{"id":50608,"date":"2025-12-01T01:32:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T07:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=50608"},"modified":"2025-12-01T02:41:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T08:41:24","slug":"trump-commutes-prison-sentence-for-former-private-equity-executive-david-gentile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=50608","title":{"rendered":"Trump commutes prison sentence for former private equity executive David Gentile"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. &#8212;&nbsp;President&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a>&nbsp;has commuted the prison sentence of former investment manager David Gentile, who was convicted of defrauding investors \u2014 the latest in a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-pardon-justice-department-f9c5b82dfea0128a49c218fa7f1cbeac\">series of clemency actions<\/a>&nbsp;Trump has taken in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/pardons-trump-clemency-prisoners-donors-campaign-a81cb5e1115dd7f9e3df69cfb19c948b\">white-collar criminal cases<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">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 \u201cPonzi\u201d scheme in which new investments are used to reimburse previous investors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The government has agreed to no restitution in the criminal case, though various civil cases are handling repayments and damages to investors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/wireStory\/trump-commutes-prison-sentence-former-private-equity-executive-127985735\">abcnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. &#8212;&nbsp;President&nbsp;Donald Trump&nbsp;has commuted the prison sentence of former investment manager David Gentile, who was convicted of defrauding investors \u2014 the latest in a&nbsp;series of clemency actions&nbsp;Trump has taken in&nbsp;white-collar criminal cases. Gentile had reported to prison on Nov. 14, just days before Trump commuted his sentence, according to a White House official [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":50609,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[35486,3151,1230],"class_list":["post-50608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-gentile","tag-prison","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50610,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50608\/revisions\/50610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/50609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}