(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Sources close to the FBI have come forward to confirm that key aspects of the controversial informant file, alleging a bribery scheme involving President Joe Biden and a Burisma executive, were corroborated by the FBI.
According to the Federalist, the Pittsburgh FBI office briefed U.S. District Attorney David Weiss of Delaware and confirmed certain information gathered by a highly credible confidential human source’s investigation into an alleged $5 million bribe that Biden purportedly received.
The damning report stated that the “Pittsburgh FBI office had corroborated several details contained in the FD-1023 as part of the intake process that former Attorney General William Barr established before the election under the leadership of the Western District of Pennsylvania’s then-U.S. Attorney Scott Brady.”
One of the verified pieces of information includes the travel records of a confidential human source. The report specified, “Following the late June 2020 interview with the CHS, the Pittsburgh FBI office obtained travel records for the CHS, and those records confirmed the CHS had traveled to the locales detailed in the FD-1023 during the relevant time period.” The travel dates mentioned indicated potential trips to Ukraine either in late 2015 or early 2016.
As widely reported, the allegation suggests that a Burisma executive paid $5 million each to Hunter Biden and then-Vice President Joe Biden in 2015 to shield them from a corruption investigation led by Viktor Shokin, the then-prosecutor general of Ukraine.
In response to the emerging information, Biden denied on Monday ever being involved in business dealings with his son. This new assertion, however, directly contradicts years of claims that he had “never spoken” to Hunter about his foreign dealings.
White House @PressSec says Biden "was never in business with his son" but does not actually say whether he was put on speakerphone when Hunter was conducting business and introduced to partners.
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) July 24, 2023
The new information represents a partial blow to the Democratic Party and Biden’s allies who had dismissed the informant file, known as an “FD-1023,” as containing false information originally promoted by former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani without evidence.
House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jamie Raskin, D-Md., asserted that the allegations in the file had been debunked years ago by the Trump-led DOJ. However, former Attorney General Bill Barr, known for his opposition to Trump, countered Raskin’s claims, stating that the information did not originate with Giuliani and was referred to the Delaware district attorney for further investigation.
