Trump releases fraudster executive days into prison sentence
By: Sakshi Venkatraman
This is what happens when a corrupt individual is given power. Trump is quite aware that he is a crook who has lied and cheated his entire life. So, of course, this corrupt psychopath will grant pardons and commute sentences for his fellow crooks. Do unto other criminals as you would have the system do unto you.
How does a Trump supporter live with the fact that they are supporting and defending a criminal who is abusing his power and reversing justice for his fellow criminals?
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US President Donald Trump has commuted the sentence of former investment manager David Gentile, who was just days into a seven-year prison sentence for fraud.
Bureau of Prisons records show that Gentile was released on Wednesday, less than two weeks after he reported to prison.
Gentile, the former chief executive and founder of GPB Capital, was convicted last year in what federal prosecutors described as a multi-year scheme to defraud more than 10,000 investors by misrepresenting the performance of private equity funds.
He's the latest in a string of white-collar criminals whose sentences Trump has commuted.
Gentile was convicted in August last year of securities and wire fraud charges, and sentenced in May. His co-defendant, Jeffry Schneider, was sentenced to six years on the same charges and is due to report to prison in January.
US attorney Joseph Nocella said at the time of Gentile's sentencing that GPB Capital was built on a "foundation of lies" and that the company made $1.6bn (£1.2bn) while using investor capital to pay distributions to other investors.
"The sentences imposed today are well deserved and should serve as a warning to would-be fraudsters that seeking [sic] to get rich by taking advantage of investors gets you only a one-way ticket to jail," he said.
But the White House says the Department of Justice under former President Joe Biden made multiple missteps - and that investors were aware that their money could be going towards other people's dividends.
"Even though this was disclosed to investors the Biden Department of Justice claimed this was a Ponzi scheme," the White House official said.
"This claim was profoundly undercut by the fact that GPB had explicitly told investors what would happen."
The official also cited concerns from Gentile that prosecutors had elicited false testimony.
Trump's commutation of Gentile's sentence does not clear him of his crimes like a full presidential pardon would, and it does not get rid of other potential penalties imposed.
So far in his second term, the president has pardoned or commuted the sentences of multiple people convicted of different types of fraud, including wire, securities, tax and healthcare fraud.
Last month, he pardoned Tennessee state House Speaker Glen Casada who was convicted of fraud, money laundering and conspiracy charges.
Correction 1 December 2025: This article incorrectly stated that Jeffry Schneider "remains behind bars". It has been amended to make clear that he is yet to begin serving his prison sentence.
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Just sickening. Who would have thought our nation would elect such an abysmal, dishonest, corrupt individual to the presidency and then continue to support the criminal as he abuses his powers?
How can conservative supporters abandon core principles such as the rule of law, personal responsibility, etc.?
trump is a salesman and he's selling those pardons ...
Ding, ding, ding. We have a winner.
He's corrupt to the core. Hell, I think he's doubled his wealth since the inauguration, largely on crypto, which he used to call a scam.
Curious why he bombs drug boats while at the same time he pardons a major Honduran drug Lord. One pays better?
don jr controls the coke moving thru florida now ...
all of it passes under his nose now ...
Trump has always had a soft spot in his heart for Ponzi schemes.
I feel like falling for a Trump scam should socially brand you with a scarlet T. At this point how could anyone with a thinking brain not see it coming?
Seems all democrats but very few republicans did.
I'm thinking about a 4 inch diameter swastika branded into their right cheek and burning out their right eye ...
Bernie Madoff died too soon, but maybe Trump will pardon him posthumously. What sickens me is that he pardoned the Jan6 insurrectionists. How can Americans be proud of that, and say their government is superior? Trump not only supported it, but supports it elsewhere, as in Brazil.
Remember when presidents tried to conduct themselves ethically and honorably while in office? Trump doesn't even hide his corruption.
He also just pardoned Ex-Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez, who was convicted in the U.S. of drug trafficking, while he pretends to care about drug trafficking.
Worst "president" ever, bottom of the barrel. History will not be kind.
Note also how easily this blatant corruption can spread in our government. Doesn't take much to get a whole lot of accomplices involved in the scam.
name one trump appointee still working within this administration that isn't in on the grift ...
A fish rots from the head down.
it's going to be hilarious watching trump's family play squid games in real life after he's gone ...
Don't know the details of the case against David Gentile. There are some rather odd details. Both David Gentile and Jeffry Schneider were convicted in August 2024, sentenced in May 2025, and only David Gentile had reported to prison on Nov. 22, 2025. And apparently Jeffry Schneider doesn't have to report to prison until Jan. 2026. 15 months seems like a long period of freedom begore paying a debt to society.
Something smells fishy about the whole thing.
I did find the commutation, too, for those who are interested.
I really expect a book to come out after he passes away that details every slimy, corrupt, petty part of his life
A very thick book.
too match the skulls of his enablers and supporters
nobody's going to buy a book with a granite cover ...
Trump might counter that offer...
maybe his thumper sycophants will rewrite the bible, right after they're finished with the maga constitution ...
the maga version where the new testament is eliminated, and OT incest and pedophilia is celebrated ...
"Mail Order Bride" by Melania Trump... "It was the worst of times, it was the worst of times...".
she couldn't immigrate on a porn model work visa without help from jeff ...
apparently cleaning carpets on film and jerking off millionaires is a skilled trade ...
Why does he have to be dead? You know he will sue and there is no better thing than free publicity...
That's why it's better for the book to come out after he's dead
his fucking brain is on life support now ...
Trump's kind of guy. Trump will probably appointment him to a position in his regime.
Thing is, G2, you are rightfully dead serious. Trump is indeed that corrupt.
Yes, he is.
too bad that rancid POS will probably die in office before he can be brought to trial, stripped of his wealth, humiliated in the media, and made to suffer for his crimes in protected epstein-like prison isolation.
Birds of a feather....that old chestnut.
... end up getting plucked together.
is there a specific karma term or phrase for scumbags that become victims of the same crime they've perpetrated on others in the past?
That would just be 'karma'.
how about poetic karma ...
Karma Karma ..Kind of like "Pizza! Pizza!"
the last time I was in toronto over 2 decades ago, it looked like little caesars and starbucks was on every corner.
with his previous drug lord pardon, trump signaled to his cult that he'll be escaping to honduras or venezuela. with this pardon, he's probably trying to establish a new currency for the new kingdom of trump, or magaland ...
Venezuela??? Don't they hate him there?
they're ripe for a hostile takeover, now that POS/POTUS has SCOTUS in his back pocket ...
I think he will go to Uganda. I hear they really like him there...
there's already a thumper army of LGBTQ killers there, on a mission, waiting to worship him ...
More likely El Salvador. They have their fascist dictator Bukele that Trump loves.
how much do you think that grift was worth to roger stone and trump in cash?
Pardoning the Honduran ex-President? Eight figures, at least. Probably nine. Not less than 50 million, for sure. That's the minimum rate for a 45 year sentence for a drug dealer responsible for the deaths of thousands of Americans. Trump doesn't come cheap.
... yeah, that guy was arrested as soon as he stepped off the plane. a boat trip was a bit too risky for him ...
I'll bet stone and trump took that guy for over $15 million combined to sell the pardon to him ...