Leroy N. Soetoro
2023-07-20 21:48:46 UTC
https://nypost.com/2023/07/20/biden-bribe-file-released-burisma-chief-
said-both-joe-and-hunter-involved/
WASHINGTON A bombshell FBI informant file describing a $10 million
bribery allegation against President Biden and his son Hunter was released
Thursday by Sen. Chuck Grassley, showing that a Ukrainian oligarch claimed
that he was coerced into making the payoff.
Mykola Zlochevsky, the owner of natural gas company Burisma Holdings, told
the FBI informant in 2016 while meeting at a coffee shop in Vienna,
Austria, that it cost 5 [million] to pay one Biden, and 5 [million] to
another Biden, according to the redacted FD-1023 form.
Zlochevsky made some comment that although Hunter Biden was stupid, and
his (Zlochevskys) dog was smarter, Zlochevsky needed to keep Hunter
Biden (on Burismas board) so everything will be okay, the June 2020
document says.
The source asked whether Hunter Biden or Joe Biden told Zlochevsky he
should retain the younger Biden; Zlochevsky allegedly replied, They
both did.
The federal informant a Ukrainian-American who has been a trusted,
highly credible FBI source for over a decade and been paid six figures,
according to Grassley described four conversations with Zlochevsky,
beginning with a meeting near Kyiv in late 2015 or early 2016 and
continuing through a 2019 phone call.
The informant said each of his conversations with Zlochevsky occurred in
the presence of a man named Alexander Ostapenko giving the FBI a
possible supporting witness.
Ostapenko introduced the informant to Zlochevsky and works in some
office for the administration of [Ukrainian] President [Volodymyr]
Zelensky, the file says.
Zlochevsky allegedly claimed to have 17 recordings of conversations with
the Bidens two of which involved Joe as well as many text messages
and two documents that the informant understood to be financial records
of payment(s) to the Bidens.
According to Zlochevsky, the recordings and other evidence showed he was
somehow coerced into paying the Bidens to ensure Ukraine Prosecutor
General Viktor Shokin was fired, the FBI source added.
In their final discussion, Zlochevsky allegedly told the informant over
the phone that he had been an oracle for warning against partnering with
the Bidens due to political controversy in the US.
[The informant] mentioned Zlochevsky might have difficulty explaining
suspicious wire transfers that may evidence any (Illicit) payments to the
Bidens, the file says.
Zlochevsky responded he did not send any funds directly to the Big Guy
(which [the FBI source] understood was a reference to Joe Biden). [The
source] asked Zlochevsky how many companies/bank accounts Zlochevsky
controls; Zlochevsky responded it would take them (Investigators) 10 years
to find the records (i.e. illicit payments to Joe Biden).
https://nypost.com/wp-
content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/NYPICHPDPICT000014381672.jpg?resize=768,99
4&quality=75&strip=all
Mykola Zlochevsky, the owner of natural gas company Burisma Holdings, told
the FBI informant in 2016 while meeting at a coffee shop in Vienna,
Austria, that it cost 5 [million] to pay one Biden, and 5 [million] to
another Biden,
https://nypost.com/wp-
content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/NYPICHPDPICT000014381677.jpg?resize=768,99
4&quality=75&strip=all
Zlochevsky allegedly claimed to have 17 recordings of conversations with
the Bidens.
https://nypost.com/wp-
content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/NYPICHPDPICT000014381684.jpg?resize=768,99
4&quality=75&strip=all
The source added that Zlochevsky was convinced the recordings and other
evidence showed he was somehow coerced into paying the Bidens.
The big guy reference is significant because the same nickname was used
to describe a tentative 10% cut for Joe Biden in 2017 as part of a
partnership with Chinese-government-linked CEFC China Energy. The moniker
wasnt publicly known until October 2020 months after the informant file
was created.
At the Vienna meeting in 2016, Zlochevsky allegedly described Hunter as a
conduit to his father when asked about Shokins investigation of Burisma.
Zlochevsky replied something to the effect of, Dont worry Hunter will
take care of all of those issues through his dad. [The informant] did not
ask any further questions about what that specifically meant, the file
reported.
Joe Biden has publicly said that he used $1 billion in US loan guarantees
as leverage to force Shokin from office, which happened in March 2016.
Well, son of a bitch. He got fired, Biden bragged at a 2018 event hosted
by the Council on Foreign Relations.
Hunter Bidens employment with Burisma emerged as a major US news story in
2019 when then-President Donald Trump was impeached for pressuring Ukraine
to investigate the Bidens. House Democrats pointed out that although
Shokins office had investigated Burisma, evidence indicated that his
firing also was sought by US allies in Europe due to his own corruption.
In addition to the prosecutors ouster, former White House stenographer
Mike McCormick says Joe Biden advocated US support for Ukraines natural
gas industry during a trip to Kyiv just days after Hunter quietly joined
Burisma, in what he described as a clear conflict of interest.
