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Jim Jordan’s so-called whistleblowers just ADMITTED during a hearing that they were PAID by former top Trump adviser Kash Patel.
Talk about corruption.
GOP “FBI Politicization” Hearing Features Witnesses Paid by Trump Adviser
Surprise, surprise, Republicans’ big investigation into the FBI is a sham.
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Crime of the Century!!Whoops
Jim Jordan’s so-called whistleblowers just ADMITTED during a hearing that they were PAID by former top Trump adviser Kash Patel.
Talk about corruption.
GOP “FBI Politicization” Hearing Features Witnesses Paid by Trump Adviser
Surprise, surprise, Republicans’ big investigation into the FBI is a sham.
Wow!!
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Speaker McCarthy Says FBI Is Ready to Turn Over Damning Document Alleging Criminal Bribery Scheme Involving Joe Biden – Then FBI Tells Him to Pound Sand
Speaker McCarthy Says FBI Is Ready to Turn Over Damning Document Alleging Criminal Bribery Scheme Involving Joe Biden - Then FBI Tells Him to Pound Sand | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft
On Friday, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) wrote the FBI demanding they turn over a document alleging a bribery scheme involving then Vice President Joe Biden.
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Speaker McCarthy Says FBI Is Ready to Turn Over Damning Document Alleging Criminal Bribery Scheme Involving Joe Biden – Then FBI Tells Him to Pound Sand
Wow!!Wow!!
Speaker McCarthy Says FBI Is Ready to Turn Over Damning Document Alleging Criminal Bribery Scheme Involving Joe Biden - Then FBI Tells Him to Pound Sand | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft
On Friday, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) wrote the FBI demanding they turn over a document alleging a bribery scheme involving then Vice President Joe Biden.
Speaker McCarthy Says FBI Is Ready to Turn Over Damning Document Alleging Criminal Bribery Scheme Involving Joe Biden – Then FBI Tells Him to Pound Sand
SHOWDOWN: Dirty FBI has Until Tomorrow to Turn Over Unclassified Document that Ties Joe Biden to $5 Million Bribery Scheme – Or Face Contempt of Congress Hearings
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SHOWDOWN: Dirty FBI has Until Tomorrow to Turn Over Unclassified Document that Ties Joe Biden to $5 Million Bribert Scheme - Or Face Contempt of Congress Hearings | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft
Chairman James Comer (R-KY) and the House Oversight Committee announced last Thursday the Oversight Committee will launch Contempt of Congress proceedings if Chris Wray and the FBI refuse to turn over the incriminating Biden document in 5 (now 4) days.
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Is it just me, or does Wray not act like a scumbag every chance a microphone is out in front of him?
No doubt. I would love to see them throw him in the brig at the house.
Chris Wray jailed? One lawmaker would like to throw FBI chief in Capitol brig for contempt
'Either he needs to comply or there needs to be severe consequences,' Scott Perry said.
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Chris Wray jailed? One lawmaker would like to throw FBI chief in Capitol brig for contempt
'Either he needs to comply or there needs to be severe consequences,' Scott Perry said.By Charlotte Hazard
Updated: May 30, 2023 - 11:28pm
Frustrated the FBI won't produce a key piece of subpoenaed evidence in the Biden family corruption probe, the Republican-led House is making preparations to hold Director Christopher Wray in contempt.
And one lawmaker has a preferred penalty: throwing the FBI boss in the U.S. Capitol's secretive detention jail known as the "the brig."
"We can't press charges. But we certainly can refer charges," Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., the chairman of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, told Just the News on Tuesday. "And if he shows up on Capitol Hill, if he shows up in the House chamber, he can certainly end up in the brig here.
"I think those are harsh words, but we just cannot have this defiance," Perry said during a wide-ranging interview on the "Just the News, No Noise" television show.
The FBI formally refused Tuesday to turn over to Congress an investigative memo alleging a bribery scheme involving President Joe Biden, prompting the chairman of the House Oversight Committee to begin proceedings to hold Wray in contempt.
"Either he needs to comply or there needs to be severe consequences – the most extreme competent consequences that the legislative body can provide for," Perry continued. "That's what needs to happen with an individual like him with his defiance about the truth that the American people deserve and own."
There used to be a cell located in the Capitol basement to hold those in contempt, but it's now gone, according to Roll Call.
“I went to the architect of the Capitol and found out where the old Capitol jail was located. There was at one time a jail here in the Capitol where the Congress could imprison citizens who refused to comply with its subpoenas,” Senate counsel Chuck Ludlam said during a 2019 interview.
Then-Architect of the Capitol George M. White told Ludlam that lots of rooms have actually been used to detain those who didn't comply with subpoena requests.
“Several rooms in the Capitol have evidently been used for detention of offenders," White stated. "They were called ‘Guard Rooms’ and it is not always clear whether those rooms were kept strictly for custody of prisoners or whether they were also used as a guard station,”
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) joked about using the brig to imprison former President Donald Trump's officials who defied Congress in 2019, but ultimately said she wouldn't because it would be "overcrowded."
