U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday pardoned five members of his family, saying he wanted to prevent them from being targeted by "baseless and politically motivated investigations." Those pardoned are his two brothers James and Francis.

President Joe Biden issued preemptive pardons to high-profile Trump foes, including lawmakers who investigated the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

Ex-FBI informant Alexander Smirnov got six years in prison after pleading guilty to lying that Joe and Hunter Biden accepted $10 million in bribes.

President Biden issued a blanket pardon for his brother James Biden, effectively burying the final details of a more than five-year probe into the first family’s influence peddling to

Prosecutors are seeking a six-year prison term after Alexander Smirnov pleaded guilty to tax evasion and lying to the FBI. The allegations, proven false, claimed the Bidens each received $5 million from executives at Ukrainian energy company Burisma in exchange for political favors.

As he entered the Capitol to witness his successor take the oath of office, President Biden announced pardons for his younger brother, James Biden, and other family members.

Biden made it clear that his decision to preemptively pardon these individuals was no indication of any guilt on their part

A former FBI informant who fabricated a story about President Joe Biden and his son Hunter accepting bribes has been sentenced to six years in prison

A federal judge gave the former informant the highest possible sentence under his plea agreement with prosecutors in special counsel David Weiss's office.

President Joe Biden posthumously pardoned civil rights leader and Pan-Africanist Marcus Garvey, along with four others, and commuted two sentences.