(FixThisNation.com) – The House Judiciary Committee confirmed that the Federal Bureau of Prisons director will testify after a witness alleged he was retaliated against.
On Thursday, the House Judiciary Committee confirmed it would receive testimony from Direct Colette Peters after witness Jason Galanis alleged that he had been retaliated against to prevent him from testifying at President Joe Biden’s impeachment inquiry.
The hearing is scheduled for July 23.
Galanis, who testified about Hunter Biden’s business dealings, claimed that he had his home confinement denied under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act while in prison and alleged a bureau staff member sexually assaulted and harassed him.
In its request to Peters, the committee has asked the director to prepare herself to testify about Galanis’ claims about having his home confinement requests denied and respond to the harassment and sexual assault allegations.
Galanis is Hunter Biden’s former business partner. He had been involved in building the Burnham firm with Devon Archer.
Archer and Galanis were convicted in a tribal bonds fraud scheme, with the latter receiving an 189-month prison sentence.
Reporting by Just the News revealed that Galanis had his request for home confinement under the CARES Act denied by the Justice Department following Archer’s subpoena by the House Oversight Committee to testify in Biden’s impeachment inquiry.
According to the Committee, the DOJ informed Galanis they denied his home confinement appeal the day after the impeachment committees informed the bureau they would seek his testimony.
During his testimony in February, where he described being sexually assaulted and harassed by a prison staff member, Galanis suggested he had been “the victim of a pattern of retribution” by the DOJ to prevent his home confinement that would have given him “full and free access to congressional investigators.”
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