Sen. Grassley releases form showing Joe Biden was involved in $10 million Burisma bribery scheme

Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) released a revealing document Thursday describing how an FBI source had informed the bureau about a bombshell bribery scheme involving…wait for it…Joe and Hunter Biden, to the tune of $10 million.

President Joe Biden, who claims he has never had any involvement in his son’s corrupt business dealings, was part of a $10 million bribery scheme to get a Ukrainian Prosecutor fired. National Review reports:

According to an unidentified informant businessman, the founder of Burisma recounted being pressured by then-Vice President Joe Biden to put Biden’s son Hunter on the Ukrainian energy company’s board, and for $10 million in bribes — $5 million each to Joe and Hunter Biden — in order to use Biden’s political influence to force the firing of a Ukrainian prosecutor who was investigating Burisma.

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The FD-1023 form alleging then-Vice President JOE BIDEN was involved in a $5,000,000 bribery scheme with a Burisma executive has been released by @ChuckGrassley.

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The prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, was fired by the Ukrainian government a few months after Vice President Biden, in late 2015, threatened then-Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko that the Obama administration would withhold $1 billion in congressionally approved U.S. funding unless Kyiv fired Shokin. Biden later bragged about the threat in a 2018 interview at the Council on Foreign Relations.

The FBI had been provided all information by the informant, “beginning in 2017.” Senator Grassley and the House Oversight Committee, led by Chairman James Comer, have been pressing the FBI for an explanation of what, if any, follow-up investigation has been done regarding extensively detailed disclosures that implicate now-President Biden in a $10 million bribery scheme (among other corrupt acts) from a CHS with a track-record of reliability.

National Review continues:

Thus far, the FBI and its Justice Department superiors have declined to respond to those inquiries. Burisma’s founder and CEO is Mykola Zlochevsky. The CHS, a businessman, first dealt with him indirectly in the 2015-16 time frame. The CHS was introduced to Burisma executives by an associate, identified as Oleksandr Ostapenko, who accompanied the CHS to a meeting at Burisma headquarters to discuss the company’s acquisition of an American energy firm that would allow them to IPO in the U.S.

During the meeting, Burisma CFO Vadim Pojarskii listed the company’s board of directors, which included the former president and prime minister of Poland as well as Hunter Biden who, he said, was brought on “to protect us, through his dad, from all kinds of problems.”
The CHS then asked why Burisma needed his assistance with the acquisition of a U.S. energy company given Hunter Biden’s involvement, prompting Pojarskii to concede that the younger Biden’s limited intelligence meant he was of little value outside of the influence he could exercise over his father.