One of Hunter Biden’s buddies, Devon Archer, has been able to avoid his scheduled stay in prison for securities fraud even though the jury convicted him almost four years ago. The sand in his hourglass finally ran out.
Archer off to prison
The trial judge sided with federal prosecutors on Monday, March 14. A long time ago, Hunter Biden’s former business partner was sentenced to “one year and one day in prison.” Archer sat alongside Hunter on the board of Burisma and now he’ll sit in a cell with some guy named Bubba.
His lawyers have been whining that paying back the 43 million he stole from the Oglala Sioux Indian tribe, plus another $15 million in penalties, is punishment enough. The judge didn’t buy it.
Archer’s lawyers have been dragging their feet and doing everything they could to delay the inevitable. They’re trying to “appeal and postpone his sentence, arguing that Archer’s sentence and monetary penalties are too harsh since he might not have known the full extent of the crime.”
Prison is too good for him, prosecution lawyers counter. Along with two co-defendants, the jury said they knew what they were doing. The defendants used “a bond scheme to defraud an impoverished American Indian tribe of $60 million.”
U.S. Attorney’s Office in Manhattan, however, told the court on Monday that Archer’s team of attorneys don’t have a legal leg to stand on.
“Archer falls far short of meeting his burden of establishing the necessary ‘substantial question of law or fact‘ to justify bail pending appeal or a stay of forfeiture.” Put him in prison and do it now, they plead.
In it to his eyeballs
According to the prosecutors, Archer can’t play dumb to avoid prison now. He knew exactly how worthless the bonds were when he used “his own money to buy $15 million worth.”
It was all part of the scheme to make “varied lies to banks.” Archer lied to his own corporate board, too. You can’t know part of deal is a scam without knowing the rest of it is a scam too.
“It would make no sense to find that he knew about only one aspect of the scheme,” the prosecutors insist. “Archer’s guilt having already been proven beyond a reasonable doubt, the Court was then bound by the evidence – not the jury’s verdict – to find that the entirety of the scheme was foreseeable to Archer.”
In other words, lock him up in prison, soon. “In short, the defendant’s motion for a stay should be denied.”
Besides Burisma, Archer and Hunter Biden were managing partners at Rosemont Seneca. They used to hang out with John Kerry’s step-son Christopher Heinz.
After they get Archer safely in prison, the American people are already convinced that there is more than enough evidence to lock Hunter Biden right up along with him. The only problem is that the FBI won’t actually investigate him.
