Former US President Joe Biden has granted de facto judicial immunity to five members of his family, saying he wanted to prevent them from becoming targets of "unfounded and politically motivated investigations", Reuters reported, BTA reported.
Among those granted immunity from prosecution are his two brothers James and Francis. The list also includes James' wife Sarah, Joe's sister Valerie, and her husband John.
In a statement, Biden also commuted the life sentence imposed on Native American rights activist Leonard Peltier, who spent nearly five decades in federal prison for the first-degree murder of two Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents in 1975. Peltier will serve the remainder of his sentence under house arrest, Reuters notes.