Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) released a minimally redacted copy of the FBI’s FD-1023 detailing a confidential human source’s reporting of a criminal scheme involving then-Vice President Joe Biden and the Ukrainian business Burisma. According to the FD-1023 summary, Burisma’s owner specifically referenced the firing of Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin — the same man Biden bragged about Ukraine firing after his threat to withhold aid from the country while he was vice president.
After months of pushing the Justice Department and FBI to explain what investigative procedures they had undertaken in response to evidence implicating then-Vice President Biden in a criminal bribery scheme, Grassley released the unclassified copy of the FD-1023, which documented claims made by the “highly credible” confidential human source (CHS). Grassley had acquired the FD-1023 via legally protected disclosures by Justice Department whistleblowers.
While some of the information included in the FD-1023 has already been revealed by members of the House who previously reviewed the summary of the CHS’s reporting, the public release provides new explosive details related to the firing of Ukrainian prosecutor Shokin.
Among the CHS’s conversations with Burisma’s owner Mykola Zlochevsky, one took place shortly after Joe Biden made his first public statement about Shokin “being corrupt.” According to the CHS, Shokin was investigating Burisma, and Zlochevsky told the CHS that “Hunter will take care of all of those issues through his dad.”
Then, following Trump’s election in 2016, the CHS spoke again with Zlochevsky, who expressed dissatisfaction with Trump’s victory but noted that “Shokin had already been fired, and no investigation was currently going on…” Zlochevsky’s statement proves significant because Joe Biden had long claimed he pushed for Shokin’s firing because Shokin was not investigating Burisma — which is the exact opposite of the details summarized in the FD-1023.
Beyond putting the already known details in black-and-white for the public to read, such as Zlochevsky’s representation that he had 17 recordings of the Bidens and had never paid the “Big Guy” directly, the release of the FD-1023 is significant for another reason: The American public now knows the many details the FBI could have and should have investigated.
For instance, did Burisma or any related entity purchase a Texas-based oil and gas company for approximately $20-$30 million during the relevant period? Were the CHS and his business partner in Kyiv in the 2015 and 2016 time period? Did CHS’s U.S. business partner confirm the details of the meeting? Was the CHS in London during the relevant time in 2019? And did the FBI ever ask the CHS to record his conversations with Zlochevsky or attempt to turn Zlochevsky into an asset?
According to the FD-1023 report, in 2019, the CHS had offered to assist Zlochevsky if he wanted to speak to the U.S. government about the Bidens and what Zlochevsky claimed was their coercion of Burisma to pay the bribes. Did anyone ever ask the CHS to contact Zlochevsky? If not, why not?
The public release of the FD-1023 is significant now for a third reason: It comes on the heels of the IRS whistleblowers’ testimony Wednesday before the House Oversight Committee that suggested the CHS’s reporting corroborates other evidence.
During Wednesday’s hours-long hearing, IRS whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler both told lawmakers they had never seen the FD-1023. Significantly, Ziegler then stated: “There are things that are contained on that document that could further corroborate other information that we might be having an issue corroborating because it could be regarding a foreign official. So if we have information regarding that in a document or a witness, we can further corroborate later evidence.”
But because federal law prohibits the discussion of confidential taxpayers’ information, other than through specific procedures, Ziegler did not detail what, if any, information they may have discovered during their investigation into Hunter Biden. Instead, Ziegler said, “if that’s something that we have, we can turn that over to the House Ways and Means Committee.”
This testimony suggests that the IRS’s investigation likely uncovered evidence the FD-1023 corroborated. With that form now public, both Ziegler and Shapley can study it and assess what documentary material, such as wire transfer reports, they uncovered that is now corroborated. However, that evidence will have to go to the House Ways and Means Committee before it is made public.
So much for Democrats’ claim that there is no evidence of Joe Biden’s complicity and corruption.
Public information corroborates details of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) document implicating Hunter Biden in corrupt dealings with Ukrainian energy firm Burisma, Margot Cleveland of The Federalist first reported.
The FBI document is based on information provided by a “key confidential source,” who told the FBI that Burisma had paid Hunter Biden to secure access to then-Vice President Joe Biden’s political pull to assist the firm’s efforts to make money. Public information corroborates details about Burisma’s dealings in 2015 and 2016, which align with the source’s claims implicating the Bidens in corrupt activities in Ukraine, according to the FBI document and Margot Cleveland’s analysis.
The confidential source asserted that Burisma intended to access U.S. capital markets sometime in late 2015 or early 2016 and that the firm was willing to spend up to $30 million to do so, according to the FBI document. Hunter Biden advised Burisma executives to buy an existing, established energy company in the U.S. to access Western markets because it could raise far more capital via U.S. markets than it could elsewhere.
In January 2016, Burisma ended up buying a majority stake in KUB-Gas, an energy company listed on a Canadian stock exchange, for $30 million, according to Interfax-Ukraine. Though Burisma does not appear to have accessed American capital markets as it had hoped, the timing and size of the deals it made to access Western capital markets generally align with the assertions of the FBI’s source, according to the FBI document and Cleveland’s analysis.
Burisma paid Hunter Biden a monthly salary of $50,000 despite his lack of relevant experience in the energy sector, according to the FBI document.
A Burisma executive told the FBI’s confidential source that they had placed Hunter Biden on the company’s board to “protect us, through his dad, from all kinds of problems,” according to the FBI document. The company was under investigation by a Ukrainian prosecutor, which posed a problem for Burisma’s hopes of accessing U.S. capital because an ongoing investigation would likely have foiled an attempt to raise capital in the West, according to the FBI document.
The Ukrainian prosecutor was fired in March 2016, according to USA Today, with then-Vice President Joe Biden leveraging $1 billion in U.S. aid funds to do so.
Serinus, the London-listed previous majority owner of KUB-Gas before the 2016 deal with Burisma, also operates in Romania, according to its website. The Bidens allegedly received money from corrupt Romanian oligarchs in exchange for access to their political pull.
Summary
Enough of the stonewalling! It’s now evident to everyone who honestly examines facts of the happenings in our government that our Department of Justice, FBI, and White House collectively along with Attorney General Merrick Garland, FBI Director Christopher Wray, and President Joe Biden lead a team of criminals who have (and are) continually committing criminal acts against the American people!
It is further obvious that the so-called “Mainstream Media” are nothing more than mouthpieces for the drivel these agencies and people wish to spew to the People use daily with impunity.
This all put together proves we no longer live in the freest and most democratic country in World history.
If you disagree with me, PLEASE give me your reasoning — and please include factual justification for your opinion.
In closing, know this: unless the People of the United States begin to elect ONLY representatives who will truly do the work of the People and NOT the work of the Government, we are all toast. We are dangerously close to being a copy of multiple Central American and South American countries — if we are not already there!
How can we right this ship? It will only happen “if” and “when” we demand nothing less that accountability for EVERYONE within the U.S. borders when acts that are committed run opposite of the Rule of Law and EVERY law passed by Congress and signed by a U.S. President.
Do you honestly feel we are doing that already? If you feel that way, you and those you love are doomed to a very bleak and totalitarian future.
I reject that!
