President Donald Trump has commuted the jail sentence of former funding supervisor David Gentile, who was convicted of defrauding buyers — the most recent in a collection of clemency actions Trump has taken in white-collar felony circumstances.
Gentile had reported to jail on Nov. 14, simply days earlier than Trump commuted his sentence, in accordance with a White Home official who requested anonymity to supply particulars of the clemency motion. Gentile had been the CEO and co-founder of GPB Capital, which had raised $1.6 billion in capital to amass firms within the auto, retail, well being care and housing sectors.
He had been sentenced to seven years in jail after an August 2024 conviction for his function in what the Justice Division on the time described as a scheme to defraud greater than 10,000 buyers by misrepresenting the efficiency of three non-public fairness funds.
However the White Home official mentioned GPB Capital had disclosed to buyers in 2015 that their capital would possibly go to pay dividends to different buyers, which the White Home mentioned undercut claims that the corporate had engaged in a “Ponzi” scheme during which new investments are used to reimburse earlier buyers.
The federal government has agreed to no restitution within the felony case, although varied civil circumstances are dealing with repayments and damages to buyers.
—Josh Boak, Related Press
