Democratic staff on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee sent a memo to committee Democrats giving a play-by-play guide to rebut some of the allegations made in the FD-1023 form that alleges Hunter Biden and then Vice President Joe Biden were involved in a foreign bribery scheme.
In the document, a confidential human source alleges to an FBI informant that both Bidens were paid $5 million by Mykola Zlochevsky, the head of Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company where Hunter Biden sat on the board, to pressure the Ukrainian government to fire Viktor Shokin, a prosecutor who was allegedly investigating Burisma.
The memo points to a 10-page letter from Lev Parnas, a former associate of Rudy Giuliani who was tasked with finding dirt on the Bidens ahead of the 2020 election, urging Comer to stop his investigation into the FD-1023 because it was a "Campaign orchestrated by Giuliani and Trump to dig up dirt on the Bidens, and to spread misinformation."
Zlochevsky told the FBI informant that he paid both Bidens $5 million to deal with the prosecutor, saying, "It costs 5 [million] to pay one Biden, and 5 [million] to another Biden," according to the FD-1023.
"Zlochevsky made some comment that although Hunter Biden 'was stupid, and his dog was smarter,' Zlochevsky needed to keep Hunter Biden so everything will be OK," the informant writes in the tip sheet.
While Biden has bragged in the past about the role he played in getting Shokin ousted, Democrats on the committee point to the fact that a number of Western countries wanted Shokin out and that his probe into Burisma was reportedly dormant at the time of his firing.
"Democrats continue to lie about the FBI's Biden Bribery Record despite public comments from U.S. Attorney Weiss and former Attorney General Barr refuting their claims. Democrats have proven to be untrustworthy in this investigation and it's past time that the media start scrutinizing their claims," the statement reads.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house/oversight-democrats-gop-fbi-bribery-document
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