2 Days Before Congressional Testimony, DOJ Asks Judge to Set Prison Date for Key Hunter Biden Associate

Republicans say the move amounts to intimidation of the key witness in the House Oversight probe

Hunter Biden leaves the J. Caleb Boggs Federal Building in Wilmington, Del., on July 26, 2023. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times

The Department of Justice (DOJ) on July 29 issued a letter to the southern district of New York seeking the imprisonment of Devon Archer, a business associate of Hunter Biden’s set to testify to Congress in the coming days.

Mr. Archer, a longtime associate of Mr. Biden’s, was sentenced in February 2022 to serve a sentence of one year and one day in a scheme involving the fraudulent sale of $60 million worth of tribal bonds. However, since then, Mr. Archer has been free as he awaits news on the date when he'll need to turn himself over to authorities to serve out his sentence.