Only hope for Hunter Biden’s best friend now is a presidential pardonOnly a presidential pardon will save Devon Archer from jail and financial ruin.
Hunter Biden’s ex-business partner and best friend was sentenced Monday to one year and one day in federal prison by Manhattan Judge Ronnie Abrams over a
scheme to defraud one of the poorest Native American tribes. He also was ordered to pay his share of $43 million in restitution to victims and more than $15 million in forfeiture.
Archer visited Joe Biden in the White House on April 16, 2014, a week before he joined the Burisma board, and posed for a photograph that would come to haunt the then-VP.
The photo was posted on the Burisma website the next day before it was removed at the request of Demetra Lambros, the VP’s Chief Counsel.
“Hey. Guys. There is apparently a photo of Devon and the VP on Burisma’s website,” wrote Hunter’s associate, Eric Schwerin,
in an email found on Hunter’s abandoned laptop.“
There is another way he could avoid jail —
if he were to cooperate with prosecutors investigating Hunter’s business dealings, they could recommend he serve no time.
But only a pardon would clear his multi-million-dollar debt.