The Department of Justice requested that a federal judge set Devon Archer's prison sentence to begin sometime after his congressional testimony on Monday, shutting down Republican claims the department was attempting to interfere with the testimony.
The DOJ issued the request as a clarification to a notice it sent to Judge Ronnie Abrams of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York one day prior asking that Abrams set a date for Archer, Hunter Biden's former business partner, to report to jail for crimes on an unrelated matter."To be clear, the Government does not request that the defendant surrender before his Congressional testimony," the U.S.
The clarification came after Rep. Matt Gaetz accused the DOJ on social media of"actively committing the crime of obstructing a congressional investigation" because the department asked the judge to set a surrender date for Archer two days before he was set to appear for a highly anticipated testimony with the House Oversight and Reform Committee.
Archer was sentenced last year to serve a year in prison and pay nearly $44 million in restitution after he was found guilty of participating in a scheme to defraud a Native American tribe of bond proceeds worth tens of millions of dollars. Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer did not go as far as to accuse the DOJ of obstructing Archer's testimony but did call the timing of the department's request"odd."
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