“We do have a little jail down in the basement of the Capitol, but if we were arresting all of the people in the administration we would have an overcrowded jail situation,” she said during a Washington Post interview. “And I’m not for that.”
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) said he still plans to meet with Wray on Wednesday, but noted that the FBI's refusing to comply with a subpoena is unfortunate.
“Today, the FBI informed the committee that it will not provide the unclassified documents subpoenaed by the committee. The FBI’s decision to stiff-arm Congress and hide this information from the American people is obstructionist and unacceptable," Comer said in a statement.
"While I have a call scheduled with FBI Director Wray tomorrow to discuss his response further, the committee has been clear in its intent to protect congressional oversight authorities and will now be taking steps to hold the FBI director in contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with a lawful subpoena," the statement continued. "Americans deserve the truth, and the Oversight Committee will continue to demand transparency from this nation’s chief law enforcement agency."
FBI Director Wray Admits FD-1023 Biden Bribe Document Exists; Offers Private Viewing to Comer and Grassley; Comer Again Warns of Contempt if Document Not Given to Congress
FBI Director Wray Admits FD-1023 Biden Bribe Document Exists; Offers Private Viewing to Comer and Grassley; Comer Again Warns of Contempt if Document Not Given to Congress | The Gateway Pundit | by Kristinn Taylor
A day after FBI Director Christopher Wray was threatened with contempt of Congress charges after blowing off the May 30 dead to turn over to Congress a subpoenaed FD-1023 FBI document alleging Joe Biden’s involvement in a $5 million bribery scheme with a foreign national when he was vice...
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What a weasel!
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UPDATE: Chris Wray Did Not Admit FBI Had Damning Biden China Bribery Document – Until James Comer Notified Him He Already Had Seen the Filing (VIDEO)
UPDATE: Chris Wray Did Not Admit FBI Had Damning Biden China Bribery Document - Until James Comer Notified Him He Already Had Seen the Filing (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft
Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer joined Maria Bartiromo on Mornings with Maria on Thursday morning.
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BREAKING: FBI Chief Chris Wray Caves to Comer - Agrees to Hand Over Damning Document Detailing China's $5 Million Bribe to Joe Biden! | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft
FBI Director Chris Wray caved to Oversight Chairman James Comer on Friday.
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FBI Director Chris Wray caved to Oversight Chairman James Comer on Friday.
Dirty Chris Wray agreed to hand over the bribery document to congress.
The document details a $5 million CRIMINAL PLOT
Congress probing if FBI used ‘Russian disinformation’ claim to shut down Biden inquiries
FBI produced an intel analysis that lawmakers believe it dubious that suggested Biden family allegations during the 2020 election were Russian disinformation.
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Our looney libs just ignore this stuff with glazed eyes. Its amazing when you think about what happened with the only solitary whistleblower that was treated like God by the left during the first Trump impeachment. We have well over 10 whistleblowers on Biden and his admin and they just blissfully ignore it.
Missing Biden whistleblower breaks silence… I am alive…
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June 2, 2023
Dr. Gal Luff, the Israeli whistleblower who went missing in Cyprus after claiming the Biden administration was out to “bury” him, “is alive and living as a fugitive in an undisclosed location,” according to the New York Post’s Miranda Devine.
Luft is a former Israeli Defense Force colonel, an expert on energy policy and the founder and executive director of the Washington-based Institute for the Analysis of Global Security (IAGS).
He was preparing to reveal damning information about the Biden family’s international business exploits to Congress in February when the Biden Department of Justice had him arrested in Cyprus on multiple charges, including international weapon trafficking charges.
In 2019, Luft reportedly told the FBI about the Biden family’s shady business arrangement with the Chinese state-controlled energy company CEFC, but never heard back from the FBI or prosecutors again until he was arrested in Cyprus.
The whistleblower vanished in April while on bail awaiting extradition to the US on seven charges, which include “five charges relating to the Arms Export Control Act of conspiring to sell Chinese products to the United Arab Emirates, Kenya and Libya, as well as a violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act, and of making a false statement,” the Post reported. His abandoned car was reportedly found by police near the airport.
Luft told Devine that he was forced to skip bail because he is a victim of political persecution by Biden’s Department of Justice to protect the Biden family.
“The chances of me getting a fair trial in Washington are virtually zero,” he said in a call from an undisclosed foreign country. “I had to do what I had to do.”
He declined to explain how he escaped Cyprus because he didn’t “want to get people in trouble.”
“I was charged for a thought crime,” he said in reference to the gun-running allegations, which date from email correspondence five years ago. “I was asked by a bona fide arms dealer, an Israeli friend, to inquire with a company I knew if they had an item and what would be the price of an item. This is where the conspiracy ended. No follow-up, no money, no brokering activity.”
