FBI informed Delaware U.S. Attorney of partial corroboration for Biden bribery claims, source reveals.

Explosive Allegations: FBI Corroborates Bribery ⁤Scheme Involving Hunter and Joe Biden

When the Pittsburgh FBI office ⁢briefed the Delaware⁤ U.S. attorney’s office on evidence ‌implicating Hunter and Joe Biden in ‌a bribery scheme, the agents also told ‍the Delaware team they had already corroborated several aspects of the confidential human source’s claims,‌ an individual‌ familiar with the ⁣briefing told The Federalist.

On Thursday, Sen.⁣ Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, released the FD-1023 summary of a confidential human source’s reporting that the Ukrainian⁢ oil and gas company Burisma paid Hunter and Joe Biden each $5 million in bribes ⁢so the then-Vice President would⁤ “protect”‍ Burisma “from all kinds of problems.” Those bribes were in addition to the more‌ than‌ $4 ​million in total paid to Hunter Biden and his business partner Devon Archer ⁣for sitting⁢ on Burisma’s board of directors.

Pittsburgh FBI Corroborates​ Evidence

The Federalist has now learned that the Pittsburgh FBI office had corroborated several details contained in⁤ the FD-1023 as part of the intake process that former⁤ Attorney General William Barr established ‍before the⁤ election under the leadership of⁢ the Western District ‌of​ Pennsylvania’s then-U.S. Attorney Scott Brady. Significantly, in⁤ briefing the ⁢Delaware U.S.‌ attorney ⁣on the results of their office’s screening‍ of​ evidence related⁤ to Ukraine, the Pittsburgh FBI agents told the‍ Delaware office they had corroborated multiple facts included in the FD-1023, an individual with⁤ knowledge of the briefing told The ​Federalist.

Following the late ​June 2020 interview with the CHS, the Pittsburgh FBI office obtained travel records for the⁢ CHS, and those records confirmed the CHS⁤ had traveled to the locales detailed ⁢in the FD-1023 during the relevant ⁢time period. The trips included a⁢ late 2015 or‍ early 2016 ‍visit to Kiev, Ukraine; ​a trip a ‌couple ⁣of months later⁣ to Vienna, Austria; and travel ​to London in 2019.

As ⁣The Federalist previously reported, during ⁢their ‍briefing of the Delaware U.S.​ attorney’s office, the Pittsburgh FBI⁣ agents said the⁢ FD-1023 bore indicia of credibility‌ and‌ that it merited further investigation. The person familiar with that briefing ‍now confirms the agents⁣ also informed the Delaware office that the Pittsburgh​ FBI ⁣had corroborated the CHS’s presence in the various cities at the times claimed.

Significantly, the Pittsburgh office briefed the Delaware office on that piece of corroborating evidence that came from the CHS’s handler.

Open-source reporting of Burisma’s purchase of an ⁣interest ‍in a North American oil and gas company likewise lined‍ up​ with the discussions ‌the CHS relayed to the FBI, ⁤as summarized in the FD-1023,​ the ⁣individual familiar‌ with the briefing told The Federalist.

That the ⁣Pittsburgh FBI ⁤office not only‌ provided the Delaware office with a ⁣summary of the damning FD-1023 and its conclusion ⁤that it bore indicia of credibility but ​also identified several pieces of corroborating evidence is⁤ huge because, to date, it appears​ the Delaware office‌ did nothing to investigate⁢ the allegations contained in the FD-1023.

As‍ Barr previously made clear, the role​ of the Pittsburgh office was⁤ limited to ⁣providing​ a “clearing-house function”⁣ for information related to ⁣Ukraine to weed out “any‍ potential disinformation.” The purpose of the intake process, Barr‍ stressed, was to “check[] ⁢ out the source and credibility of evidence ⁢before​ assigning it to one of the ongoing investigations already pending in​ the Department,” such ⁢as the Delaware investigation into Hunter Biden.

As such, the⁣ Pittsburgh⁣ office lacked ⁢the authority to subpoena witnesses‍ or​ records or to ​use grand jury‍ proceedings to further corroborate the FD-1023. ‍That responsibility ⁢fell with the Delaware office.

But not‌ only did the Delaware ⁢office apparently ignore the allegations contained in the‌ FD-1023, as well as the ⁣corroborating⁢ evidence ⁤already allegedly accumulated by the Pittsburgh FBI office, but ⁢U.S. Attorney David​ Weiss’s office allegedly secreted the very existence ⁣of the FD-1023 from the whistleblowers. Both IRS whistleblowers testified last week that they did not even learn of the existence of⁢ the ⁤FD-1023 until Barr publicly confirmed ​he had sent the information to⁢ Delaware for further investigation.

Delaware Assistant U.S. ​Attorney Lesley Wolf ⁣also excluded the IRS agents working the Hunter ⁣Biden investigation from the meeting at which the Pittsburgh FBI agents briefed ⁤the office on the ⁤FD-1023 ⁢and ‌the ⁣corroborating evidence they had already uncovered. The IRS whistleblowers further testified that‌ portions of Hunter Biden’s laptop were withheld from them and they were explicitly prohibited​ from taking​ any ⁢investigative steps connected to Joe ‍Biden ⁢—⁢ or ⁤questioning anyone by using Joe Biden’s name, “Dad,” ⁤or “the Big Guy.”

Under these‌ circumstances,‍ even if the Delaware U.S. attorney’s office comes forward now to⁢ say it did investigate the FD-1023, its belated claim would ⁣be meaningless because the individuals with the knowledge and skill necessary to investigate a complex, international‍ money ⁤laundering, bribery, and tax fraud scheme were cut out of the process and ⁢barred from interviewing the necessary witnesses.

The ​Delaware office remains mum,‍ however, not⁢ even pretending to have investigated the​ FD-1023’s allegations. That failure is even more scandalous now that we know Pittsburgh had​ already corroborated several‌ aspects of the CHS’s reporting and briefed Weiss’s ​office on the corroborating evidence.

Yet the Biden White House continues to falsely claim ‌the FD-1023 charges “have been debunked for years.” On the contrary, the ​only⁤ thing debunked to date has been the ‌lies of Biden’s Democrat apologists, such as Ranking Member of the House Oversight⁢ Committee Jamie Raskin, who ​ doubled down on his claim that ‌Barr had found ‌the FD-1023‍ not credible ​and not meriting further investigation.

Americans ​now⁤ know not ⁢only that ‍Raskin and his Democrat colleagues ⁢lied, ‍but that President Joe Biden ⁣lied —​ both when he said he knew⁢ nothing of his‌ son’s business ventures and in claiming⁤ now that the FD-1023 ‍has‍ been debunked.