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Court reinstates fraud conviction for Hunter Biden business partner
Politico ^ | 10/08/2020 | BEN SCHRECKINGER

Posted on 10/08/2020 5:26:17 PM PDT by SJackson

Devon Archer was convicted of defrauding the Oglala Sioux Indian tribe out of bond-sale proceeds.


Hunter Biden was not implicated in the scheme, which defrauded the Oglala Sioux Indian tribe out of the proceeds of bond sales. | Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File/AP Photo

A federal appeals court reinstated the fraud conviction of Hunter Biden’s former business partner on Wednesday, reversing a lower court judge who had granted his request for a retrial.

Hunter Biden was not implicated in the scheme, which defrauded the Oglala Sioux Indian tribe out of the proceeds of bond sales. But the scheme was committed under the auspices of a broader business venture in which Hunter Biden was involved, and the perpetrators invoked his name to bolster their legitimacy, according to testimony and a consultant’s slide presentation presented at trial. A lawyer for Hunter Biden has said his name was invoked without his knowledge and that he cut ties with the perpetrators when he learned of their misconduct.

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Devon Archer, whose conviction was reinstated by Wednesday’s ruling, had partnered with Hunter Biden in Rosemont Seneca, a Washington-based investment firm. Starting in 2014, the pair served together on the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian natural gas company accused of corruption, at the same time that his father oversaw U.S. policy towards Ukraine. Hunter Biden has called his decision to take the board seat “a mistake,” while Joe Biden has defended the decision, saying, “my son did nothing wrong.”

A lawyer for Archer, Matthew Schwartz, decried the ruling by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. “As the experienced federal judge who presided over Mr. Archer’s month-long trial determined, he ‘lacked the requisite intent and is thus innocent of the crimes charged,’” Schwartz said. “Today’s ruling, which second-guesses that judge’s decision without having sat through the evidence and listened to the witnesses, is beyond disappointing.”

Archer was convicted in June 2018 of securities fraud and conspiracy to commit securities fraud, but five months later, trial Judge Ronnie Abrams of the Southern District of New York overturned the conviction.

In its ruling, the Second Circuit wrote that the District Court “abused its discretion” in overturning the jury’s verdict.


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1 posted on 10/08/2020 5:26:17 PM PDT by SJackson
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To: SJackson
He knew nothing about it, he was busy in the Ukraine. /sarcasm

Open to correction, but the Oglala Sioux, a well known tribe, aren't particularly prosperous in the casino industry. His partner could have found a better target. Then again, could have been left to tribal justice. If someone like this is found guilty in a tribal court, where do they do their time?

2 posted on 10/08/2020 5:29:06 PM PDT by SJackson (Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself, M Twaini)
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To: SJackson

Stealing from the Indians? What a scumbag.


3 posted on 10/08/2020 5:29:20 PM PDT by dsc (Do not pray for easy lives; pray to be stronger men.)
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To: SJackson

Conservatives on Thursday made it clear they felt Humpher Biden was at least in part to blame for a scheme which defrauded the Oglala Sioux Indian tribe out of the proceeds of bond sales, citing the the vice-president’s son’s addiction to hookers and blow that has often found a need to support itself by outrageous grifts all over the world, using Daddy’s pull among other Swamp corruptocrats.


4 posted on 10/08/2020 5:32:32 PM PDT by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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To: SJackson

“””If someone like this is found guilty in a tribal court, where do they do their time? “”””

On the bottom of a lake.


5 posted on 10/08/2020 5:33:07 PM PDT by shelterguy
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To: SJackson

I’m doing free-form blaming, modelled on the Democrats’ latest stunt with the Michigan anarchist arrests.


6 posted on 10/08/2020 5:34:01 PM PDT by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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To: kiryandil

Not condoning it, but I understand the unhealthy need for drugs. But honestly, he’s a nice looking guy, son of at various times a Senator and Vice President. I have the same lack of understanding for many celebrities and rich. Hookers? Strippers? Not to cast dispersion on either based on profession, but if you’re the pretty well off son of a prominent Senator, you can’t find companionship? What’s that song, Looking for Love in all the Wrong Places.


7 posted on 10/08/2020 5:40:09 PM PDT by SJackson (Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself, M Twaini)
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To: SJackson

How about the Biden? He skates?


8 posted on 10/08/2020 5:44:08 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: SJackson

9 posted on 10/08/2020 5:48:16 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: SJackson

Sounds like something similar to what Abramoff, Norquist, and Reed were involved in.


10 posted on 10/08/2020 5:50:34 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: SJackson

The Bidens are pond scum—all of them.

Trouble is, my part-Indian friend told me, Indians always vote Democrat because they are told they’ll lose their benefits if they don’t. What do they do with their benefits? When they reach 18, they are given $35,000 by the US government. The guys buy trucks and beer with their benefits, live in squalor. It’s a disgrace.

Our Republican Women’s Club advocated for giving them $35,000 in college tuition payments so they could learn trades and other useful things. Big BOO HISS from the tribes.


11 posted on 10/08/2020 5:59:20 PM PDT by Veto! (Political Correctness Offends Me)
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” where do they do their time? “

Probably in a very remote place-wrapped and tied tightly in a green cowhide and staked out on the ground in the hot Summer sun...


12 posted on 10/08/2020 5:59:36 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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Doc's from Ukrainian Prosecutor’s Office Reveal MILLIONS Funneled to Hunter Biden and Kerry Family 11/14/2019, 12:05:12 AM · by tired&retired · 58 replies Gateway Pundit ^ According to counter intelligence in Latvia around $4 million was obtained by Burisma Holdings Limited which was then transferred to Hunter Biden and Devon Archer – This describes the money transfer of $14,655,982 and $366,015 EUR from “Wirelogic Technology AS”, and $1,964,375 from “Digitex Organization LLP”. Further, part of the sums described above were transferred to Alan Apter, Alexander Kwasniewski, Devon Archer and Hunter Biden. Burisma Holdings then sent $3.5 million via Morgan Stanley to Hunter Biden and the John Kerry family – Rosemont Seneca Bohai LLC is owned and operated by Devon Archer, the Kerry Family including John Kerry...

