said last Tuesday before signing off on Archer’s pardon at the White House.

“And I looked at the record, studied the record, and he was a victim of a crime, as far as I’m concerned. So we’re going to undo that.”

Archer, who also testified to House GOP investigators about Joe Biden joining speakerphone calls with more of his son’s foreign business associates, was also ordered to forfeit $15.7 million and pay restitution of $43.4 million.

At the time of the sales, Hunter Biden was serving as vice chairman of Burnham Financial Group with a salary of $200,000, according to trial testimony and emails found on the former first son’s abandoned laptop.


  Galanis had cooperated with investigators looking into Hunter’s business activities. Getty Images Galanis had cooperated with investigators looking into Hunter’s business activities. Getty Images

Federal court documents showed Burnham Securities, the placement agent for the bond sales, was controlled by Burnham Financial Group.

In his final months in office, Joe Biden pardoned his son of tax and gun convictions, as well as any possible crimes he may have committed between Jan. 1, 2014, and Dec. 1, 2024.

Archer previously told The Post he was grateful to Trump, 78, and his family for sticking by him amid the conviction — as well as to Tony Bobulinski, an ex-Biden family associate who corroborated information about different foreign dealings allegedly involving Joe Biden.

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