Luft said the date of the extradition order, Nov. 1, 2022—seven days before the midterm elections—was suspicious because Republicans were expected to win control of the House and start investigations into of Biden family’s foreign influence peddling operations.
“When it was clear the Republicans are going to win the House or the Senate, all of a sudden comes [GOP Rep. James] Comer and [GOP Rep. Jim] Jordan and the game is changing. There will be questions and subpoenas and investigations [so] they [the administration] have to discredit me. I never thought of coming forward. Through 2020 I sat quiet like a fish,” he said. “I didn’t want to get caught up in this game, but when they arrested me, I had no choice but to blow it up.”
On Feb. 18, after he was detained at the Cyprus airport, Luft tweeted: “I’ve been arrested in Cyprus on a politically motivated extradition request by the U.S. … claiming I’m an arms dealer. It would be funny if it weren’t tragic. I’ve never been an arms dealer. DOJ is trying to bury me to protect Joe, Jim & Hunter Biden.” The 56-year-old also threatened to “name names.”
As an international energy and security expert, Luft had reportedly worked with CEFC-USA—the nonprofit arm of the Chinese energy conglomerate CEFC China—between 2015 and 2018, the same period CEFC-China began its influence operations with the Biden family.
He reportedly organized conferences in the United States, Hong Kong and China and developed close personal ties with several CEFC-USA senior officials, including the chairman of CEFC, Ye Jianming and his deputy Patrick Ho. Jianming and Ho reportedly began their outreach to the Bidens in 2015, while Joe Biden was serving as vice president.
After Ho’s conviction, Luft contacted the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York from Israel to offer a voluntary interview or “proffer” meeting and the parties settled on Brussels as neutral territory for the meeting.
Luft showed the Post a letter arranging the Brussels “proffer” meeting, signed March 25, 2019, by Geoffrey Berman, then the US attorney for the Southern District of New York.
“We are writing to advise you that the US Attorney’s Office for the SDNY will not arrest or cause to be arrested your client, Gal Luft, during the time that he is in Belgium between approximately Tuesday, March 26, 2019 and Monday, April 1, 2019, in connection with his attendance at meetings with this office on March 28 and 29, 2019,” writes Berman to Luft lawyer Robert Henoch.
Devine noted that the allegations against Luft are concerning, but so are the allegations of another Biden regime coverup.
A Republican member of the House Judiciary Committee expressed concern on Fox News’ “Mornings with Maria” that a whistleblower had to go into hiding to escape political persecution from the Biden DOJ.
“These whistleblowers are very important, and the information that they have is very important,” Rep. Ben Cline (R-Va.) told Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo Friday.
“I’m glad to hear [Luft] is at an undisclosed location but they shouldn’t be in an undisclosed location to avoid intimidation by or own federal agencies,” he added.
“As we continue to investigate the Biden family’s shady business dealings, we must ensure that those who come forward & the information they provide are protected,” Cline tweeted.
Missing Biden whistleblower breaks silence… I am alive…
Missing Israeli Whistleblower Living as Fugitive in Undisclosed Location › American Greatness
Dr. Gal Luff, the Israeli whistleblower who went missing in Cyprus after claiming the Biden administration was out to “bury” him, “is alive and living as a fugitive in an undisclosed location,”…
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Missing Israeli Whistleblower Living as Fugitive in Undisclosed Location
By Debra HeineJune 2, 2023
Dr. Gal Luff, the Israeli whistleblower who went missing in Cyprus after claiming the Biden administration was out to “bury” him, “is alive and living as a fugitive in an undisclosed location,” according to the New York Post’s Miranda Devine.
Luft is a former Israeli Defense Force colonel, an expert on energy policy and the founder and executive director of the Washington-based Institute for the Analysis of Global Security (IAGS).
He was preparing to reveal damning information about the Biden family’s international business exploits to Congress in February when the Biden Department of Justice had him arrested in Cyprus on multiple charges, including international weapon trafficking charges.
In 2019, Luft reportedly told the FBI about the Biden family’s shady business arrangement with the Chinese state-controlled energy company CEFC, but never heard back from the FBI or prosecutors again until he was arrested in Cyprus.
The whistleblower vanished in April while on bail awaiting extradition to the US on seven charges, which include “five charges relating to the Arms Export Control Act of conspiring to sell Chinese products to the United Arab Emirates, Kenya and Libya, as well as a violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act, and of making a false statement,” the Post reported. His abandoned car was reportedly found by police near the airport.
Luft told Devine that he was forced to skip bail because he is a victim of political persecution by Biden’s Department of Justice to protect the Biden family.
“The chances of me getting a fair trial in Washington are virtually zero,” he said in a call from an undisclosed foreign country. “I had to do what I had to do.”
He declined to explain how he escaped Cyprus because he didn’t “want to get people in trouble.”
“I was charged for a thought crime,” he said in reference to the gun-running allegations, which date from email correspondence five years ago. “I was asked by a bona fide arms dealer, an Israeli friend, to inquire with a company I knew if they had an item and what would be the price of an item. This is where the conspiracy ended. No follow-up, no money, no brokering activity.”