John Kerry’s son cut business ties with Hunter Biden over Ukrainian oil deal 9/22/2019, 3:58:04 AM · by Rabin · 16 replies washington examiner ^ | August 27, 2019 | Alana Goodman In 2011, (Hunter, a collage friend John Glanis, a/k/a “Yanni,” Devon Archer, and Chris Heinz (stepson of SoS (Hero of tue Mekong, John Kerry), had formed a $2.4 billion private equity firm, Rosemont Seneca Partners. RSP, joined C0m China, just hours before Hunter’s dad, would meet with Hu Jintao, then China's president, in a “nuclear security” summit. 2014, Hunter and Yanni, joined the board of Burisma Holdings, joined Zlochevsky’s Ukrainian gas and UK money laundering. Chris Heinz wanted a full share, but lacking area value, was told “no”. Chris snivvles to stepsi, after his long time partners, cut a deal...

Vanity: Biden, Kerry, Heinz, and Archer China Timeline 9/28/2019, 10:42:31 PM · by TigerClaws · 33 replies VANITY This is making the round on the net: I’ve spent the past few nights in never ending rabbit holes on US, China, and Ukraine relations over the past 10 years..I’ve took what I believe is the most critical and important information and structured this timeline, from 2009 until Biden’s decision to run for president. 2009 Hunter Biden (son of Vice President Joe Biden) and Chris Heinz (stepson of Secretary of State John Kerry) create Rosemont Capital, an international investment firm with the help of Devon Archer, a businessman and close friend of Heinz. Rosemont would eventually expand and adding two...

Senate Finance Committee Probes Biden-Linked, Chinese Military-Boosting Tech Sale 8/17/2019, 12:17:58 PM · by bitt · 12 replies Breitbart ^ | 8/15/2019 | Haris Alic The Senate Finance Committee is probing the Obama administration’s 2015 decision to approve the sale of a U.S. company with insight into “military applications” to the Chinese government and an investment firm run by former Vice President Joe Biden’s youngest son, Hunter Biden. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), the committee’s chairman, sent a letter to the Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin on Thursday requesting documents relating to the sale of Henniges, a Michigan-based automotive company, to Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) and Bohai Harvest RST (BHR). The latter was formed in 2013 by a merger between a subsidiary of the Bank...

Hunter Biden’s China Deal Partners Include Mobster Whitey Bulger’s Nephew, John Kerry’s Stepson 5/13/2019, 5:15:52 PM · by Red Badger · 27 replies Freebeacon.com ^ | May 13, 2019 2:45 pm | Brent Scher Former vice president Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden partnered with infamous mobster Whitey Bulger's nephew and former secretary of state John Kerry's stepson for his lucrative business deal with the Bank of China, according to reporter Peter Schweizer's latest book. Schweizer points to the business deal with state-owned Bank of China, a $1.5 billion private equity investment, as a possible reason why the current presidential candidate has adopted a conciliatory attitude toward China. The lucrative deal between the Bank of China and Hunter Biden's company was inked in 2013 just weeks after Joe Biden brought his son along on an...

13 posted on 10/08/2020 6:04:28 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: dsc

>>>Stealing from the Indians<<<

Isn’t that what Democrats do? Joe Biden and Arlene Spector would probably say that ‘Stare decisis’ mandates that no crime was committed.


14 posted on 10/08/2020 6:15:11 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: Veto!

Thats one sweet deal they got going with Uncle Sam.

Any wonder they were conquered?


15 posted on 10/08/2020 6:20:04 PM PDT by Delta 21 (Get off your ass and earn it!)
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To: SJackson
Archer and Hunter Biden shared a room in college and stuck together.

They collected millions as board members of Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company, around the time of the Oglala bond issues.

I can live large on 20 grand a year - but I'm not a Perfumed Prince of The Swamp.

These people are GREEDY little ducks.

Archer was getting coddled by the Obamajudge Ronnie Abrams (maybe she was making goo-goo eyes at Dashing Devon on the side?).

Here's the straight dope:

https://legalnewsline.com/stories/557006801-second-circuit-reinstates-jury-s-fraud-verdict-against-hunter-biden-s-former-business-partner

16 posted on 10/08/2020 6:20:57 PM PDT by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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To: Delta 21

PLUS, they make billions running all of the casinos in the USA. We now have two in Spokane and another right across the state line in Idaho. Tribal leaders make all of the $$, poor braves make nothing.


17 posted on 10/08/2020 6:40:36 PM PDT by Veto! (Political Correctness Offends Me)
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To: SJackson

Looks like the Sioux/sue are going to teach Archer what real archery looks and feels like. Hope it hurts up the wazhoo.


18 posted on 10/08/2020 8:42:30 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Veto!

Have never understood why they didnt take hard control of their borders. Entry/leaving/pass thru taxes, you know, just like a bone fide government would do. Monopolizations on natural resources on their land as well as creating non-us controled independently taxed and charged to the highest bidder, drum roll please, Tonto, World Class Health Care that Big-Opharma would be afraid to take on.

My Choctaw brothers screwed the pooch.
“Hit Me, I cant double down.”
Glad I checked the “WHITE” box on that form, eh?


19 posted on 10/09/2020 9:26:10 AM PDT by Delta 21 (Get off your ass and earn it!)
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