Hunter Biden’s former business partner Devon Archer told the House Oversight Committee on Monday about President Biden’s role in his son’s foreign dealings, detailing about two dozen encounters as congressional Republicans close in on to initiate an impeachment investigation.
A source familiar with Archer’s nearly four-hour closed-door interview said Archer testified that Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma Holdings added Hunter to its board in early 2014 because of the Biden “brand” , as his father directed US policy toward Ukraine.
Archer also testified that Burisma owner Mykola Zlochevsky, who allegedly told an FBI informant he was “coerced” into paying $10 million in bribes to Hunter and then-Vice President Joe Biden, and the company executive Vadym Pozharskyi in late 2015 put intense pressure on Hunter to enlist the US government to help impeach Ukrainian Attorney General Viktor Shokin, who had investigated Burisma for corruption.
He said he witnessed the then-second son, Zlochevsky and Pozharskyi walk away while “calling DC” to discuss the matter, the source said, without specifying what Archer said about the newly surfaced bribery allegation.