Hunter Biden Friend Testimony Ramps Up Investigation Into Presidential Family

By Casey Harper (The Heart Sq.)

Home Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., laid out a litany of recent proof within the ongoing investigation into an alleged Biden household “bribery scheme” Monday after interviewing one of many Biden household’s enterprise associates.

Comer interviewed Devon Archer, a long-time pal of Hunter Biden who attended Yale with him and has ties to the Ukrainian vitality firm Burisma. Hunter Biden served on the board of Burisma, which allegedly paid tens of millions of {dollars} to the Biden household as a part of a “bribery scheme.”

“Devon Archer’s testimony at the moment confirms Joe Biden lied to the American individuals when he mentioned he had no information about his son’s enterprise dealings and was not concerned. Joe Biden was ‘the model’ that his son offered around the globe to complement the Biden household,” Comer mentioned.

Most notably, Comer mentioned that Archer alleged that President Biden met with Hunter Biden’s enterprise companions greater than “20 occasions,” straight refuting the president’s earlier declare that he didn’t focus on the matter together with his son.

“When Joe Biden was Vice President of america, he joined Hunter Biden’s dinners together with his international enterprise associates in particular person or by speakerphone over 20 occasions,” Comer mentioned. “When Burisma’s proprietor was going through strain from the Ukrainian prosecutor investigating the corporate for corruption, Archer testified that Burisma executives requested Hunter to ‘name D.C.’ after a Burisma board assembly in Dubai.”

Biden has repeatedly dismissed questions on his involvement in any abroad offers of this type and Democrats have downplayed the seriousness of the investigation, together with Archer’s contribution.

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Comer’s feedback come after IRS whistleblowers testified earlier this month that the Biden household and its associates acquired about $17 million distributed to about 20 shell corporations from Chinese language, Romanian and Ukrainian entities.

The feedback got here after a four-hour transcribed interview behind closed doorways with Archer, who had beforehand canceled the interview however lastly went by means of with it Monday. Archer, who faces jail time for conspiracy to defraud a Native American tribe, declined to remark to reporters who questioned him as he arrived on Capitol Hill Monday.

Over the weekend, controversy erupted after the Division of Justice despatched a letter to a federal decide saying that Archer report back to jail to start his sentence.

Critics blasted the choice from the DOJ, saying it was politically motivated, although Archer didn’t echo that sentiment.

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The Home Oversight Committee launched a timeline of occasions Monday primarily based on Archer’s testimony and model of occasions.

From the Committee:

• Devon Archer testified that the worth of including Hunter Biden to Burisma’s board was “the model” and confirmed that then-Vice President Joe Biden was “the model.”
• Archer admitted that “Burisma would have gone out of enterprise if ‘the model’ had not been hooked up to it.” He believed that Hunter Biden being on the board and the Biden model contributed to Burisma’s longevity. Folks would have been intimidated to mess with Burisma legally due to the Biden model.
• In December 2015, Mykola Zlochevsky, the proprietor of Burisma, and Vadym Pozharski, an govt of Burisma, positioned fixed strain on Hunter Biden to get assist from D.C. concerning the Ukrainian prosecutor, Viktor Shokin. Shokin was investigating Burisma for corruption. Hunter Biden, together with Zlochevsky and Pozharski, “known as D.C.” to debate the matter. Biden, Zlochevsky, and Pozharski stepped away to make the decision. This raises considerations that Hunter Biden was in violation of the Overseas Brokers Registration Act.
• Devon Archer testified that Hunter Biden put then-Vice President Joe Biden on the speakerphone throughout enterprise conferences over 20 occasions. Archer testified that Joe Biden was placed on the telephone to promote “the model.” These telephone calls embrace a dinner in Paris with a French vitality firm and in China with Jonathan Li, the CEO of BHR.
• Archer acknowledged that then-Vice President Biden had espresso with Jonathan Li, the CEO of BHR, in Beijing. Then-Vice President Biden even wrote a letter of advice for school for Li’s daughter.
• Archer confirmed Joe Biden was known as “my man” by Hunter Biden.
• In spring of 2014, then-Vice President Biden attended a enterprise dinner together with his son, Hunter, and his associates at Café Milano in Washington, D.C. Elena Baturina, a Russian oligarch who’s the widow of the previous mayor of Moscow, attended the dinner. Notably, the Biden Administration’s public sanctions record for Russian oligarchs doesn’t include Baturina.

Syndicated with permission from The Center Square.