Here are five takeaways from Devon Archer's testimony to House lawmakers, as Republicans investigate the Biden family's business dealings.
gave Monday during a 5-hour closed-door meeting as Republicans push a wide-ranging investigation into the Biden family’s business dealings.while he served as vice president and was part of a bribery scheme with executives from Burisma, the Ukrainian energy firm in which Hunter Biden served as a board member. The White House has dismissed the allegations against him.
Archer testified Monday that Hunter Biden put his father, Joe Biden, on the speaker phone about 20 times to speak with Burisma executives over Archer's 10-year business partnership with Hunter. This includes times when Archer, Hunter Biden and other business associates were gathered at dinners in Paris and Beijing.
"I have no basis to know if he altered policy to benefit his son," Archer said."I have no knowledge." For instance, the House Committee referred to a 2014 email that Hunter Biden wrote to Archer where he said “My guy's upcoming travel should be characterized as part of our advice and thinking,” referring to then Vice President Joe Biden’s visit to Ukraine.
The first dinner was a birthday dinner. Archer said that he doesn’t remember the conversation that took place. “It cost $5 to pay one Biden, and 5 to another Biden,” Mykola Zlochevsky, the owner of Burisma Holdings, allegedly told the confidential informant, according to the FBI notes.
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