A top Senate Republican revealed Monday that an FBI informant said the Ukrainian oligarch involved in an alleged “criminal bribery scheme” with Joe and Hunter Biden also claimed to have 17 recordings of his conversations with the president and his son.
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) revealed on the Senate floor that a largely unredacted version of the bureau’s FD-1023 confidential human source form said that “the foreign national who allegedly bribed Joe and Hunter Biden allegedly has audio recordings of his conversations with them — 17 such recordings.”
The Republican senator said, “These recordings were allegedly kept as a sort of insurance policy for the foreign national in case he got into a tight spot.”
Mykola Zlochevsky, the Ukrainian owner of Burisma, was the “foreign national” involved in the alleged “criminal bribery scheme” detailed in the FBI form, and Zlochevsky referred to Joe Biden as the “big guy” during a conversation several years before the June 2020 date of the bureau document, according to sources familiar with the FBI record who described its contents to the Washington Examiner.
Grassley added Monday that, according to the FD-1023, “the foreign national possesses 15 audio recordings of phone calls between him and Hunter Biden” and “two audio recordings of phone calls between him and the-Vice President Joe Biden.”
The senator also said the FBI record “also indicates that then-Vice President Joe Biden may have been involved in Burisma employing Hunter Biden.”
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Delaware is handling the ongoing federal criminal investigation into Hunter Biden. It is allegedly up to U.S. Attorney David Weiss, a Trump-appointed holdover, to decide whether to indict the president’s son. In February 2021, Joe Biden asked all Senate-confirmed U.S. attorneys appointed by Trump for their resignations, with Weiss a rare exception.
“What is U.S. Attorney Weiss doing with respect to these alleged Joe and Hunter Biden recordings that are apparently relevant to the high-stakes bribery scheme?” Grassley asked Monday.
Sources previously told the Washington Examiner that the Burisma owner discussed an alleged bribe of $5 million to Joe Biden and of $5 million to Hunter Biden, according to the paid FBI informant who said he heard this from Zlochevsky. The sources said Zlochevsky said he believed it would be difficult to unravel the alleged bribery scheme for at least 10 years because of the number of bank accounts involved.
Zlochevsky’s alleged reference to Joe Biden as the “big guy” appears independent of the apparent reference to the now-president as the “big guy” by a Hunter Biden business associate during negotiations with Chinese intelligence-linked businessmen. The China-related reference occurred in a May 2017 email not made public until October 2020.
The existence of the Ukraine-related FD-1023 appears to have been revealed to Grassley by whistleblowers in 2022, and Grassley told the Justice Department and FBI back in October to hand over “all records,” including “FD-1023” documents that “reference Mykola Zlochevsky, Hunter Biden, James Biden, and Joe Biden.”
House Republicans said the alleged bribery scheme was related to Joe Biden’s efforts as vice president to pressure the Ukrainian government to fire Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin. Republicans said the FBI form indicated the alleged bribes were aimed at shaking off a corruption investigation.
Amid the threat of being held in contempt of Congress by Rep. James Comer (R-KY) for failing to comply with a subpoena, FBI Director Christopher Wray allowed members of Comer’s House Oversight Committee to review the FD-1023 last Thursday, but that version had significant redactions.
“With respect to the 1023 shown to the House Oversight Committee, from what I’ve been told by folks who have reviewed it, it’s filled with redactions. The document that Comer and I read had maybe two or three half-inch redactions,” Grassley said Monday, adding, “So Director Wray placed redactions on a document that is already unclassified. More than that, the FBI made the Congress review a redacted unclassified document in a classified facility. That goes to show you the disrespect that the FBI has for Congress.”
Burisma became a hot-button issue when President Donald Trump referenced it in a July 2019 call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The call spurred a whistleblower complaint, which sparked Democratic-led impeachment proceedings in the House, where Democrats denied Shokin had truly been investigating Burisma and Republicans argued he had been.
Trump and his Republican allies claim Joe Biden improperly used his position as vice president to pressure Ukraine to fire Shokin to protect his son from an investigation into Burisma. Democrats deny this and argue the focus on Burisma was part of an effort to dirty up Joe Biden.
Joe Biden said the bribery allegations were “a bunch of malarkey” when asked about them Thursday after he first quipped, “Where’s the money? I’m joking.”
Ukrainian officials said in June 2020 that they were offered $5 million in bribes to shut down criminal investigations into Burisma and allow Zlochevsky, who has been living abroad, to return to Ukraine. They said this was unconnected to Joe and Hunter Biden.
