# Jason Galanis **Jason Galanis** is the financier who spearheaded the scheme to fraudulently issue more than **$60 million in tribal bonds**, defrauding the Wakpamni Lake Community Corporation, a business arm of the Oglala Sioux Tribe. He pleaded guilty to roles in two securities-fraud schemes and was sentenced in 2020 to 189 months in prison, ordered to pay nearly **$162 million in forfeiture and restitution**. [[Donald Trump]] **commuted his sentence in March 2025** as part of the [[Trump 2025 Pardon Spree]]. Galanis was the architect of the same fraud for which co-defendant [[Devon Archer]] — Hunter Biden's former business partner — was convicted. Like Archer, Galanis testified before congressional investigators about the Biden family, and the clemency tracked that politically useful cooperation rather than any claim of innocence. The commutation extinguished the prospect of recovering the restitution owed to the defrauded tribal enterprise. ## Cross-references - Co-defendant: [[Devon Archer]] - Clemency event: [[Trump 2025 Pardon Spree]] - Mechanism: [[Pardons as Currency]] - Accountability frame: [[Elite Impunity]]