Hunter Biden investigation: Former Burisma board member to sit for transcribed interview next week
Reese Gorman
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Devon Archer, a former Burisma board member and business partner of Hunter Biden, will sit for a transcribed interview before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee on Monday, July 31, a committee spokesperson told the Washington Examiner.
Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) issued a subpoena in June for Archer to appear for a deposition as part of the committee’s investigation into the Biden family’s finances, with an original deadline of June 16. Archer missed that deadline and canceled a scheduled deposition before the committee a total of three times.
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Comer said he wants Archer to testify because the committee believes Archer possesses “information relevant to its investigation.”
“Mr. Archer’s testimony is critical to the Committee’s investigation. Mr. Archer was Hunter Biden’s business partner in a number of transactions involving foreign nationals and foreign companies,” Comer told Archer’s lawyer in a letter. “Mr. Archer is associated with corporate entities that the Committee has identified and the Biden family’s role in each of them. Furthermore, he has significant information regarding the purpose of these companies and knowledge of relevant documents related to the Committee’s investigation.”
Prior to both men joining the board of the Ukrainian energy company Burisma in 2014, Archer and Hunter Biden worked alongside each other at the Rosemont Seneca Partners investment firm.
Archer was convicted in connection to a fraudulent bond scheme involving a Native American tribe in 2018 and was later sentenced to over a year in prison in 2022.
Archer is believed to have information relating to the foreign bribery scheme involving Hunter Biden, then Vice President Joe Biden, and Mykola Zlochevsky, the head of Burisma. According to an FBI-generated FD-1023 tip sheet released by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) last week, Zlochevsky paid both Biden’s $5 million to pressure the Ukrainian government to fire prosecutor Viktor Shokin who was allegedly investigating Burisma.
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According to the document, Zlochevsky told a paid FBI informant that “it costs 5 (million) to pay one Biden, and 5 [million] to another Biden.”
Comer and the Oversight Committee have been investigating the allegations made in the document and hope that Archer will provide insight into not only the foreign bribery allegations but also the Biden family’s foreign business dealings as a whole.