HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump has commuted the prison sentence of former investment manager David Gentile, who was convicted of defrauding investors — the latest in a series of clemency actions Trump has taken in white-collar criminal cases.
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Gentile had reported to prison on Nov. 14, just days before Trump commuted his sentence, according to a White House official who requested anonymity to provide details of the clemency action. Gentile had been the CEO and co-founder of GPB Capital, which had raised $1.6 billion in capital to acquire companies in the auto, retail, health care and housing sectors.
He had been sentenced to seven years in prison after an August 2024 conviction for his role in what the Justice Department at the time described as a scheme to defraud more than 10,000 investors by misrepresenting the performance of three private equity funds.
But the White House official said GPB Capital had disclosed to investors in 2015 that their capital might go to pay dividends to other investors, which the White House said undercut claims that the company had engaged in a “Ponzi” scheme in which new investments are used to reimburse previous investors.
The government has agreed to no restitution in the criminal case, though various civil cases are handling repayments and damages to investors.
How much does it cost to buy a pardon these days from trump?
President Donald Trump issued a full pardon in mid-November to Joseph Schwartz, who ran Skyline Healthcare, a chain that operated dozens of nursing homes nationwide.
Schwartz pleaded guilty earlier this year to failing to pay approximately $38 million in payroll taxes withheld from employees across his facilities. The taxes never reached the Internal Revenue Service.
I’m not convinced this isn’t a made up person who was 3d printed in a lab and retroactively documented this year.
if he really did defraud investors so he deserves time in jail.
If he did not defraud investors, so the courts need to be investigated.
At least it’s a gentilewew…
This proves Trump is an Antisemite. Let’s see him commute the sentence of someone whose last name is “Jew”
no pardon for druggies