White House spokesman Ian Sams said in a statement that congressional
Republicans, in their eagerness to go after President Biden regardless of
the truth, continue to push claims that have been debunked for years and
that they themselves have cautioned to take with a grain of salt because
they could be made up.
These claims have reportedly been scrutinized by the Trump Justice
Department, a Trump-appointed US Attorney, and a full impeachment trial of
the former President that centered on these very issues, and over and over
again, they have been found to lack credibility, Sams said.
Its clear that congressional Republicans are dead-set on playing
shameless, dishonest politics and refuse to let truth get in the way. It
is well past time for news organizations to hold them to basic levels of
factual accountability for their repeated and increasingly desperate
efforts to mislead both the public and the press.
Hunter Bidens legal team did not immediately respond to a request for
comment.
President Biden has tried to laugh off the bribery accusation, saying last
month in response to a question from The Post, Wheres the money?
House Republicans are investigating references on Hunter Bidens laptop to
Burisma opening a Maltese bank account in 2016.
https://nypost.com/wp-
content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/NYPICHPDPICT000012380978-
1.jpg?resize=1024,1024&quality=75&strip=all
Zlochevsky has not publicly commented on the bribery allegation since it
surfaced publicly on May 3, but he allegedly said in 2019 to Ukrainian-
born businessman Lev Parnas, a former associate of Trump lawyer Rudy
Giuliani, that representatives of his company never spoke to Joe Biden.
According to a transcript provided by Parnas to Politico in 2020,
Zlochevsky said, No one from Burisma ever had any contacts with VP Biden
or people working for him during Hunter Bidens engagement.
Parnas, who broke with Trump and Giuliani in 2019, was convicted in 2021
of making illegal campaign contributions to Trump, for which he was
sentenced to 20 months in prison.
Then-Vice President Joe Biden met with his sons partner Devon Archer in
2014 around the time both Hunter Biden and Archer joined the Burisma
board, according to Obama White House visitor logs.
Joe Biden also met with Burisma executive Vadym Pozharskyi at an April 16,
2015, dinner at DCs Cafe Milano, as revealed in The Posts first
bombshell report in October 2020 on the contents of Hunter Bidens
abandoned laptop.
The FBI has informed members of Congress that the bribery tip was referred
to the office of Delaware US Attorney David Weiss for further
investigation, though its unclear what has been done since to determine
its accuracy.
IRS supervisory agent Gary Shapley testified to the House Oversight
Committee on Wednesday that federal tax agents werent told of the large
alleged bribe amounts during their five-year-old investigation of Hunter
for tax fraud.
Information like this would have been really helpful to have, Shapley
said. The team, to the best of my knowledge, never saw that [FD-1023]
document.
The informant file was created after the FBI found an earlier reference to
the malfeasance in a 2017 file by the same informant, according to members
of Congress involved in oversight investigations.
Its unclear when exactly the alleged payments would have been made by
Burisma, which first added Hunter Biden to its board in April 2014 as his
dad assumed control of the Obama administrations Ukraine policy.
Burisma paid Hunter up to $1 million per year through 2019, apart from the
alleged bribes.
https://www.scribd.com/document/660206008/FD-1023-Senator-Grassley-
FINAL#download&from_embed
Grassley (R-Iowa), who released a redacted version of the four-page
document, asked in a statement, What did the Justice Department and FBI
do with the detailed information in the document? And why have they tried
to conceal it from Congress and the American people for so long?
The allegation has been the subject of intense political focus since it
was first described publicly and Republican members of Congress have
floated impeaching the president if supporting evidence is found.
FBI Director Christopher Wray allowed members of the House Oversight
Committee to read the document last month after the bureau initially
refused sparking a push by panel chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) to hold
Wray in contempt.
Charles Smith
3 hours ago
I do not understand why Rep. Comer and Sen. Grassley are releasing
information on the Bidens in such a haphazard, piecemeal and incremental
manner. It isn't working. Make a few big splashes, not a hundred small
ones.
Im non Bidenary
3 hours ago
Because it makes it look like they are doing something .it takes time to
do a full investigation so in a few years nothing will be done and then on
to another investigation and committee meeting
Reality Check
2 hours ago
No, it's because they have to educate the American public about what
happened. It's complicated stuff and revealing systematically over a
period time helps the public digest and come to terms with THE ROT at the
top of Wash DC. Unfortunately, commenter AV, above, is probably right that
the DOJ will do nothing with any criminal referrals submitted to them. AG
Garland is in Brandon's pocket!
--
We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that
stupid people won't be offended.
Durham Report: The FBI has an integrity problem. It has none.
No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.
Officially made Nancy Pelosi a two-time impeachment loser.
Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden
fiasco, President Trump.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
President Trump boosted the economy, reduced illegal invasions, appointed
dozens of judges and three SCOTUS justices.
said-both-joe-and-hunter-involved/
WASHINGTON A bombshell FBI informant file describing a $10 million
bribery allegation against President Biden and his son Hunter was released
Thursday by Sen. Chuck Grassley, showing that a Ukrainian oligarch claimed
that he was coerced into making the payoff.
Mykola Zlochevsky, the owner of natural gas company Burisma Holdings, told
the FBI informant in 2016 while meeting at a coffee shop in Vienna,
Austria, that it cost 5 [million] to pay one Biden, and 5 [million] to
another Biden, according to the redacted FD-1023 form.
Zlochevsky made some comment that although Hunter Biden was stupid, and
his (Zlochevskys) dog was smarter, Zlochevsky needed to keep Hunter
Biden (on Burismas board) so everything will be okay, the June 2020
document says.
The source asked whether Hunter Biden or Joe Biden told Zlochevsky he
should retain the younger Biden; Zlochevsky allegedly replied, They
both did.
The federal informant a Ukrainian-American who has been a trusted,
highly credible FBI source for over a decade and been paid six figures,
according to Grassley described four conversations with Zlochevsky,
beginning with a meeting near Kyiv in late 2015 or early 2016 and
continuing through a 2019 phone call.
The informant said each of his conversations with Zlochevsky occurred in
the presence of a man named Alexander Ostapenko giving the FBI a
possible supporting witness.
Ostapenko introduced the informant to Zlochevsky and works in some
office for the administration of [Ukrainian] President [Volodymyr]
Zelensky, the file says.
Zlochevsky allegedly claimed to have 17 recordings of conversations with
the Bidens two of which involved Joe as well as many text messages
and two documents that the informant understood to be financial records
of payment(s) to the Bidens.
According to Zlochevsky, the recordings and other evidence showed he was
somehow coerced into paying the Bidens to ensure Ukraine Prosecutor
General Viktor Shokin was fired, the FBI source added.
In their final discussion, Zlochevsky allegedly told the informant over
the phone that he had been an oracle for warning against partnering with
the Bidens due to political controversy in the US.
[The informant] mentioned Zlochevsky might have difficulty explaining
suspicious wire transfers that may evidence any (Illicit) payments to the
Bidens, the file says.
Zlochevsky responded he did not send any funds directly to the Big Guy
(which [the FBI source] understood was a reference to Joe Biden). [The
source] asked Zlochevsky how many companies/bank accounts Zlochevsky
controls; Zlochevsky responded it would take them (Investigators) 10 years
to find the records (i.e. illicit payments to Joe Biden).
https://nypost.com/wp-
content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/NYPICHPDPICT000014381672.jpg?resize=768,99
4&quality=75&strip=all
Mykola Zlochevsky, the owner of natural gas company Burisma Holdings, told
the FBI informant in 2016 while meeting at a coffee shop in Vienna,
Austria, that it cost 5 [million] to pay one Biden, and 5 [million] to
another Biden,
https://nypost.com/wp-
content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/NYPICHPDPICT000014381677.jpg?resize=768,99
4&quality=75&strip=all
Zlochevsky allegedly claimed to have 17 recordings of conversations with
the Bidens.
https://nypost.com/wp-
content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/NYPICHPDPICT000014381684.jpg?resize=768,99
4&quality=75&strip=all
The source added that Zlochevsky was convinced the recordings and other
evidence showed he was somehow coerced into paying the Bidens.
The big guy reference is significant because the same nickname was used
to describe a tentative 10% cut for Joe Biden in 2017 as part of a
partnership with Chinese-government-linked CEFC China Energy. The moniker
wasnt publicly known until October 2020 months after the informant file
was created.
At the Vienna meeting in 2016, Zlochevsky allegedly described Hunter as a
conduit to his father when asked about Shokins investigation of Burisma.
Zlochevsky replied something to the effect of, Dont worry Hunter will
take care of all of those issues through his dad. [The informant] did not
ask any further questions about what that specifically meant, the file
reported.
Joe Biden has publicly said that he used $1 billion in US loan guarantees
as leverage to force Shokin from office, which happened in March 2016.
Well, son of a bitch. He got fired, Biden bragged at a 2018 event hosted
by the Council on Foreign Relations.
Hunter Bidens employment with Burisma emerged as a major US news story in
2019 when then-President Donald Trump was impeached for pressuring Ukraine
to investigate the Bidens. House Democrats pointed out that although
Shokins office had investigated Burisma, evidence indicated that his
firing also was sought by US allies in Europe due to his own corruption.
In addition to the prosecutors ouster, former White House stenographer
Mike McCormick says Joe Biden advocated US support for Ukraines natural
gas industry during a trip to Kyiv just days after Hunter quietly joined
Burisma, in what he described as a clear conflict of interest.
