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Dec. 1, 2025, 11:38 AM ESTBy Rebecca ShabadWASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has commuted the seven-year sentence of former private equity CEO David Gentile, a White House official confirmed.Gentile was sentenced in May to seven years in prison on wire and security fraud charges. According to the Bureau of Prisons’ database, Gentile was not in its custody as of Nov. 26. The White House pardon czar, Alice Marie Johnson, also confirmed Gentile’s release in a post on X. Gentile was the CEO and co-founder of GPB Capital Holdings and was convicted by a federal jury in Aug. 2024 of conspiracy to commit securities fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, securities fraud and two counts of wire fraud. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, which brought the indictment during the Biden administration, said at the time that the “charges related to a years-long scheme to defraud more than 10,000 investors by misrepresenting the source of funds used to make monthly distribution payments and the amount of revenue generated by three of GPB’s investment funds.” Gentile was charged and convicted alongside Jeffry Schneider, the owner of a marketing firm, whom prosecutors said marketed GPB funds to investors. The White House official disputed the charges brought by the Biden DOJ. The official said GPB paid regular annualized distributions to its investors and in 2015, the company “disclosed to investors the possibility of using investor capital to pay some of these distributions rather than funding them from current operations.””Even though this was disclosed to investors the Biden Department of Justice claimed this was a Ponzi scheme,” the official said. “This claim was profoundly undercut by the fact that GPB had explicitly told investors what would happen. At trial, the government was unable to tie any supposedly fraudulent representations to Mr. Gentile. Mr. Gentile also raised serious concerns that the government had elicited false testimony and failed to correct such testimony.”Gentile’s attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment about his release. New York Attorney General Letitia James had also sued Gentile and other co-defendants in 2021 over the scheme. The attorney general’s office didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. Trump has granted pardons and other acts of clemency to hundreds of people since taking office in January, beginning with around 1,500 Jan. 6 defendants and including many people convicted of fraud since then. Last month, Trump pardoned billionaire crypto executive Changpeng Zhao, who founded the Binance crypto exchange. Zhao was sentenced to four months in prison after pleading guilty in a deal with the Justice Department for enabling money laundering at Binance.In April, Trump pardoned Paul Walczak, who was convicted on tax charges. Walczak’s mother contributed millions of dollars to Trump’s presidential campaign. In May, Trump pardoned and commuted the sentences of former reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley, who were convicted of fraud, tax evasion and conspiracy to defraud the United States. Also in May, he pardoned former New York GOP Rep. Michael Grimm, who was sentenced in 2015 to eight months for tax fraud.In October, Trump released former GOP Rep. George Santos from prison. Santos was serving a prison sentence of over seven years. on wire fraud and identity theft charges.Rebecca ShabadRebecca Shabad is a politics reporter for NBC News based in Washington.

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Dec. 1, 2025, 1:25 PM ESTBy Steve KopackShopify reported Monday that its platform was suffering from multiple service outages, as Cyber Monday sales kicked off. Some merchants that use Shopify’s service to sell goods online may experience an issue with checkouts through the company’s point-of-sale system, the company said on its status website.Businesses that run on Shopify could also have trouble logging into their administrative portals. In 2024, merchants using Shopify services recorded $11.5 billion in sales from Black Friday through Cyber Monday, the company said, with more than 76 million customers buying from businesses powered by the platform.Shopify provides website design tools, online checkout services and digital advertising products to businesses of all sizes. The company says that millions of merchants use its services. While Shopify’s share of Cyber Monday sales may be limited, smaller businesses that rely on the company to process their transactions could miss out on crucial sales at the start of the all-important holiday season.Total Cyber Monday sales are expected to be more than $53 billion, according to Salesforce. Shopify did not immediately return a request for comment.As of 1:25p.m. ET, Shopify shares were down 5%.Steve KopackSteve Kopack is a senior reporter at NBC News covering business and the economy.Brian Cheung contributed.

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