WASHINGTON – The former business partner of Hunter Biden’s first son, Devon Archer, asked a federal judge on Wednesday to shorten his one-year sentence for defrauding a Native American tribe – citing errors in his initial calculations and his cooperation in the first family warrant investigation. further reduction of the penalty.
Archer worked closely with Hunter, 54, on foreign business affairs during Joe Biden’s vice-presidential tenure and gave explosive testimony to the House Oversight Committee in July implicating now-President Biden in many of his son’s foreign dealings.
“Before setting a reporting date for Mr. Archer, we respectfully request that the Court reinstate the undisputed Guidelines miscalculations from his sentence, grant him habeas relief, and proceed with the resentencing,” Archer’s attorney Matthew Schwartz wrote to Manhattan federal Judge Ronnie Abrams, cited an “undisputed … two-level reduction” due to the fact that Archer played a “minor role” in the uncharged conduct.
The filing added that Archer, a 58-year-old father of three, had performed a “great civic duty” by turning state evidence in the Biden family’s alleged corruption probe.
Hunter Biden’s former business partner Devon Archer gave explosive testimony to Congress in July. AP
“For the above reasons, Mr. Archer respectfully requests that the Court grant Mr. Archer habeas, vacated his sentence, and proceeded with the immediate resentencing hearing after giving the parties an opportunity to submit additional sentencing memoranda that would allow the Court to take it into account. Mr. Archer’s situation has changed since Mr. Archer’s sentencing on February 28, 2022,” Schwartz added.
“This updated submission is necessary to address the substantial civic duties that Mr. Archer has performed in the two years since his previous sentencing, including Mr. Archer’s extensive cooperation with federal investigators, ongoing fundraising for various non-profit organizations, and support that continues for the equation. youth sports opportunities.
“Among other things, Mr. Archer met with prosecutors from the District of Delaware and Chief Justice and testified before a grand jury there in connection with the Hunter Biden investigation (and may be called as a witness in Mr. Biden’s ongoing prosecution, should it proceed to trial), and he also voluntarily testified before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee about its investigation into the Biden family’s domestic and foreign business dealings.
Devon Archer was Hunter Biden’s “close business associate” during most of Joe Biden’s time as vice president. The Thornton Group
Schwartz concluded: “The court should consider, in any retrial, Mr. Archer’s changed circumstances and continued and honest participation with various government investigations, as well as his ongoing commitment to charitable and educational causes, and of course his impeccable record on pretrial. issued in a period of almost eight years.”
A federal jury convicted Archer of two counts in June 2018 for participating in the sale of more than $60 million in fraudulent bonds for an Oglala Sioux tribal entity in South Dakota. In addition to the prison time, Archer was ordered to forfeit $15.7 million and pay restitution of $43.4 million.
Archer and two other Burnham Financial Group executives were convicted by a jury of conspiracy to commit securities fraud and securities fraud. Hunter Biden was Burnham’s vice chairman and earned up to $200,000, but was not charged in the scheme.
Archer’s conviction was overturned in November 2018 by Abrams, who ruled there was insufficient evidence against him while upholding the convictions of his two co-defendants. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated Archer’s conviction in 2020.
Archer last year revealed a wealth of information about President Biden’s alleged role in his family’s foreign affairs that contradicted the commander-in-chief’s frequent claims that he was not involved in the affairs of Hunter or first brother James Biden.
Among other evidence, Archer released a letter he received from Joe Biden in 2011 thanking him for attending the Chinese state luncheon in Washington and expressing satisfaction that Archer was starting a business with his son.
Archer also testified to Congress that he was aware of Joe Biden using speakerphone for about 20 of Hunter’s foreign business meetings.
Archer reveals new details about President Biden’s involvement with his family’s foreign business connections. FOX News/Tucker Carlson Tonight
Archer also said Joe Biden had coffee with Chinese government-linked businessman Jonathan Li during the vice president’s official visit to Beijing in December 2013. The previous interaction was reported as a quick handshake.
Hunter Biden, who accompanied his father on the 2013 trip, launched a Beijing-backed investment fund BHR Partners with Li as CEO just 12 days after arriving in China, the Wall Street Journal reported. Hunter held a 10% stake in the company through at least part of his father’s first year as president.
Joe Biden greeted Li by phone during Hunter’s next visit to China, Archer said — in addition to writing college recommendation letters for Li’s two children.
Joe Biden, as Vice President, also attended two separate dinners at DC’s Cafe Milano — in 2014 and 2015 — with his son’s Kazakhstani, Russian and Ukrainian clients, Archer said. Only one of those meetings was known before Archer’s testimony and the witness dismissed claims that Joe Biden only appeared briefly.
Dinner guests included former Moscow first lady Yelena Baturina, who transferred $3.5 million to a Hunter Biden-related entity in early 2014 and separately invested $100 million with Archer’s Rosemont Realty, with which Hunter Biden was also briefly associated.
Kazakh businessman Kenes Rakishev, who bought his second son a $142,000 sports car at the time, also had dinner with Joe Biden and posed for pictures with him.
Joe and Hunter Biden pose with Kenes Rakishev and Karim Massimov at DC’s Cafe Milano, where Archer testified the two-time VP hobnobs with his son’s overseas partner. KIAR
Vadym Pozharsky, a board adviser to Ukrainian gas company Burisma, which paid Hunter up to $1 million a year starting in 2014 when his father assumed control of US policy toward Ukraine, wrote Hunter an email the day after the 2015 dinner thanking him for the opportunity to meet his father.
Archer further revealed that Hunter Biden left a gathering at the Four Seasons in Dubai in December 2015 to “call DC” with Burisma owners Mykola Zlochevsky and Pozharsky – just before the vice president suddenly threatened to deny a $1 billion US loan guarantee to Kyiv as leverage to force removal of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Viktor Shokin.
A paid FBI informant reported that Zlochevsky said in 2016 he had to pay $10 million in bribes to the Biden family in exchange for help with Shokin’s removal.
Archer testified that he had no knowledge of Burisma executives wanting to oust Shokin and no knowledge of the bribery allegations, but speculated that Zlochevsky was referring to the estimated sums paid to himself and Hunter while they were on the board.
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Archer’s testimony to Congress prompted Republicans to launch a formal impeachment inquiry in September, which has forced additional testimony from other participants in the Biden family’s affairs — including associate Rob Walker, who distributed proceeds to Hunter and James Biden from ties to a convicted Romanian businessman. with corruption and CEFC China Energy linked to the defunct Chinese government.
Walker testified last month that Joe Biden met with CEFC Chairman Ye Jianming in Washington in or around March 2017 and that the transfer of about $1 million that month to Hunter and James Biden was compensation for working with the company during the Obama-Biden administration, according to to Republicans familiar with his testimony.
CEFC, a prominent mover in Beijing’s “Belt and Road” foreign influence campaign, later that year transferred $5.1 million to accounts linked to the Biden family in 10 days for threatening text messages in which Hunter warned a China-based associate that he was “sitting ” here with my father” and warned of reprisals if business agreements were not fulfilled.
Hunter Biden is scheduled to stand trial in Los Angeles starting June 20 for allegedly failing to pay at least $1.4 million in taxes between 2016 and 2019 on foreign income. He faces separate federal firearms charges in Delaware after exiting in July a plea deal only in a trial over a lawsuit for immunity for past conduct, including alleged violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act, which could implicate his father.
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