Luft said the date of the extradition order, Nov. 1, 2022—seven days before the midterm elections—was suspicious because Republicans were expected to win control of the House and start investigations into of Biden family’s foreign influence peddling operations.
“When it was clear the Republicans are going to win the House or the Senate, all of a sudden comes [GOP Rep. James] Comer and [GOP Rep. Jim] Jordan and the game is changing. There will be questions and subpoenas and investigations [so] they [the administration] have to discredit me. I never thought of coming forward. Through 2020 I sat quiet like a fish,” he said. “I didn’t want to get caught up in this game, but when they arrested me, I had no choice but to blow it up.”
On Feb. 18, after he was detained at the Cyprus airport, Luft tweeted: “I’ve been arrested in Cyprus on a politically motivated extradition request by the U.S. … claiming I’m an arms dealer. It would be funny if it weren’t tragic. I’ve never been an arms dealer. DOJ is trying to bury me to protect Joe, Jim & Hunter Biden.” The 56-year-old also threatened to “name names.”
As an international energy and security expert, Luft had reportedly worked with CEFC-USA—the nonprofit arm of the Chinese energy conglomerate CEFC China—between 2015 and 2018, the same period CEFC-China began its influence operations with the Biden family.
He reportedly organized conferences in the United States, Hong Kong and China and developed close personal ties with several CEFC-USA senior officials, including the chairman of CEFC, Ye Jianming and his deputy Patrick Ho. Jianming and Ho reportedly began their outreach to the Bidens in 2015, while Joe Biden was serving as vice president.
On Nov. 18, 2017, Ho was arrested in the US on bribery and money-laundering charges. He was convicted and sentenced March 25, 2019, to three years in prison, and then deported.
After Ho’s conviction, Luft contacted the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York from Israel to offer a voluntary interview or “proffer” meeting and the parties settled on Brussels as neutral territory for the meeting.
Luft showed the Post a letter arranging the Brussels “proffer” meeting, signed March 25, 2019, by Geoffrey Berman, then the US attorney for the Southern District of New York.
“We are writing to advise you that the US Attorney’s Office for the SDNY will not arrest or cause to be arrested your client, Gal Luft, during the time that he is in Belgium between approximately Tuesday, March 26, 2019 and Monday, April 1, 2019, in connection with his attendance at meetings with this office on March 28 and 29, 2019,” writes Berman to Luft lawyer Robert Henoch.
“They were sitting on all the information. No new information as needed after they had the laptop plus my proffer yet they wasted another year and did nothing so … now there is a guy who can shed light on the cover-up and they arrest him.”
Devine noted that the allegations against Luft are concerning, but so are the allegations of another Biden regime coverup.
A Republican member of the House Judiciary Committee expressed concern on Fox News’ “Mornings with Maria” that a whistleblower had to go into hiding to escape political persecution from the Biden DOJ.
“These whistleblowers are very important, and the information that they have is very important,” Rep. Ben Cline (R-Va.) told Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo Friday.
“I’m glad to hear [Luft] is at an undisclosed location but they shouldn’t be in an undisclosed location to avoid intimidation by or own federal agencies,” he added.
“As we continue to investigate the Biden family’s shady business dealings, we must ensure that those who come forward & the information they provide are protected,” Cline tweeted.
Comer: FBI Confirmed the Document Alleging Biden Engaged in $5 Million Bribery Scheme is From Highly Credible Informant
Comer: FBI Confirmed the Document Alleging Biden Engaged in $5 Million Bribery Scheme is From Highly Credible Informant | The Gateway Pundit | by Cristina Laila
House Oversight Chairman James Comer on Monday said the FBI AGAIN refused to hand over the Biden bribery document.
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'Highly Credible' Source Reveals FBI Election Interference Scandal
More important to America's future than unearthing Biden family corruption is uncovering corrupt bureaucrats who violate the rule of law.
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‘Highly Credible’ Source Reveals Scandal Bigger Than Biden Bribery: FBI Election Interference
More important to America’s future than unearthing Biden family corruption is uncovering corrupt bureaucrats who violate the rule of law.
Who at the FBI said this and can you show the exact quote? This reeks of a distraction from the bill for Trump's mountain of corruption coming due. The lies you people tell yourselves SMH
You love unnamed sources when its stuff about Trump so dont even bother with this crap.
Why would I be nervous? We've had 3 + years of bombshell allegations and they never amount to anything - just a bunch of insinuations to distract from Trump's mountain of "actual" corruption.
Comer even admitted that all his bombastic charges were intended to boost Trump's poll numbers and he still hasn't shown any facts that connect Biden to any crimes and I don't expect that to change.
if it does, so be it - a crime is a crime is a crime, no matter who commits it but to this point it's just been a bunch of sheep crying wolf 🐏
What he doesn't understand is that none of us who lean left on this site would have any issue whatsoever with prosecution and removal of there are facts, evidence and it is proven in court. I don't care who it is, if they are guilty they need to be gone.
