Hunter Biden told friend and business partner Devon Archer they would ‘get the last laugh’ after Archer said a judge had thrown out his initial 2018 conviction.
In a November 2018 text, reviewed by Fox News Digital, Archer told Hunter Biden that the ‘judge threw out my conviction today’.
The President’s son replied: ‘Thank f*****g god! First good news in way too long my friend. I am so happy for you. I know its [sic] been a living hell but put it behind you now and take great steps forward.’
Archer was linked to the fraudulent issuance and sale of more than $60mn of tribal bonds, but a judge assessed at the time Archer failed to show he ‘knew that the bond issue was fraudulent, or that he received any personal benefit from it’.
The conviction was reinstated by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals a month before the 2020 election, and Archer was sentenced to a year and a day in prison in February 2022.
Archer is set to testify before lawmakers today, expected to talk about President Joe Biden’s interactions with Hunter’s business associates while he was vice president.
Text messages and emails between Devon Archer, Hunter Biden and dozens of business associates spanning a decade will feature as Archer goes before the House Oversight Committee to testify on his business dealings with Hunter.
Devon Archer and Christa Archer attend an event in New York City on September 9, 2010
House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chair James Comer (left) makes an opening statements as Republicans charge the Justice Department interfered with a yearslong investigation into Hunter Biden, during a hearing at the Capitol in Washington, July 19, 2023
House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chair James Comer yesterday called out the President’s Department of Justice for apparently acting out of the norm in an attempt to stop anyone from ‘cooperating’ with the House Oversight’s investigation into Hunter Biden.
The Southern District of New York received a letter on Saturday demanding it expedite its sentencing of Devon Archer, former business associate of Hunter, 53.
The demand referred to the unrelated fraud conviction.
Comer claimed the DOJ’s actions were an attempt to ‘intimidate’ witnesses key to getting to the bottom of the President’s son’s overseas business deals.
Comer said in an interview on Fox’s Sunday Morning Futures that it was unusual for the DOJ to send such a letter.
Hours later, the Justice Department issued a new letter saying they never intended to see Archer locked up before he testified to Congress.
Archer is expected to provide details that will challenge the White House’s insistence that Joe Biden never had any knowledge of or involvement in his wayward son’s business affairs.
A source close to Archer confirmed reports that he is set to testify about meetings he attended with his and Hunter’s foreign business partners, where the First Son allegedly had Joe Biden on speakerphone.
DailyMail.com reported exclusively this week that Archer is ‘in hiding’ after receiving ‘threats’ leading up to his bombshell testimony.
President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden walk from the beach to their motorcade in Rehoboth Beach, Del., Sunday, July 30, 2023, as Devon Archer prepares to testify
President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden, exits in J. Caleb Boggs Federal Building in Delaware, United States on July 26, 2023
A letter from the DOJ sent to District Judge Abrams requesting Archer ‘be ordered to surrender… to commence his term of imprisonment’, two days before he was set to testify
The White House has maintained the president was never ‘in business’ with his son, but the GOP have ramped up their investigation with testimonies from whistleblowers and a slew of other evidence.
Archer, 48, and Hunter both graduated from Yale and were friends for decades. Hunter has reportedly described Devon as his ‘best friend in business.’
Together they formed Rosemont Seneca Partners back in 2009, along with Christopher Heinz, the son-in-law of former Sen. John Kerry, kicking off a period of international business deals and jet-setting.
Archer and Hunter Biden each landed lucrative seats on the board of Ukrainian energy firm Burisma, despite Hunter not having particular expertise in the field.
The firm brought in a reported $11 million through the arrangement, based on information gleaned from Hunter’s infamous laptop.