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Rep. Matt Gaetz entered the Hunter laptop into the congressional record how long ago ?
This is another teaser, soon , soon , soon , stay tuned , now a word from our MIC / big pharma sponsors. Back to you Hannity , tick-tok
We have tapes , but you can’t hear them because
Be Distracted.
Please do not notice Speaker McCarthy has not been thrown out for the debt ceiling BETRAYAL !
Oh boy, sweater vest has the goods on them.
So what?
Has Congress done anything, and I mean anything to bring this obvious corruption to any kind of justice?
Please.
It’s all so fake and gay.
Over 5 years ago Rep. Louie Golhmer was on radio spouting about demanding some documents from DOJ , bla, bla, bla, ….. nothing
OANN had tapes that they were doing stories on about 3 or 4 years ago. Shortly thereafter they were dropped from most major cable companies. Same shit different day.
Just Sayin’
‘Joe Biden’ tells Sweater Vest Charley to STFU or we pull your ethanol subsidies to Iowa!
Issue resolved……
And now what are you prepared to do?
Great movie.
“He brings a knife to the fight, you brrrring a gun.”
“If you want to find a non rotten apple, avoid the barrel and go right to the trrrree.”
“Hmm. George Stone, eh? What’s your real name?”
-That is my real name, Sir.
“No. What was it before ya changed it?
-Giuseppe…
“Aw, just what I feared. Another stinkin’ wop.”
-Better than you, you stinkin’ Irish pig.
“Oh, I like him. Congratulations, son. You’re now a member of the Feds. A G-man.”
“Well, Georgie boy, you’re a long way from the south side now. We need to know what’s in that journal.”
-Why don’tchoo kiss my ass?
“Who do ya think you’re talkin’ to? You’re muckin’ with the Feds now. We gotta have that information.”
“Wait. If he won’t talk, maybe this guy will. Aw, whatsamatter? Ya can’t talk with a gun in your mouth? Well let me help ye.”
-Aye! oh. Hey! OK. I’m gonna talk. I’ll tell yas any ting ya wanna know!
“Now. Let him speak. But don’t let him clean himself first. Go ahead.”
Mountie: “Mr. Ness! I don’t approve of your methods!”
-Yeah, well, you’re not from Chicago.
-Back off. I got the book keeper. You ain’t got nuthin! We’re gonna walk outta here.”
“You got him?”
-Yeah, I got him.
“Take him.”
He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of theirs to the morgue….
I can hear it now – It’s either Russia or a deep fake
Or just a load of bull💩.
The doc is totally unclassified. They needed to run straight to the media with the unredacted version. Also identify who is the gatekeeper preventing the public from seeing it.
More failure theater.
Well, we know Barr and Wray knew all about it. Who pulled their strings? Two putative Republicans working to stop a Republican President and replace him with a known (to them) criminal Democrat to be a dupe figurehead for what, exactly?
Do not comply. Be ungovernable until rule of law is restored.
Well, more political theater, certain.
But too, it is more blatant exposure of how corrupt and compromised
Edgar’s current regime is, in favor of one side of the aisle, and to the detriment of the other side.
SCIF’s only. No note taking and no cell phones or recording devices allowed. MJT took notes.
Updated redactions on a form, when forced to make it available.
So if anyone still respects the rule of law and the alphabet agencies, robes and beltway bar exam folks
who dabble in it, well, they’re morons. Shakespeare had it right. Until you need one.
Refer back to Martin Armstrong’s post today for more sauce. Orangey in crosshairs today; who next?
As well, be grateful if you’re not caught up in that tangled web they continue weaving.
If trends continue, dissident voices might get served with a subpoena some day down the road.
Uh-oh, looks like they’re fixing to start another investigation into these potential issues of misconduct. I wonder if they’re going to appoint a SPECIAL counsel to investigate these allogations of a possible crime. We’ll find out by no later than 2028. By then, some heads are going to roll for sure.
Anyone remember the old Pace Picante Sauce commercial?
“Get a rope.”
Be sure to vote harder , that’ll fix them. If we just get the right people in there……..
Auntie eagerly awaits the appointment of a “special counsel” to get to the bottom of this corruption. /s
C. Grassley, at 89 years, is another ancient relic who is there to both mock the Lumpen while ensuring the Uniparty continues to rule on behalf of Globohomoshlomo and world-wide hyper-finance crony-Capitalism.
Marionettes they are.
