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Podcaster Savannah Chrisley is engaged to a man who — like her reality TV star parents Todd and Julie — had his prison sentence commuted by Donald Trump, according to reports.
Savannah, 29, announced her engagement and pregnancy news Monday morning in an Instagram post, identifying her mystery man only as “J.” On her podcast, Unlocked, she identified him as Jason.
But now, TMZ reports that “J” is short for Jason Galanis, a convicted criminal who was serving a 14-year prison sentence for conspiracy to commit securities fraud, securities fraud, and investment adviser fraud in addition to other crimes. His sentence was commuted by Trump in March 2025, just weeks before Savannah’s parents were released from jail in May of that year thanks to the president.
Savannah shared on her podcast that she met Galanis while working to secure pardons for her parents.
Galanis, whose father, John Galanis, was a target of then New York U.S. attorney Rudy Giuliani’s crime crackdown back in the 1980s, was a business partner of Devon Archer – the former business associate of Hunter Biden who was also convicted of fraud for convincing a Native American tribe to issue economic development bonds, then diverting the proceeds for his own personal use.
The scheme for which Archer was convicted is also partly why Galanis was in prison, with prosecutors describing him in court documents as the “mastermind” of the fraud.
Galanis was previously convicted of participating in a market manipulation and fraud scheme in which he also evaded a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) order prohibiting him from serving as an officer or executive at publicly traded companies.
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