Devon Archer, a former close friend and business partner of first son Hunter Biden, was supposed to face sentencing this month for a 2018 fraud conviction after several years of delay because of appeals.

The sentencing hearing has since been further delayed until November after Archer's attorneys revealed that their client is a cooperating witness in multiple investigations run by Congress and the Department of Justice, according to Just the News.

Archer's cooperation with a congressional committee's probe of alleged Biden family corruption was already known, but it has now been made public that he is also assisting an ongoing DOJ criminal case involving a murder-for-hire conspiracy.

Archer convicted of fraud in 2018, faces sentencing after appeals were denied

NBC News reported in January that Archer would likely face sentencing later this year for a 2018 conviction in a tribal bonds fraud scheme involving several of Hunter Biden's former associates, -- but apparently not Biden himself -- including Jason Galanis, who received a 14-year sentence for leading the scheme to defraud a Native American tribe years earlier.

Archer had appealed that conviction but it was upheld by a 2nd Circuit Court panel in 2023, and a petition for the Supreme Court to hear his further appeal was rejected.

Though out on bail while the appellate process played out, Archer faced a likely sentence of one year plus one day in prison for the 2018 fraud conviction.

Archer cooperating with Congress and DOJ

According to the docket for the United States v. Galanis case, Archer was initially due to be formally sentenced to serve his one year plus one day in prison at an August 2 sentencing hearing before presiding Judge Ronnie Abrams, but on July 17, Abrams ordered that hearing delayed until November 8.

The order from Abrams came in response to a July 16 letter from Archer's attorney Matthew Schwartz, who requested an adjournment of the August 2 hearing "to allow Mr. Archer to complete his ongoing cooperation with Congressional and Department of Justice investigations, and to allow the Court to have all relevant information about that cooperation at sentencing."

"With respect to the Congressional investigations, Mr. Archer continues to produce documents to the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees and
otherwise respond to their inquiries -- as recently as earlier today -- and we anticipate that he will provide testimony in open hearings in the coming weeks, although no precise date has been set," the attorney continued.

As for the "admittedly somewhat cryptic reference to 'other ongoing investigations'" in previous correspondence, Schwartz wrote, that pertained to a federal criminal case known as United States v. Serhat Gumrukcu that involved a kidnapping, murder-for-hire, and wire fraud conspiracy in Vermont in 2018.

"To be clear, Mr. Archer is a potential witness in those proceedings, as he was a victim of the defendant’s fraud, and was not in any way involved in the alleged criminal conduct in that case," the defense attorney noted and added that his client "has been actively cooperating with the government in that case, including by voluntarily producing documents and appearing as recently as earlier today for an interview with prosecutors and the FBI."

Archer previously testified about Biden family "brand" in Hunter's business dealings

Schwartz concluded the letter to Judge Abrams by estimating that Archer's cooperation with Congress and the DOJ should be completed by early November.

He wrote, "While we appreciate that this case has been pending for some time, we respectfully submit that there will be no prejudice from adjourning Mr. Archer’s sentencing by a few months, and that the interests of justice will be served by allowing Mr. Archer to complete his cooperation and by the Court having all relevant facts at its disposal at the time of sentencing."

Just the News observed that Archer testified in July 2023 to Congress as part of the combined President Joe Biden impeachment probe and investigation of alleged Biden family corruption, and though he didn't directly link the president to any overt criminal wrongdoing, his testimony about former partner Hunter's exploitation of the family name "brand" in his dubious international business dealings was damning.