Congress has spent more than 150 years illegally giving more of its (your) power to the executive at an ever increasing pace. They took a diplomat/ambassador and sometime general (the President) and invested him with the power of a King ruling an army of bureaucrats until we are at the point where senior Congressmen and Senators are only “allowed” to see documents in a version heavily redacted by that army of bureaucrats.
The US govt was designed to give PRIMACY to that branch of govt most directly accountable to the people— the Legislature. They’ve given away power they had no authority to give and then use that fact as their excuse for doing nothing. Not one understands and abides by the law of agency.
If Fuck Grassley wants accountability he need only look above his bathroom sink. So, again, we are treated to more theater.
The U.S. government is defunct. Every last person in its employ is living off the backs of the people via outright THEFT. It needs to be disbanded and dissolved.
The only just purpose of any government is the protection of the individual rights of the people. Currently, the US government is THE main threat to individual rights. It hasn’t merely failed in its only purpose, it has become the enemy by its own venality, corruption and power seeking.
But … don’t worry 😉, the people are entertained and like things this way.
Stop obeying the parasites.
@wideawake_media
Couldn’t agree more.
I highly recommend ‘The Most Dangerous Superstition’ by Larken Rose. That book is a total paradigm shifter. An absolute must-read.
When you are taking money from a foreign government to influence GOVERNMENT policy at the highest levels, at what point can you finally call it TREASON??
Remember the book title from a couple of decades back? “None Dare Call It Treason.”
Why Clown World Fears Russia
The piece connecting the war in Ukraine to the Q campaign and the panic across Clown World appears to be the founder of Burisma Holdings, who is now believed to be “an asset of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service”:
This is, as AC has noted, potentially an extremely big deal. What it may signify is that Russia, and therefore China, have all the information that is necessary to expose and destroy Clown World, root and branch. Everything from the Holocaust and the Moon landings to the legitimacy of the Biden administration appears to be fully documented by Russian intelligence, which would mean that Vladimir Putin can unleash chaos throughout the West and undermine every Western government simply by providing the verifiable truth of post-WWII history to the people of Europe and America.
I’ve suspected as much since Putin made a very specific reference to “the Empire of Lies” and the neoclowns reacted in much the same way vampires do to the offer of a garlic-infused shower of holy water coming out of a silver waterspout in the shape of a cross. I also suspect that this may be the basis of the post-2015 “Trump-Russia collusion” narrative that has never made any sense whatsoever in the electoral context provided.
We can only hope and pray that the Russians, and their secret allies, will soon do us the service of telling the rest of us what they already know to be true. All Clown World ever had over Russia was the threat of the US military, and now that threat appears to have been exposed as one that is entirely empty.
Biden is being black mailed by the Ukies, for taking a 5 million dollar bribe, and the American people are stuck paying hundreds billions of dollars in hush money, and Trump is the one being arrested?
One way or another this can’t last. Either China Joe and his corrupt illegitimate, unelected traitorous Regime is toppled, or the US will split into numerous countries.
And either way the Fed Reserve Bank Notes are going to be worthless, very soon.
The proper response would be to prosecute . . .
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Trump.
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Blah Blah Blah goes the uni party that does nothing.
QUICK! Distract!
https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/news-nation/hillary-clinton-rushed-by-ambulance-to-emergency-room
In case it is for real and Satan is calling her home, champagne chilling.
Maybe she heard what Matt Gaetz said and had a “gripper?” Gaetz, an attorney, noted that by Jack Smith mentioning Hitlery in his indictment, he has opened the door for Trump to do a seriously deep dive into her misdeeds, known and unknown in court.
Smith is a shitty attorney. Any competent attorney eats him alive in the court room. What he has is no conscience, no morality, no decency. He is communist filth. He will prosecute anyone with complete knowledge of their innocence solely for the benefit of the Demunist Party. That is why he is always overturned. He is harassment for the enemies and that’s it. A hired goon and little more.
If there were video tapes of Joebama Binbiden and his son Hunter killing puppies and kittens with shotguns, then laughing about it, somehow Trump would get blamed and he’d be the one to get prosecuted. Nope, nothing to see here folks. Ain’t nothing gonna happen to any of the criminal class occupants of DC. It’s one big cesspool of absolute and total corruption.
I have thought about it… for years.
2024 = 1776
2024 = 1984 (on steroids)
FIFY.
Yeah, we have a long long way to go, and I doubt 1776 2.0 ever presents.
More like 1861 2.0, only this time it is all 50 states against DC.
It will likely look more like Rwanda.
So bring these alleged “tapes”. PUT UP or STFU.