DOJ Backs Down From Attempt To Jail Key Hunter Biden Witness Before House Testimony After Republican Claim of Obstruction

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Yesterday, I reported on the unprecedented action take by the Department of [in]Justice’s attempt to intimidate and silence a whistleblower by imprisoning him before he could testify. The ensuing brouhaha c0mpelled these thugs to back off.

Justice Department Appears To Back Off From Effort To Jail Key Hunter Biden Witness Before House Testimony After Republican Claim of Obstruction

A letter seeking the imprisonment of Devon Archer in an unrelated case was sent Saturday, two days before Archer’s scheduled testimony behind closed doors to the House Oversight Committee.

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By: Scott Norvell, The Epoch Times,  July 31, 2023:

The Department of Justice is backing off, at least for the moment, from what Republicans say was an attempt to “obstruct justice” by jailing an associate of Hunter Biden before he was scheduled to testify before the House Oversight Committee.

The DOJ had appeared to demand that Devon Archer, a key witness in the GOP’s ongoing investigation of the president’s son Hunter be sent to jail as soon as possible, according to a letter sent to a judge overseeing the witness’s case over the weekend.

The DOJ letter was sent two days before Archer’s scheduled testimony behind closed doors to the House Oversight Committee. Republicans on the committee immediately cried foul about the letter and described it as “odd” that such a letter was sent on a Saturday, outside of normal business hours at the Department of Justice.

Following the furor over Saturday’s letter, the Justice Department sent another letter to the judge Sunday evening requesting that Archer’s surrender to the Bureau of Prisons be set for a date after his congressional testimony. “To be clear, the Government does not request (and has never requested) that the defendant surrender before his Congressional testimony,” the Sunday letter stated.

Appearing on Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures, the Oversight committee’s chairman, James Comer, told host Maria Bartiromo that the letter could be construed as an attempt to intimidate his witness.

“I don’t know if this is a coincidence or if this is another example of the weaponization of the Department of Justice, but I can tell you this — the lengths to which the Biden legal team has gone to try and intimidate our witnesses, to coordinate with the Department of Justice and certainly coordinate with the Democrats on the House Oversight Committee, to encourage people to not cooperate with our investigation, to encourage banks not to turn over bank records, to encourage Treasury not to let us have access to those suspicious activity reports are very troubling and I believe that this is another violation of the law,” Mr. Comer said. “This is obstruction of justice.”

The Saturday letter relates to a 2018 conviction on two felony counts for attempting to defraud a Native American tribe in a $60 million bond deal. Archer, a longtime business partner of Hunter Biden, was sentenced in 2022, but his incarceration of up to one-year in prison has been delayed because of appeals.

Saturday, an assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, Negar Tekeei, wrote to the judge handling Archer’s case, Ronnie Abrams, asking her to set a date for him to report to prison. Days earlier, an appeals court finalized an order upholding his sentence. Archer’s lawyers argued following the appeals court decision that their client was considering further appeals and that serving the sentence would be premature.
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9 months ago

I M P E A C H B R A N D O N !!!!!!!!!!!!

Stephen Honig
Stephen Honig
9 months ago

There is only one political party with complete powerer in the country and it’s the DemoRats!

Last edited 9 months ago by armr145
TRM
TRM
9 months ago

If DOJ wanted to shut him up, they would have sent the letter to the judge long before Archer was due to talk.

Not that Archer said much that helped the Hunter Biden witch hunt.

Kathy Brown, Esq.D
Kathy Brown, Esq.
9 months ago
Reply to  TRM

Wrong.

The DOJ did this blitz-fashion because they knew they were in the wrong both at law and on the facts. Doing this earlier would have given the judge (and We-The-People) time to respond, exposing this scurrilous Motion. Then we could all go ballistic which we did, causing the DOJ to beat a hasty retreat.

Archer said plenty; he established all that needs to be shown: That Joe is in the loop and that Hunter can call upon him when necessary. Pay-to-play never means that the corrupt official gets on the phone and says, “Yes, I’m backing up this corrupt sleazeball all the way!”. That would be explicit.

But out of curiosity: Since you reject the only reasonable explanation for Biden being on speaker during his son’s wrongdoing, why would “The Big Guy” be reachable by his appalling son? And stay on the phone after Hunter identifies where he is and what doing?

Last edited 9 months ago by Kathy Brown, Esq.
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