DOJ Denies Trying To Jail Hunter Biden Witness Before Tomorrow’s Testimony

Update (2030ET): The DOJ has responded to allegations that they need Hunter Biden witness Devon Archer arrested earlier than tomorrow’s testimony, saying in a press release:

“To be clear, the Government does not request (and has never requested) that the defendant surrender before his Congressional testimony,” reads a Sunday night time submitting. “For the avoidance of all doubt, the Government requests that any surrender date, should the Court order one, be scheduled to occur after the defendant’s Congressional testimony is completed.”

BREAKING: BIDEN DOJ BLINKS – FILES NEW LETTER ALLOWING DEVON ARCHER TO TESTIFY TOMORROW

They felt the stress pic.twitter.com/op8BHgFKGd

— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) July 31, 2023

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The Department of Justice is pushing a federal decide to jail former Hunter Biden witness Devon Archer simply days forward of his hotly anticipated congressional testimony, court docket paperwork reveal.

On Saturday, Manhattan federal prosecutors filed a letter asking a decide to set a date for Archer to start his one-year sentence in a fraud case which is unrelated to Hunter’s numerous scandals. The request got here lower than every week after the Second Court of Appeals upheld Archer’s 2018 conviction on two felony costs for his function in a conspiracy to defraud a Native American tribe.

Archer is scheduled to testify on Monday in entrance of the House Oversight Committee.

Here’s Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer on @MariaBartiromo #Sundaymorningfutures describing this letter as “obstruction of justice” and decrying “the lengths to which the Biden authorized group has gone to attempt to intimidate our witnesses, to coordinate with the DOJ and… https://t.co/8a25tsSOAQ

— Miranda Devine (@mirandadevine) July 30, 2023

As the NY Post notes;

Archer — who is ready to ship closed-door testimony to the House Oversight Committee on Monday about Biden — had been difficult the conviction.

His lawyer, Matthew Schwartz, mentioned he could be submitting a proper response to the request from the US Attorney’s Office by Wednesday — and famous that his shopper would nonetheless testify as deliberate regardless of allegations the DOJ letter was an intimidation tactic.

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Back in 2009, Archer, Biden, and Christopher Heinz co-founded funding and advisory agency Rosemont Seneca Partners, which the primary son used as a car for a lot of of his abroad enterprise endeavors.

Archer is anticipated to testify that Hunter Biden would dial-in his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden throughout numerous conferences with abroad companions, as The Post exclusively reported.

“We are aware of speculation that the Department of Justice’s weekend request to have Mr. Archer report to prison is an attempt by the Biden administration to intimidate him in advance of his meeting with the House Oversight Committee,” said Archer’s lawyer, Matthew Schwartz, including that his shopper will testify as deliberate regardless of allegations that the DOJ letter was an intimidation tactic.

“To be clear, Mr. Archer does not agree with that speculation,” Schwartz added. “In any case, Mr. Archer will do what he has planned to do all along, which is to show up on Monday and to honestly answer the questions that are put to him by the Congressional investigators.”

Blatant obstruction of a congressional investigation by the DOJ however the media ignores it. pic.twitter.com/MzzGk51XEi

— RedVirgo🔥Stacy 🔥 (@stacy_redvirgo) July 30, 2023

Devon Archer has simply been threatened 💥

“And I am receiving calls from the Southern District of New York from the U.S. Attorney himself.
My best friend in business Devon… has named me as a witness without telling me, in a Criminal case… and my Father without telling me.” pic.twitter.com/GL0NxV3kbo

— Joni Job (@jj_talking) July 30, 2023

This exhibits how scared they’re – which tells you they know they’re in actual bother – which tells you he’s responsible…. https://t.co/BzsXf7ZXrq

— Lara Logan (@laralogan) July 30, 2023