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<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cFor the better part of a year, I\u2019ve been pushing the Justice Department and FBI to provide details on its handling of very significant allegations from a trusted FBI informant implicating then-Vice President Biden in a criminal bribery scheme. While the FBI sought to obfuscate and redact, the American people can now read this document for themselves, without the filter of politicians or bureaucrats, thanks to brave and heroic whistleblowers. What did the Justice Department and FBI do with the detailed information in the document? And why have they tried to conceal it from Congress and the American people for so long? The Justice Department and FBI have failed to come clean, but Chairman Comer and I intend to find out,\u201d\u00a0Grassley said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe FBI\u2019s Biden Bribery Record tracks closely with the evidence uncovered by the Oversight Committee\u2019s Biden family influence peddling investigation. In the FBI\u2019s record, the Burisma executive claims that he didn\u2019t pay the \u2018big guy\u2019 directly but that he used several bank accounts to conceal the money. That sounds an awful lot like how the Bidens conduct business: using multiple bank accounts to hide the source and total amount of the money,\u201d\u00a0House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer said.\u00a0\u201cAt our hearing with IRS whistleblowers, they testified that they had never seen or heard of this record during the Biden criminal investigation, despite having potentially corroborating evidence. Given the misconduct and politicization at the Department of Justice, the American people must be able to read this record for themselves. I thank Senator Grassley for providing much needed transparency to the American people. We must hold the Department of Justice accountable for seeking to bury this record to protect the Bidens.\u201d<\/p>\n
Grassley first disclosed the FBI\u2019s possession of\u00a0significant and voluminous evidence<\/a>\u00a0of potential criminality involving the Biden family last year. He has since worked to unearth the FBI record, eventually\u00a0partnering with Comer<\/a>\u00a0on a subpoena to compel its public disclosure. After delays, the FBI provided a highly redacted version of the document to select members of the House of Representatives, but it remained shielded from the public and omitted key details, including\u00a0references to recordings<\/a>. Following the FBI\u2019s failure to fully comply with the congressional subpoena, Grassley received the legally protected disclosure with limited redactions to protect a trusted FBI source, handling agents, department whistleblowers and identifiers related to other ongoing investigations.<\/p>\n Read the FD-1023<\/a><\/p>\n \u2018Poluchili\u2019<\/p>\n According to the FBI\u2019s confidential human source, executives for Burisma, a Ukrainian gas company, brought Hunter Biden on the board to \u201cprotect us through his dad, from all kinds of problems.\u201d At the time, Burisma was seeking to do business in the United States, but was facing a corruption investigation in Ukraine, led by then-Ukraine Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin. Regarding that investigation\u2019s impact on its ambitions in North America, Burisma CEO Mykola Zlochevsky reportedly said, \u201cDon’t worry Hunter will take care of all of those issues through his dad.\u201d Zlochevsky reportedly stated that he had to pay $5 million to Hunter Biden and $5 million to Joe Biden, an arrangement he described as \u2018poluchili,\u2019 which is Russian crime slang for being \u201cforced or coerced to pay,\u201d according to the document.<\/p>\n \u201cBack-up\u201d<\/p>\n Zlochevsky claimed to have many text messages and recordings that show that he was coerced into paying the Bidens to ensure Shokin was fired. Specifically, he claimed to have two recordings with Joe Biden and 15 recordings with Hunter Biden. Zlochevsky also retained two documents, presumably financial records, as evidence of the arrangement, but said he didn\u2019t send any funds directly to the \u201cBig Guy,\u201d a term understood to be a reference to Joe Biden. References to the \u201cBig Guy\u201d surfaced in communications involving other Biden family business arrangements independent of the Burisma arrangement. Zlochevsky claimed it would take investigators 10 years to uncover the illicit payments to the Bidens, according to the document.<\/p>\n Related: -30-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Washington, DC…Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today released an unclassified FBI-generated record describing an alleged criminal scheme involving then-Vice President Joe Biden and a Ukrainian business executive. 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