Stark difference between folks like @TigerGrowls who will defend and protect Donald Trump and the right no matter what facts are shown. Somehow it's never Trump's fault, he was framed.
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Joe Biden bribery allegations involve Ukraine, first raised with FBI in 2017, key investigator says
Informant was deemed reliable enough to be paid $200,000 by bureau over several years.
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Joe Biden bribery allegations involve Ukraine, first raised with FBI in 2017, key investigator says
Informant was deemed reliable enough to be paid $200,000 by bureau over several years.By John Solomon
Updated: June 6, 2023 - 8:09pm
Allegations that Joe Biden partook in a $5 million bribery scheme involve Ukraine where his son scored a lucrative energy job and were first presented to the FBI by a reliable and well-paid informant back in 2017, House Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer told Just the News on Tuesday evening.
Comer made the bombshell revelation just a day after reviewing an FBI FD-1023 form that memorialized the informant’s allegations, and two days before he plans to hold a vote in Congress to hold FBI Director Christopher Wray in contempt for failing to provide a copy to his committee as demanded by a subpoena. He said the version of the informant report he was allowed to review by Wray had about 10% of information redacted and made clear the allegations were first reported to the FBI back in 2017 as Donald Trump was beginning his term as president.
“Yes, it is Ukraine,” Comer told the Just the News, No Noise television show when asked what country the alleged bribery involved. “This form 1023 involves a business person from Ukraine, who allegedly sent a bribe, a substantial bribe to then Vice President Joe Biden.”
Asked whether the allegation involved the Ukrainian oligarch Mykola Zlochevsky, whose Burisma Holdings energy firm first hired Hunter Biden into a lucrative board and consulting job in 2014 when Joe Biden was vice president, Comer carefully demurred. “I probably better punt on that question. The name was redacted,” the powerful House committee chairman answered.
But Comer said markings on the document he was shown – including footnotes – made clear the informant first provided the bribery allegations to the FBI in 2017 and then again one more time before he raised them a third time in the June 2020 informant report
“This first started in 2017,” he said, citing footnotes in the informant report he reviewed that listed two prior reports. “There are two notes, or footnotes, whatever you want to call them. They listed them as notes. I will say footnotes for better explanation, that reference 2017. And it was either 2018 or 2019. So this wasn't the first time that the informant had mentioned a bribery scheme pertaining to Joe Biden to the FBI.
Comer’s disclosures came the same day that his colleague in the Senate, Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, revealed the FBI informant who provided the intelligence was deemed so credible and valuable that he was paid $200,000 by the bureau over several years. The comments by the two GOP lawmakers pushed back on Democrat claims that the allegations were old, disproven or tied to an effort by attorney Rudy Giuliani to investigate the Bidens’ Ukraine ties that led to Trump’s first impeachment in 2019.
“Partisan media, most likely in conjunction with the Biden FBI, have misleadingly reported the 1023 is from a tranche of information provided by Rudy Giuliani. News reports last week dispel that notion and make clear the 1023 information that we request is independent of Giuliani,” Grassley stated in a speech given on the Senate floor.
“Those news reports also show that the source who formed the basis of the 1023 is a long-serving FBI source. The source reportedly received numerous validations from the FBI. The source reportedly operated even during the Obama administration. Based on what I’ve been told about yesterday’s meeting, the FBI didn’t contradict these findings,”
“Today, I can say that based upon unclassified and legally protected whistleblower disclosures the FBI source in the 1023 has been paid at least two-hundred thousand dollars by the FBI since the source was opened and operational,” he added. “High dollar payments obviously mean the FBI believes the source to be credible and reputable.”
Comer said the informant's core allegation is a Ukrainian businessman was to pay $5 million to the Biden family in return for a U.S. policy decision that Joe Biden could impact. He said his investigators have not yet found any money directly to the current president but they are "following the money" through numerous limited liability corporations and bank accounts and have begun a search for off-shore accounts as well.
"When you first read about it, it's hard to believe," he said. "It's hard to believe that a vice president of the United States would try to take a bribe from a from a foreign national, in a company in a country that's, at the time not noted for anything other than a lot of corruption, and then asked that the money be sent through shell companies and various banks to launder it to where no one would know about it," he said.
Comer said he has strong reason to believe the FBI never properly investigated the Biden bribery allegations, matching a pattern he also saw when the Obama Treasury Department began receiving suspicious activity reports involving transactions associated with Hunter Biden and his associates but did little to investigate them.
“I think what we're gonna find out is the same thing we found out in the Treasury Department with the Suspicious Activity Reports,” he said. “Once you get in there, there's a whole lot more of them than what was previously reported. And this particular (1023) form we want is very important. But I can already tell from reading the form, there are other forms, as well. So we don't know how many form 1023s are pertaining to Biden-bribery.
