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BIDEN INVESTIGATION: GRASSLEY RELEASES FBI DOCUMENT ACCUSING JOE AND HUNTER
BIDEN OF BRIBERY SCHEME

by Ashley Oliver, Justice Department Reporter |
July 20, 2023 12:54 PM
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Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) on Thursday released the now-infamous FBI form that
contains a witness's account of President Joe Biden allegedly partaking in a
bribery scheme when he was vice president.

Grassley published in full the lightly redacted FD-1023 form, which several
congressional Republicans have already seen but that the public did not have
access to until Thursday.

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The Iowa Republican accused the FBI in an accompanying statement of seeking to
“obfuscate and redact” the form before the bureau ultimately cooperated with
congressional Republicans to show it to them.

“The American people can now read this document for themselves, without the
filter of politicians or bureaucrats, thanks to brave and heroic
whistleblowers,” Grassley, who acquired the document via legally protected
disclosures by Justice Department whistleblowers, said.

Read a copy of the form below.



The FBI uses FD-1023 forms to record “raw, unverified” information from
confidential human sources.

Grassley and House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) announced the
existence of the form in question in May and subpoenaed the FBI for a copy of
it. The FBI at first resisted cooperating with the committee, expressing concern
about the "sensitive" nature of the document.

Facing the prospect of Congress holding FBI Director Christopher Wray in
contempt, the FBI relented in June and allowed members to view a heavily
redacted version of it that Grassley said had blacked out, among several items,
the claim that a foreign national who had allegedly bribed the Bidens was in
possession of 17 audio recordings of conversations with the Bidens.

FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate defended the redactions in a Senate hearing that
month, saying they were in place to "protect the source."

"We often redact documents to protect sources and methods," Abbate said.

The form released Thursday and dated June 30, 2020, confirmed the existence of
the claim about audio recordings. It stated that the FBI's informant said Mykola
Zlochevsky, the founder of Ukrainian energy company Burisma, said he had "'17
recordings' involving the Bidens; two of the recordings included Joe Biden, and
the remaining 15 recordings included Hunter Biden."

The FBI's source "reiterated that, per Zlochevsky, these recordings evidence
Zlochevsky was somehow coerced into paying the Bidens to ensure Ukraine
Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin was fired" in 2016, the form stated.



The form also confirmed the existence of the FBI source's broader allegation
that Zlochevsky paid Joe and Hunter Biden each $5 million in exchange for
then-Vice President Joe Biden using his authority to fire Shokin, who was
investigating Burisma, with which the younger Biden held a lucrative board
position.

The form revealed the alleged existence of text messages as well.

"Zlochevsky replied [to the FBI's source] he has many text messages and
'recordings' that show that he was coerced to make such payments," the form
stated, suggesting the Bidens had "forced" him to pay them.

"Zlochevsky stated he has two 'documents (which [informant] understood to be
wire transfer statements, bank records, etc.), that evidence some payment(s) to
the Bidens were made, presumably in exchange for Shokin's firing," the form
added.

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The form also confirmed that Zlochevsky made reference to the "Big Guy," whom
the FBI's source perceived to be Joe Biden. The nickname surfaced in a separate
instance concerning Hunter Biden's negotiations in 2017 with a Chinese
businessman.

Comer in June called the FBI's source referenced on the form "a trusted, highly
credible informant who has been used by the FBI for years."


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