Devon Archer, a former business associate of Hunter Biden, has been served with a subpoena from the House Oversight Committee, which requests that he take a deposition this week.
The announcement comes as the committee's probe into the commercial affairs of the Biden family is still ongoing. The committee was eventually given access to an FBI memo last week that reportedly describes a quid pro quo plan in which the former vice president Biden was allegedly paid $5 million in exchange for firing a prosecutor. Viktor Shokin, the prosecutor, was looking into Ukrainian gas firm Burisma, where the president's son, Hunter, had a board seat despite being unqualified.
The focus of House Republicans on Monday was Devon Archer, who co-founded Rosemont Senaca Partners with Hunter Biden and later joined the president's son on the Burisma board. In a letter to Archer's lawyer, House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) said that Archer "had a key role in the Biden family's commercial ventures abroad, including but not limited to China, Russia, and Ukraine."
Additionally, while working on these projects with the Biden family, your client had meetings with the vice president at the White House, according to Comer.
As of 2014, it is commonly thought that Archer assisted Hunter Biden in getting a seat on the Burisma board of directors when his father was serving as vice president.
One week prior to his father's departure to Ukraine as vice president, Hunter Biden mentioned "my guys impending travels" in an email to Archer dated April 13, 2014. The New York Post said that the email was "unusually complex, citing 22 points on the political situation in Ukraine, with comprehensive analysis of the impending election and forecasting an escalation of Russia's 'destabilization campaign'."
According to the DOJ, Archer was found guilty in 2018 of cheating a Native American tribal organization and other investors out of tens of millions of dollars through a bond-selling scam. Later that year, a federal appeals court reversed his conviction and then restored it. Archer is still awaiting punishment after losing an appeal of that judgment earlier this month.
The announcement comes as the committee's probe into the commercial affairs of the Biden family is still ongoing. The committee was eventually given access to an FBI memo last week that reportedly describes a quid pro quo plan in which the former vice president Biden was allegedly paid $5 million in exchange for firing a prosecutor. Viktor Shokin, the prosecutor, was looking into Ukrainian gas firm Burisma, where the president's son, Hunter, had a board seat despite being unqualified.
The focus of House Republicans on Monday was Devon Archer, who co-founded Rosemont Senaca Partners with Hunter Biden and later joined the president's son on the Burisma board. In a letter to Archer's lawyer, House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) said that Archer "had a key role in the Biden family's commercial ventures abroad, including but not limited to China, Russia, and Ukraine."
Additionally, while working on these projects with the Biden family, your client had meetings with the vice president at the White House, according to Comer.
As of 2014, it is commonly thought that Archer assisted Hunter Biden in getting a seat on the Burisma board of directors when his father was serving as vice president.
One week prior to his father's departure to Ukraine as vice president, Hunter Biden mentioned "my guys impending travels" in an email to Archer dated April 13, 2014. The New York Post said that the email was "unusually complex, citing 22 points on the political situation in Ukraine, with comprehensive analysis of the impending election and forecasting an escalation of Russia's 'destabilization campaign'."
According to the DOJ, Archer was found guilty in 2018 of cheating a Native American tribal organization and other investors out of tens of millions of dollars through a bond-selling scam. Later that year, a federal appeals court reversed his conviction and then restored it. Archer is still awaiting punishment after losing an appeal of that judgment earlier this month.
