President Biden “may have been involved” in “potential criminal conduct” committed by first son Hunter Biden and first brother James Biden, Sen. Chuck Grassley charged in a letter to top law enforcement officials last week, citing FBI documents with “specific details.”
The Oct. 13 missive from Grassley (R-Iowa) to Attorney General Merrick Garland, FBI Director Christopher Wray and Delaware US Attorney David Weiss was obtained by the Washington Examiner Monday and accused the bureau of a “pattern and practice of political decisions,” citing FBI whistleblower allegations.
“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. 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,” Grassley writes in the letter. “These documents also indicate that Joe Biden was aware of Hunter Biden’s business arrangements and may have been involved in some of them.”
Grassley did not elaborate on the contents of the documents.
Mykola Zlochevsky, the founder of Burisma Holdings and the former Ukrainian minister of natural resources, has a long list of corruption accusations against him.
British authorities seized $23 million from Zlochevsky in 2014, alleging that it had been corruptly misappropriated, according to POLITICO, before a judge ruled the following year that Zlochevsky could get his money back because he was not under investigation by Ukrainian prosecutors.
Former US Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt accused Burisma Holdings of corruption and slammed the Ukrainian prosecutor’s office for helping Zlochevsky get his millions back by writing a letter to the British judge.
When Zlochevsky hired Hunter Biden to sit on Burisma’s board of directors, for a reported $1 million a year salary in 2014, some State Department officials raised concerns.
Earlier this year, a classified email from George Kent, the deputy chief of mission at the US Embassy in Ukraine in 2016, was revealed in which Kent said, “the real issue to my mind was that someone in Washington needed to engage VP Biden quietly and say that his son Hunter’s presence on the Burisma board undercut the anti-corruption message the VP and we were advancing in Ukraine.”
“Ukrainians heard one message from us and then saw another set of behavior, with the family association with a known corrupt figure whose company was known for not playing by the rules in the oil/gas sector,” Kent added.
Grassley went on to accuse the FBI of not properly examining “significant, impactful and voluminous evidence” in the investigation.
“Based on allegations, it is unclear whether the FBI followed normal investigative procedure to determine the truth and accuracy of the information or shut down investigative activity based on improper disinformation claims in advance of the 2020 election, just as it did with Hunter Biden information that I wrote to you about on July 25, 2022. It is also unclear whether U.S. Attorney Weiss has performed his own due diligence on these and related allegations,” Grassley writes.
The senator also wrote that whistleblowers have told his office that information on the Bidens’ alleged “pay-to-play” efforts in China, provided to the FBI by former Hunter Biden business associate Tony Bobulinski, is substantial — but that it’s unclear how closely the FBI is examining that evidence, either.
“The information provided by Mr. Bobulinski formed a sufficient basis to open a full field investigation on pay-to-play grounds; however, it is unclear whether the FBI did so and whether the information is part of the ongoing criminal investigation by U.S. Attorney Weiss,” Grassley said in the letter.
Hunter and James Biden reportedly received millions of dollars from Chinese energy company CEFC China Energy through numerous business deals. Joe Biden has repeatedly denied ever speaking with Hunter about his foreign business interests, but a trove of evidence from the first son’s abandoned laptop has cast doubt on that assertion.
Grassley has previously released whistleblower claims alleging that evidence against Hunter Biden was incorrectly labeled “disinformation” within the FBI.The letter was sent one week after the Washington Post reported that federal agents believe they have enough evidence to charge 52-year-old Hunter Biden with tax crimes — as well as lying about his drug abuse on a federal gun purchase form.
https://nypost.com/2022/10/17/fbi-has-voluminous-evidence-against-hunter-james-biden-sen-grassley/
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