Ex-wife of Savannah Chrisley's fiancé Jason Galanis praised scammer for saving injured hawk in desperate plea for prison leniency
A 2017 sentencing memorandum reveals that the ex-wife of fraudster Jason Galanis attempted to secure leniency for him by highlighting his history of animal rescue. The letter portrayed Galanis as a compassionate individual despite his criminal convictions.
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Make Page Six a Preferred Source The ex-wife of Jason Galanis, Savannah Chrisley’s fraudster fiancé , begged for him to receive a lenient prison sentence by painting him as an animal lover.
In a July 2017 sentencing memorandum obtained exclusively by Page Six, Galanis’ then-wife, Monet Berger, shared a story about how her then-husband once rescued an injured hawk as a way to vouch for his character.
“He also has a love of animals like no other,” Berger, 57, told the Manhattan federal judge overseeing Galanis’ fraud case.
“A few years ago, we were driving home from dinner, and he saw a hawk on the side of the road,” Berger wrote. “When we got home, he insisted on going back to see if it was injured.”
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