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In a bombshell development, Republicans say there are audio recordings of then-vice president Joe Biden participating in an international bribery scheme that netted him millions.
Appearing on the Senate floor, Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa confirmed the tapes are real.
The Burisma executive who allegedly paid Biden and his son Hunter Biden kept 17 audio recordings of his conversations of them as an “insurance policy.”
The highly anticipated FBI document shows then-Vice President Joe Biden was allegedly paid $5 million by an executive of the Ukrainian natural gas firm Burisma Holdings.
Biden’s son Hunter was also paid millions while sitting on the board of Burisma.
Notably, Hunter has no job qualifications to work for a Ukrainian gas company, no experience in the energy sector, and no personal or professional ties to Ukraine.
Despite the seriousness of these alleged crimes, no charges have been brought against the Biden family.
A total of nine Biden family members received cash from foreign agents, including President Biden’s grandchildren.
A “highly credible” confidential source told the FBI this information back in June of 2020, but the tip was covered up and hidden.
The executive possesses 15 audio recordings of phone calls between himself and Hunter Biden and two audio recordings of phone calls between himself and then-Vice President Joe Biden.
Grassley said, “With respect to the 1023 shown to that House Oversight Committee, from what I’ve been told by folks who’ve revealed it, is filled with redactions.”
“Now the document that [Comer] and I read had maybe two or three half-inch redactions — not all sentences redacted, as I’m told the document in the SCIF is. So Director [Christopher Wray] placed redactions on a document that’s already unclassified. … More than that, the FBI had Congress review a redacted unclassified document in a classified facility. … Can you believe — redacting an unclassified document? So now, let me assist for the purposes of more transparency on this subject.”
“The 1023 produced to the House Committees redacted [a] reference that [said] the foreign national who allegedly bribed Joe and Hunter Biden allegedly has audio recordings of his conversation, with 17 such recordings.”
“According to the 1023, the foreign national possesses 15 audio recordings of phone calls between him and Hunter Biden. According to the 1023, The foreign national possesses two audio recordings of phone calls between him and then Vice President Joe Biden. These recordings were allegedly kept as a sort of insurance policy for the foreign national in case that he got into a tight spot.”
The FBI initially refused to hand over the information until Republicans regained control of Congress and subpoenaed the document.
The source refers to then-Vice President Joe Biden as “the Big Guy. The Burisma executive “didn’t pay the Big Guy directly.”
The money was funneled to the Biden family through a web of LLCs and individuals.
This reliable confidential human source has been working with the FBI since 2010 and has been paid approximately $200,000 by the bureau.
When Biden was vice president, he admitted to pressuring Ukraine to fire prosecutor Viktor Shokin.
At the time, Shokin was investigating Burisma Holdings.
“I said, ‘You’re not getting the billion. I’m going to be leaving here in,’ I think it was about six hours. I looked at them and said: ‘I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money,’” Biden told then-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.
“Well, son of a b***h, he got fired,” Biden said. “And they put in place someone who was solid at the time.”
Apparently “someone who was solid” really means “someone who won’t investigate politcal corruption and bribery scheme being carried out by the Bidens.”
More on this story via Fox News:
The confidential source further detailed that conversation, suggesting to the Burisma executive that he “pay the Bidens $50,000 each,” to which the Burisma executive replied, it is “not $50,000,” it is “$5 million.”
“$5 million for one Biden, $5 million for the other Biden,” the Burisma executive told the confidential human source, according to a source familiar with the document.
A source familiar said according to the document, the $5 million payments appeared to reference a kind of “retainer” Burisma intended to pay the Bidens to deal with a number of issues, including the investigation led by Shokin. Another source referred to the arrangement as a “pay-to-play” scheme.