Posted on 02/28/2022 10:21:37 PM PST by bitt
A former business partner of Hunter Biden was sentenced Monday to more than a year in prison for his role in a scheme to defraud a Native American tribe of some $60 million in bonds.
The defendant, Devon Archer, was sentenced to one year and one day in federal prison by Manhattan Judge Ronnie Abrams, who said the crime was “too serious” to let him just walk.
“There’s no dispute about the harm caused to real people,” Abrams said, noting that the defrauded tribe, the Oglala Sioux, is one of the poorest in the nation.
Archer will also have to pay more than $15 million in forfeiture by himself and more than $43 million in restitution with his co-defendants in the case.
The convicted fraudster has maintained his innocence and intends to appeal the conviction and sentence, his attorney, Matthew Schwartz, said in court Monday.
In brief statements to Abrams just before Archer was sentenced, he and Schwartz claimed he was taken advantage of by corrupt businessmen who wanted to use him in the scheme.
“He came under the influence of a person he trusted too much and didn’t ask enough questions,” Schwartz said.
Archer, his voice quivering at times, said it was “nothing less than surreal” that he had been convicted and was facing a prison sentence Monday.
“I was doing too many things at once and not paying enough attention,” Archer said of his involvement in the fraud.
“I have deep remorse for the victims of the crime,” he said, adding that he was also distraught about the pain he had caused his friends and family.
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Not good enough. I want Hunter ‘inconveninced’ with an incarceration. I know, I know. It will happen right after the Dogcather throws a butterfly net over Hillary and hauls her kicking and screaming down to Gitmo for an extended stay.
But I can still dream, right?
One year and one day in federal prison for $60 million theft?
It would have been far worse for him if he had been near the IS Capitol on January 6th!
BTTT
Sure would be nice if he started singing.
Devon Archer didn’t hang himself.
Slap on the wrist plus that money is in all probability, never getting paid back.
There is bound to be a corrupt Oglala Sioux official involved too, hope they get him for helping defraud his tribe.
This man is/was also on the board of Burisma with Hunter, as I recall.
Steals $60 million and only gets 1 year in jail.
Back in the Red Cloud days, the Sioux or Lakota were not someone that you messed with.
Devon Archer didn't kill himself.
Just sayin'.
I was also reminded last night that it likely obama put a puppet into ukraine in 2014. If Soros and the globalists are for something, shouldnt you at least pause and think.
The dems were about to get wiped out in the midterms with gas prices, but now they have Russia, Russia, Russia..
Samexplaybook as covid.. a preplanned crisis to retain control and power.
He doesn’t want to become fish food. 😀🙃
A pal of Hunter is NOT a pal of mine.
Typical everyone around the culprit gets investigated and the janitor or maid spends time in prison not the actual criminal
In other words, he’s really really sorry.
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