Grassley suggested the FBI may have ditched the Biden bribery allegations based on an intelligence analysis by FBI analyst Brian Auten in summer 2020 suggesting there was a Russian disinformation campaign making such allegations. Just the News first reported that possibility in a story Monday.
“Did the FBI follow normal investigative process and procedure? Or did they try to sweep it under the rug?” the senator asked. “For example, did the FBI try to improperly use the August 2020 Brian Auten assessment to shut down the 1023 reporting by falsely labeling it disinformation? "
The bureau told Comer on Monday the allegations in the bribery memo are part of an ongoing but unspecified investigation. The lawmaker said he was suspect of that claim. “My theory is they never investigated the claim to begin with, for whatever reason,” he said.
Comer said he hopes the contempt vote slated for Thursday will “send a message to the FBI if they don't comply with my subpoena in the next 48 hours. And hopefully, from that point on, we can we can start having a better level of cooperation with the FBI.
Smoking gun!! Its all connected from way back before the Trump 1st term. I expect Biden to claim dementia before this is over. Either that or dems will 25th amendment him and hope it gets dropped at that point. Biden pardoning himself and his family is also a possibility. I would say odds of an impeachment trial in 24 are over 50% at this time. The dems will counter it with the phony Trump trials of course.
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By John Solomon
Updated: June 6, 2023 - 11:27pm
If House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer’s sleuthing turns out to be right, the FBI harbored a deep, dark secret through the first Trump impeachment, the Hunter Biden laptop saga and the 2020 election fury. The secret: that a validated and well-paid informant raised concerns all the way back in 2017 that Joe Biden was involved in a $5 million bribery scheme involving Ukraine.
The question emerging now is did America’s most famous crime-fighting agency deep-six the allegation or dismiss it as “Russian disinformation” without thoroughly probing it.
Comer made the bombshell revelation Tuesday night in an interview with Just the News, just a day after reviewing an FBI FD-1023 form that memorialized the informant’s allegations, and two days before he plans to hold a vote in Congress to hold FBI Director Christopher Wray in contempt for failing to provide a copy to his committee as demanded by a subpoena.
He said the version of the informant report he was allowed to review by Wray had about 10% of information redacted and made clear the allegations were first reported to the Federal Bureau of Investigations back in 2017 as Donald Trump was beginning his term as president.
“Yes, it is Ukraine,” Comer told the Just the News, No Noise television show when asked what country the alleged bribery involved. “This form 1023 involves a business person from Ukraine, who allegedly sent a bribe, a substantial bribe to then-Vice President Joe Biden.”
Asked whether the allegation involved the Ukrainian oligarch Mykola Zlochevsky, whose Burisma Holdings energy firm first hired Hunter Biden into a lucrative board and consulting job in 2014 when father Joe Biden was vice president, Comer carefully demurred.
“I probably better punt on that question. The name was redacted,” the powerful House committee chairman answered.
But Comer said markings on the document he was shown – including footnotes – made clear the informant first provided the bribery allegations to the FBI in 2017, then again one more time before he raised them a third time in the June 2020 informant report
“This first started in 2017,” he said, citing footnotes in the informant report he reviewed that listed two prior reports. “There are two notes, or footnotes, whatever you want to call them. They listed them as notes. I will say footnotes for better explanation, that reference 2017. And it was either 2018 or 2019. So this wasn't the first time that the informant had mentioned a bribery scheme pertaining to Joe Biden to the FBI."
A government official said the informant’s first disclosure of Biden allegations came in March 2017.
Comer’s disclosures came the same day that his colleague in the Senate, Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, revealed the FBI informant who provided the intelligence was deemed so credible and valuable that he was paid $200,000 by the bureau over several years. The comments by the two GOP lawmakers pushed back on Democrat claims that the allegations were old, disproven or tied to an effort by attorney Rudy Giuliani to investigate the Bidens’ Ukraine ties that led to Trump’s first impeachment in 2019.
“Partisan media, most likely in conjunction with the Biden FBI, have misleadingly reported the 1023 is from a tranche of information provided by Rudy Giuliani. News reports last week dispel that notion and make clear the 1023 information that we request is independent of Giuliani,” Grassley stated in a speech given on the Senate floor.
“Those news reports also show that the source who formed the basis of the 1023 is a long-serving FBI source. The source reportedly received numerous validations from the FBI. The source reportedly operated even during the Obama administration. Based on what I’ve been told about yesterday’s meeting, the FBI didn’t contradict these findings.”
“Today, I can say that based upon unclassified and legally protected whistleblower disclosures the FBI source in the 1023 has been paid at least $200,000 by the FBI since the source was opened and operational,” he also said. “High dollar payments obviously mean the FBI believes the source to be credible and reputable.”
Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, Burisma and Zlochevsky have all denied wrongdoing over the years, though Hunter Biden and his lawyers have acknowledged he is under criminal investigation for tax matters and belatedly paid more than $2 million in late taxes and penalties. The presidential son has said he expect to be cleared by any investigation.
