Hunter Biden’s former business partner filed an appeal against his criminal conviction for his alleged role in defrauding a Native American tribe, but the Supreme Court denied it on Monday.
Alongside Hunter Biden, Devon Archer was a board member of the Ukrainian energy company Burisma. Devon Archer had previously lost an appeal at the high court. After a jury found Archer guilty, a federal judge sentenced him to prison in 2018 for allegedly defrauding the tribe by issuing $60 million in tribal bonds in fraud.
Reuters reports that U.S. District Judge Ronnie Abrams in Manhattan overturned his conviction in late 2018 after becoming “unwaveringly concerned that Archer is innocent of the crimes charged.”
Hunter is connected to almost twenty current and former federal officials, including house probers and federal charges.
A month before the 2020 election, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Archer’s conviction, and in February 2022, he was sentenced to one year and one day in prison.
Despite the punishment, Archer’s attorney, Matthew Schwartz, has defended his client’s innocence and stated that they plan to file several appeals, which has caused Archer’s sentence to be served later.
“Mr. Archer plans to file an appeal because he is clearly unhappy with the sentence he received today. It is regrettable that the judge felt she was compelled to refrain from acting on her independent evaluation of the evidence, as she has previously expressed concern that Mr. Archer is innocent of the charges brought against him and reaffirmed that belief today.
In connection with the tribal entity’s bond issuance and subsequent sale through “fraudulent and deceptive means,” Archer is accused of defrauding several investment advisory clients and a Native American tribal entity of tens of millions of dollars, which is the root of the ordeal, according to the Department of Justice.
Hunter Biden was not a part of the plot.
BIDEN’S HUNT FOR DEVON ARCHER A “LAST LAUGH” WOULD OCCUR AFTER CONVICTION WAS THROWN OUT: “MOTHERF—ERS”
The evidence against Archer did not demonstrate that he “knew that the bond issue was fraudulent, or that he received any personal benefit from it,” according to a previous ruling by Abrams, as reported by Reuters. She would later assert in 2022, though, that Archer should not serve any prison time because the alleged crime was “too serious” and that “there’s no dispute about the harm caused to real people.”
An inquiry for comment from Fox News Digital was not immediately answered by Archer’s lawyer, Schwartz.
