“Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JASON GALANIS was sentenced to 189 months in prison for his participation in multiple fraudulent schemes. In particular, GALANIS was sentenced for his role in a scheme to manipulate the market for Gerova Financial Group, Ltd (‘Gerova’), a publicly traded company listed on the New York Stock Exchange, and defrauding the shareholders of that company (the ‘Gerova Scheme’), and for defrauding the clients of an investment advisory firm. GALANIS was also sentenced for his role in a scheme to defraud a Native American tribal entity and the investing public of tens of millions of dollars in connection with the issuance of bonds by the tribal entity (the ‘Tribal Bond Scheme’).”

“GALANIS pled guilty on January 31, 2020, to a seven-count information charging GALANIS with participation in the Gerova and Tribal Bond Schemes. GALANIS was sentenced today by United States District Judge P Kevin Castel. GALANIS had previously been sentenced, in February 2017, for his participation in the Gerova Scheme and, in August 2017, for his participation in the Tribal Bond Scheme, but those convictions were subsequently vacated. Acting US Attorney Audrey Strauss said: ‘Jason Galanis orchestrated two multimillion-dollar fraud schemes, and hid behind a team of co-conspirators to conceal his involvement and defy an SEC ban. He and his codefendants engaged in market manipulation and the defrauding of shareholders, and they stole a large portion of the proceeds of tribal bonds that were intended to fund economic development projects. Now Jason Galanis has been sentenced to a lengthy prison term that reflects the magnitude and pervasiveness of his crimes,'” says a September 24, 2020 Justice Department press release that continues for quite some length about the elaborate securities fraud scheme.

Why does a nearly four year-old Justice Department press release matter now? Well…

Comer and Jordan literally sent their investigators to an Alabama federal prison to interview this Galanis asshole – a member of a “notorious crime family” – because something something Hunter Biden, apparently not considering the idea that maybe, just maybe he might be motivated to make shit up in the hopes that Trump would pardon him if he would help him politically.