A request from the U.S. attorney's office has Hunter Biden's longtime business partner wrangling with the Justice Department before he's set to testify before closed doors in front of the House Oversight Committee.
Devon Archer is reportedly preparing to testify today that President Joe Biden met dozens of times with his son Hunter's business associates. (RELATED: Moderate Dem Discussing Possibility Of Challenging Biden)
However, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York wrote to District Judge Ronnie Abrams Saturday requesting her to schedule a date for Archer to report to prison for his one-year sentence for his role in a scheme to defraud a Native American tribe of roughly $60 million in bonds.
Politico has more on the ensuing fallout:
The court isn't expected to make a decision before Archer will meet behind closed doors with the House Oversight Committee, meaning that even if the court ultimately sides with the request Archer wouldn't have to report to prison before the meeting. And his attorney said in a statement that he will move forward with his planned appearance Monday.
A spokesperson for the office of United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York declined to comment on the filing or the timing of the letter. But according to the one-page letter, filed by assistant U.S. attorney Negar Tekeei, prosecutors had asked Archer's attorney to recommend a reporting date in light of the Second Circuit ruling but were rebuffed.
Archer's counsel, according to the DOJ letter, said it was “premature” to set a sentencing date because Archer was considering further appeals and intended to raise an “error” in the sentencing process. Archer's lawyer plans to file a response to the U.S. attorney's demands by Wednesday.
Matthew Schwartz, Archer's attorney, also rejected the notion that there's any connection between Archer's tiff with the Justice Department and his potentially imminent jail time.
In an interview with Fox's Maria Bartiromo Sunday, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) questioned the timing of DOJ's request but stopped short of embracing conspiracies.
Other GOP lawmakers explicitly accused the Justice Department of obstructing a congressional investigation and demanded members of Congress return to Washington, D.C., immediately.
Hours after Gaetz's tweet, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York issued a statement saying, “the Government does not request (and has never requested) that [Archer] surrender before his congressional testimony.”
Archer's testimony comes as Republicans look for definitive proof that the elder Biden used Hunter's domestic and international business dealings to enrich himself – and potentially to the detriment of U.S. interests. (RELATED: Jordan Releases Smoking-Gun Docs, Proving Facebook Censored Americans Under White House Pressure)
Archer's appearance on Capitol Hill comes after multiple delays.
Like Hunter, Archer was a former Burisma board member and a close friend for years.
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Well, is Archer in the hot seat yet? NOPE. Govt. doesn’t start its day until 10:00 which begins in about 17 minutes.
sounds like a Epstein episode will he make it out of prison to even testifie. or hang himself
Archer and all those other whistleblowers better watch their backs or they will have one of those “accidents” that seem to follow anyone that goes against the Biden and Clinton crime families.
This sounds exactly like what Garland has been doing since he became Beijing Joe’s personal cover-up man and attack dog. This SOB needs to be removed from office and charged with multiple crimes beyond blatant abuse of power.
I distinctly remember when Trump was elected that Piglousey and Schummer both immediately warned Trump not to try to use the DOJ as his personal police force. Wow, that is exactly what our criminal-in-chief has been doing for over 2 years now. Why wasn’t he warned like Trump was warned ?? Oh, that’s right Trump is a Republican and Joe is a demoncRAT communist.
god created his globalists and all his globalist puppets to create hell on earth for all good people; soros, chester biden crime family, zelensky crime family, demonrat criminal party, rino criminal party, criminal media, altar boy raping demonrat priests and all his CRIMINAL organizations; doj, fbi, cdc, irs, usps, cia, ss, tsa, fisa, fema, fda, fcc, un, nato etc .