A hearing of the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday, July 11 provided confirmation that the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ director will submit testimony this month. Director Collette Peters had previously been the subject of allegations by a witness in an inquiry into the possibility of filing articles of impeachment against President Joe Biden. The witness had alleged that he had been retaliated against, and so would not testify in the matter.
A new hearing, now scheduled for the 23rd of July, will focus directly on the testimony of Director Peters. Jason Galganis, the witness who alleges she retaliated against him, says that he was targeted for statements made in his testimony about the business dealings of Hunter Biden, the son of the President.
Galanis said that despite being allowed home confinement under the terms of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, his request was denied, leading to him being held in a prison environment where he suffered harassment and intimate assault at the hands of a staff member of the Bureau of Prisons.
At the July 11 hearing, the Judiciary Committee directed Peters to prepare to testify about the dispensation of Galanis’s requests for home confinement, and to respond to Galanis’s allegations about the crimes committed against him by members of her staff.
Galanis was formerly the business partner of Hunter Biden. He and Devon Archer worked with Hunter Biden on building up the Burnham firm. Both Galanis and Archer were convicted on charges of fraud in the matter of tribal bonds. Galanis himself was received a 189 month prison sentence.
The Department of Justice denied Galanis’s requests to be transferred to home confinement under the terms of the CARES act after Archer was subpoenaed to testify in the impeachment inquiry by the House Oversight Committee. Galanis was notified that his request had been denied the day after he was notified that the impeachment committees wanted to interview him.
