President Joe Biden's alleged “criminal bribery scheme” is tied to payments reportedly made by the Ukrainian energy company Burisma to members of the Biden family, GOP House Oversight Committee members said Thursday after viewing an FBI document related to the claims.
Amid the threat of being held in contempt of Congress for failing to comply with a subpoena, FBI Director Christopher Wray allowed members of the committee to review the FBI-generated FD-1023 document regarding the alleged bribery scandal on Thursday.The document, consisting of allegations relayed to a paid FBI informant, is currently being used in an active and ongoing investigation, committee chairman Rep. James Comer said.
Within the document, members of the committee said there were references to two other FBI documents related to the bribery allegations, which Comer and Oversight Committee ranking member Rep. Jamie Raskin are expected to review next week, according to two people familiar with the plans. “It is abundantly clear that there was only one reason that Hunter Biden was brought into this, and that's because of his relationship with his father,” Rep. Kelly Armstrong told the Washington Examiner. “I mean, that is abundantly clear, and that was made very clear in the document.”
“The FBI has within its possession a series of documents relating to information on Mykola Zlochevsky, the owner of Burisma, and his business and financial associations with Hunter Biden,” Sen. Chuck Grassley wrote in October. “The documents in the FBI’s possession include specific details with respect to conversations by non-government individuals relevant to potential criminal conduct by Hunter Biden.
Biden has said there is “no credibility” to the claims of corruption, but his critics have seized on video of a statement the former vice president made in January 2018, where he boasted that he ordered the Ukrainian government to fire Shokin or the White House would renege on a commitment to provide aid. “I looked at them and said: ‘I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money.’ Well, son of a bitch. He got fired," Biden said.
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