Comer said the informant's core allegation is a Ukrainian businessman was to pay $5 million to the Biden family in return for a U.S. policy decision that Joe Biden could impact. He said his investigators have not yet found any money going directly to the current president but they are "following the money" through numerous limited liability corporations and bank accounts and have begun to search for off-shore accounts.
"When you first read about it, it's hard to believe," he said. "It's hard to believe that a vice president of the United States would try to take a bribe from a foreign national, in a company in a country that's at the time not noted for anything other than a lot of corruption, and then asked that the money be sent through shell companies and various banks to launder it to where no one would know about it."
Comer said he has strong reason to believe the FBI never properly investigated the Biden bribery allegations, matching a pattern he also saw when the Obama Treasury Department began receiving suspicious activity reports involving transactions associated with Hunter Biden and his associates but did little to investigate them.
“I think what we're gonna find out is the same thing we found out in the Treasury Department with the Suspicious Activity Reports,” he said. “Once you get in there, there's a whole lot more of them than what was previously reported. And this particular (1023) form we want is very important. But I can already tell from reading the form, there are other forms, as well. So we don't know how many form 1023s are pertaining to Biden-bribery."
Grassley suggested the FBI may have ditched the Biden bribery allegations based on an intelligence analysis by FBI analyst Brian Auten in summer 2020 suggesting there was a Russian disinformation campaign making such allegations.
Just the News first reported that possibility in a story Monday.
“Did the FBI follow normal investigative process and procedure? Or did they try to sweep it under the rug?” the senator asked. “For example, did the FBI try to improperly use the August 2020 Brian Auten assessment to shut down the 1023 reporting by falsely labeling it disinformation?"
The bureau told Comer on Monday the allegations in the bribery memo are part of an ongoing but unspecified investigation. The lawmaker said he was suspect of that claim.
“My theory is they never investigated the claim to begin with, for whatever reason,” he said.
Comer said he hopes the contempt vote slated for Thursday will “send a message to the FBI if they don't comply with my subpoena in the next 48 hours. And hopefully, from that point on, we can we can start having a better level of cooperation with the FBI."
FBI harbored Biden allegations since 2017, through impeachment, election, lawmaker says
Rep. Comer makes blockbuster revelation on eve of contempt vote, Sen. Grassley discloses informant reliable enough to be paid $200k
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FBI harbored Biden allegations since 2017, through impeachment, election, lawmaker says
Rep. Comer makes blockbuster revelation on eve of contempt vote, Sen. Grassley discloses informant reliable enough to be paid $200kBy John Solomon
Updated: June 6, 2023 - 11:27pm
If House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer’s sleuthing turns out to be right, the FBI harbored a deep, dark secret through the first Trump impeachment, the Hunter Biden laptop saga and the 2020 election fury. The secret: that a validated and well-paid informant raised concerns all the way back in 2017 that Joe Biden was involved in a $5 million bribery scheme involving Ukraine.
The question emerging now is did America’s most famous crime-fighting agency deep-six the allegation or dismiss it as “Russian disinformation” without thoroughly probing it.
Comer made the bombshell revelation Tuesday night in an interview with Just the News, just a day after reviewing an FBI FD-1023 form that memorialized the informant’s allegations, and two days before he plans to hold a vote in Congress to hold FBI Director Christopher Wray in contempt for failing to provide a copy to his committee as demanded by a subpoena.
He said the version of the informant report he was allowed to review by Wray had about 10% of information redacted and made clear the allegations were first reported to the Federal Bureau of Investigations back in 2017 as Donald Trump was beginning his term as president.
“Yes, it is Ukraine,” Comer told the Just the News, No Noise television show when asked what country the alleged bribery involved. “This form 1023 involves a business person from Ukraine, who allegedly sent a bribe, a substantial bribe to then-Vice President Joe Biden.”
Asked whether the allegation involved the Ukrainian oligarch Mykola Zlochevsky, whose Burisma Holdings energy firm first hired Hunter Biden into a lucrative board and consulting job in 2014 when father Joe Biden was vice president, Comer carefully demurred.
“I probably better punt on that question. The name was redacted,” the powerful House committee chairman answered.
But Comer said markings on the document he was shown – including footnotes – made clear the informant first provided the bribery allegations to the FBI in 2017, then again one more time before he raised them a third time in the June 2020 informant report
“This first started in 2017,” he said, citing footnotes in the informant report he reviewed that listed two prior reports. “There are two notes, or footnotes, whatever you want to call them. They listed them as notes. I will say footnotes for better explanation, that reference 2017. And it was either 2018 or 2019. So this wasn't the first time that the informant had mentioned a bribery scheme pertaining to Joe Biden to the FBI."
A government official said the informant’s first disclosure of Biden allegations came in March 2017.
