House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan released another classified intelligence file related to an alleged $10 million bribe payment to Hunter Biden and Joe Biden by the owner of Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma Holdings. They are requesting that they be turned over to FBI Director Christopher Wray.
Jordan (R-Ohio) said a March 1, 2017 file from a confidential source in the department contained information “material” to the committee's investigation into Hunter's overseas dealings and impeachment proceedings against President Biden. wrote that it may be included. thursday letter To Ray.
Jordan said the file “led to the creation of the file that is now publicly available.” [report]dated June 30, 2020, contains information implicating then-Vice President Biden in a multimillion-dollar bribery scheme and is “necessary” to the committee's work. , must be submitted by January 19th.
A 2020 FBI tip file released last year by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) shows that the president and his son were trying to get Burisma owner Mykola Zurlo fired in an effort to get Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin fired. It included the bombshell statement that he had “forced” Czefsky to pay each of them $5 million. Early 2016.
Jordan made the case in 2017 after members of the Judiciary Committee transcribed an interview with Scott Brady, a former Pittsburgh federal prosecutor who was appointed by then-Attorney General Bill Barr to investigate Ukraine corruption matters in 2020. He added that this was the “first time he learned” of the file.
Sources told the Post that Mr. Jordan intends to subpoena the informant if the FBI does not meet the Jan. 19 deadline. The department did not respond to a request for comment.
The 2017 informant file “discussed Hunter Biden” and also said that Burisma executive Vadim Pozharskiy's plans to “travel to Washington, D.C. in March 2017” was “discussed with U.S.-based oil It was unrelated to Burisma's interest in acquiring the business for between $50 million and $100 million.” '' said an FBI source.
The details are contained in a footnote in the 2020 file, which was “prepared” by Brady, who worked for the department for more than a decade, from “highly reliable” sources.
A former federal prosecutor told the Judiciary Committee in an Oct. 23, 2023, interview that “since we were made aware of it, the deputy prosecutors have continued to pursue that line in relation to Mr. Biden and his role at Burisma.” I have identified it,” he said.
“They brought it to my attention and said we need to work with the FBI to figure out what this is and what it's not. Go out and re-interview. could you do for me [confidential human source] And develop this,” Brady said. “That led to his 1023 in June 2020.”
The informant said he had exchanges with Zlochevsky in late 2015 and early 2016, around the time that then-Vice President Biden visited Kyiv and pressured then-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to fire Shokin. I mentioned four conversations.
The prosecutor was dismissed by a vote of Ukraine's parliament in March 2016.
In a 2018 Council on Foreign Relations panel discussion, the elder Biden boasted that he had threatened to withhold $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees from Mr. Poroshenko in December 2015 to force Mr. Shokin's ouster.
“Well, son of a bitch. He got fired,” the future president recalled, drawing laughter from the audience.
Congressional Democrats say the United States and European countries had called for Shokin's removal because of his own corruption.
Hunter Biden served on Burisma's board from 2014 to 2019, earning up to $1 million a year despite having no energy experience, but only a short time after his father left the White House. Two months later, in March 2017, his monthly salary was cut in half.
Zlochevsky told FBI sources that he had 17 recordings of conversations with the Bidens (two of them involving Joe) and “numerous text messages,” documents and financial information about “payments to the Bidens.” He said he has.
“Zlochevsky responded that he did not transfer funds directly to the 'big guy.' [the FBI source] (understood as a reference to Joe Biden),” the filing states.
“[The source] I asked Zlochevsky how many companies and bank accounts he controls. Mr. Zlochevsky responded that it would take (investigators) 10 years to find the records (i.e. the illegal payments to Joe Biden). ”
Several of Hunter's former colleagues have called Joe Biden a “great man” in emails discussing his eldest son's overseas business, including offering Joe Biden a 10% stake. This includes a 2017 deal with a Chinese government-backed energy conglomerate that was scheduled to be completed.
The deal is one of two bombshell reports by the Post in October 2020 about Hunter's plans to expand his influence with foreigners, which included a report on Hunter's discarded laptop. It was recovered from a hard drive.
The other reported that the then second son introduced his father to Pozharskiy in April 2015, with the meeting later confirmed to have taken place at Café Milano in Georgetown.
Hunter Biden, 53, is currently fighting both federal and Congressional investigations into his overseas business, and faces tax evasion charges in Los Angeles and weapons charges in Delaware.
