House Republicans are probing whether the Department of Justice retaliated against one of their impeachment witnesses — a former business associate of Hunter Biden who
revealed a 2014 conversation then-Vice President Biden had with his son and the former mayor of Moscow.
Jason Galanis, who is currently serving a 14-year federal prison sentence for defrauding an American Indian tribe, disclosed a May 4, 2014, speaker phone conversation between Hunter and Joe Biden and Russian oligarch Yelena Baturina and her husband, the ex-Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov.
Galanis was interviewed last month from his prison cell in Montgomery, Ala., and during his stay, he alleged he had been a “victim of a pattern of retribution by the Department of Justice” to hinder congressional investigators.
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House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer (R-Ky.), House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Rep. Andy Biggs on Tuesday sent letters on Tuesday to Bureau of Prisons Director Colette Peters and Manhattan Assistant US Attorney Negar Tekeei about the allegations.
“Mr. Galanis specifically alleged in his transcribed interview that he has been singled out for unequal treatment while in BOP custody after he asserted in a petition for commutation of his sentence that Hunter Biden and another business associate, Devon Archer, were complicit in the same illegal acts that landed Mr. Galanis in jail,” the lawmakers wrote in the missives,
copies of which were obtained exclusively by The Post.
Galanis, 53, was sentenced in 2020 but applied under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act for home confinement three years later.
While receiving initial approval in California and Florida, Galanis’ appeal “was reversed” the day after the Oversight Committee subpoenaed Archer, Hunter’s former business partner.
“I understand from a former high-ranking Bureau of Prisons [BOP] official that the SDNY prosecutors aggressively weighed in with the Bureau of Prisons staff to oppose my release,” Galanis told House lawmakers during his interview.
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