White House spokesman Ian Sams said in a statement that congressional
Republicans, in their eagerness to go after President Biden regardless of
the truth, continue to push claims that have been debunked for years and
that they themselves have cautioned to take with a grain of salt because
they could be made up.
These claims have reportedly been scrutinized by the Trump Justice
Department, a Trump-appointed US Attorney, and a full impeachment trial of
the former President that centered on these very issues, and over and over
again, they have been found to lack credibility, Sams said.
Its clear that congressional Republicans are dead-set on playing
shameless, dishonest politics and refuse to let truth get in the way. It
is well past time for news organizations to hold them to basic levels of
factual accountability for their repeated and increasingly desperate
efforts to mislead both the public and the press.
Hunter Bidens legal team did not immediately respond to a request for
comment.
President Biden has tried to laugh off the bribery accusation, saying last
month in response to a question from The Post, Wheres the money?
House Republicans are investigating references on Hunter Bidens laptop to
Burisma opening a Maltese bank account in 2016.
https://nypost.com/wp-
content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/NYPICHPDPICT000012380978-
1.jpg?resize=1024,1024&quality=75&strip=all
Zlochevsky has not publicly commented on the bribery allegation since it
surfaced publicly on May 3, but he allegedly said in 2019 to Ukrainian-
born businessman Lev Parnas, a former associate of Trump lawyer Rudy
Giuliani, that representatives of his company never spoke to Joe Biden.
According to a transcript provided by Parnas to Politico in 2020,
Zlochevsky said, No one from Burisma ever had any contacts with VP Biden
or people working for him during Hunter Bidens engagement.
Parnas, who broke with Trump and Giuliani in 2019, was convicted in 2021
of making illegal campaign contributions to Trump, for which he was
sentenced to 20 months in prison.
Then-Vice President Joe Biden met with his sons partner Devon Archer in
2014 around the time both Hunter Biden and Archer joined the Burisma
board, according to Obama White House visitor logs.
Joe Biden also met with Burisma executive Vadym Pozharskyi at an April 16,
2015, dinner at DCs Cafe Milano, as revealed in The Posts first
bombshell report in October 2020 on the contents of Hunter Bidens
abandoned laptop.
The FBI has informed members of Congress that the bribery tip was referred
to the office of Delaware US Attorney David Weiss for further
investigation, though its unclear what has been done since to determine
its accuracy.
IRS supervisory agent Gary Shapley testified to the House Oversight
Committee on Wednesday that federal tax agents werent told of the large
alleged bribe amounts during their five-year-old investigation of Hunter
for tax fraud.
Information like this would have been really helpful to have, Shapley
said. The team, to the best of my knowledge, never saw that [FD-1023]
document.
The informant file was created after the FBI found an earlier reference to
the malfeasance in a 2017 file by the same informant, according to members
of Congress involved in oversight investigations.
Its unclear when exactly the alleged payments would have been made by
Burisma, which first added Hunter Biden to its board in April 2014 as his
dad assumed control of the Obama administrations Ukraine policy.
Burisma paid Hunter up to $1 million per year through 2019, apart from the
alleged bribes.
https://www.scribd.com/document/660206008/FD-1023-Senator-Grassley-
FINAL#download&from_embed
Grassley (R-Iowa), who released a redacted version of the four-page
document, asked in a statement, What did the Justice Department and FBI
do with the detailed information in the document? And why have they tried
to conceal it from Congress and the American people for so long?
The allegation has been the subject of intense political focus since it
was first described publicly and Republican members of Congress have
floated impeaching the president if supporting evidence is found.
FBI Director Christopher Wray allowed members of the House Oversight
Committee to read the document last month after the bureau initially
refused sparking a push by panel chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) to hold
Wray in contempt.
Charles Smith
3 hours ago
I do not understand why Rep. Comer and Sen. Grassley are releasing
information on the Bidens in such a haphazard, piecemeal and incremental
manner. It isn't working. Make a few big splashes, not a hundred small
ones.
Im non Bidenary
3 hours ago
Because it makes it look like they are doing something .it takes time to
do a full investigation so in a few years nothing will be done and then on
to another investigation and committee meeting
Reality Check
2 hours ago
No, it's because they have to educate the American public about what
happened. It's complicated stuff and revealing systematically over a
period time helps the public digest and come to terms with THE ROT at the
top of Wash DC. Unfortunately, commenter AV, above, is probably right that
the DOJ will do nothing with any criminal referrals submitted to them. AG
Garland is in Brandon's pocket!
--
We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that
stupid people won't be offended.
Durham Report: The FBI has an integrity problem. It has none.
No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.
Officially made Nancy Pelosi a two-time impeachment loser.
Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden
fiasco, President Trump.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
President Trump boosted the economy, reduced illegal invasions, appointed
dozens of judges and three SCOTUS justices.