Comer’s disclosures came the same day that his colleague in the Senate, Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, revealed the FBI informant who provided the intelligence was deemed so credible and valuable that he was paid $200,000 by the bureau over several years. The comments by the two GOP lawmakers pushed back on Democrat claims that the allegations were old, disproven or tied to an effort by attorney Rudy Giuliani to investigate the Bidens’ Ukraine ties that led to Trump’s first impeachment in 2019.
“Partisan media, most likely in conjunction with the Biden FBI, have misleadingly reported the 1023 is from a tranche of information provided by Rudy Giuliani. News reports last week dispel that notion and make clear the 1023 information that we request is independent of Giuliani,” Grassley stated in a speech given on the Senate floor.
“Those news reports also show that the source who formed the basis of the 1023 is a long-serving FBI source. The source reportedly received numerous validations from the FBI. The source reportedly operated even during the Obama administration. Based on what I’ve been told about yesterday’s meeting, the FBI didn’t contradict these findings.”
“Today, I can say that based upon unclassified and legally protected whistleblower disclosures the FBI source in the 1023 has been paid at least $200,000 by the FBI since the source was opened and operational,” he also said. “High dollar payments obviously mean the FBI believes the source to be credible and reputable.”
Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, Burisma and Zlochevsky have all denied wrongdoing over the years, though Hunter Biden and his lawyers have acknowledged he is under criminal investigation for tax matters and belatedly paid more than $2 million in late taxes and penalties. The presidential son has said he expect to be cleared by any investigation.
Comer said the informant's core allegation is a Ukrainian businessman was to pay $5 million to the Biden family in return for a U.S. policy decision that Joe Biden could impact. He said his investigators have not yet found any money going directly to the current president but they are "following the money" through numerous limited liability corporations and bank accounts and have begun to search for off-shore accounts.
"When you first read about it, it's hard to believe," he said. "It's hard to believe that a vice president of the United States would try to take a bribe from a foreign national, in a company in a country that's at the time not noted for anything other than a lot of corruption, and then asked that the money be sent through shell companies and various banks to launder it to where no one would know about it."
Comer said he has strong reason to believe the FBI never properly investigated the Biden bribery allegations, matching a pattern he also saw when the Obama Treasury Department began receiving suspicious activity reports involving transactions associated with Hunter Biden and his associates but did little to investigate them.
“I think what we're gonna find out is the same thing we found out in the Treasury Department with the Suspicious Activity Reports,” he said. “Once you get in there, there's a whole lot more of them than what was previously reported. And this particular (1023) form we want is very important. But I can already tell from reading the form, there are other forms, as well. So we don't know how many form 1023s are pertaining to Biden-bribery."
Grassley suggested the FBI may have ditched the Biden bribery allegations based on an intelligence analysis by FBI analyst Brian Auten in summer 2020 suggesting there was a Russian disinformation campaign making such allegations.
Just the News first reported that possibility in a story Monday.
“Did the FBI follow normal investigative process and procedure? Or did they try to sweep it under the rug?” the senator asked. “For example, did the FBI try to improperly use the August 2020 Brian Auten assessment to shut down the 1023 reporting by falsely labeling it disinformation?"
The bureau told Comer on Monday the allegations in the bribery memo are part of an ongoing but unspecified investigation. The lawmaker said he was suspect of that claim.
“My theory is they never investigated the claim to begin with, for whatever reason,” he said.
Comer said he hopes the contempt vote slated for Thursday will “send a message to the FBI if they don't comply with my subpoena in the next 48 hours. And hopefully, from that point on, we can we can start having a better level of cooperation with the FBI."
Marjorie Taylor Greene reveals contents of Biden bribery doc
At issue is Ukrainian oil company Burisma, which was facing an investigation from Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin at the time.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene reveals contents of Biden bribery doc
At issue is Ukrainian oil company Burisma, which was facing an investigation from Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin at the time.By Ben Whedon
Updated: June 8, 2023 - 5:44pm
Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Thursday revealed the contents of a document detailing an alleged bribery scheme involving President Joe Biden.
After weeks of resistance, the FBI finally permitted the members of the House Oversight Committee to view the form FD-1023 which includes allegations from a confidential human source detailing the alleged pay-to-play scheme.
At issue is Ukrainian oil company Burisma, which was facing an investigation from Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin in 2016. The company hired Hunter Biden to "make the problems go away," Greene said. "That’s what they specifically said."
"[Burisma's owner] also said that he paid $5 million to one Biden and he paid $5 million to another Biden," Greene continued. "And it was all a bribery to get Shokin fired and end the investigation into Burisma."
Greene indicated that the Burisma owner retained records of the payments to the Bidens.
Viktor Shokin was removed from his post in 2016.
The Georgia Republican vowed to continue pursuing the matter and said she had "high expectations" that the FBI would continue cooperating with the House. She did, however, lament that the FBI had not permitted a public release of the FD-1023.
Do not forget we have video evidence of dumb@$$ joey bragging about his crime. Keep in mind wtf does the us vp have to do with or should give a crap about a Ukrainian prosecutor?
