FBI redacted most of additional Informant files in Biden Bribery Scheme

FBI redacted most of additional Informant files in Biden Bribery Scheme

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer not a happy camper

NEW YORK POST

WASHINGTON — House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer said Tuesday that he read two additional FBI informant files related to an alleged $10 million bribery scheme involving President Biden and first son Hunter Biden — but that more than half of the content was redacted.

Comer (R-Ky.) said that it was “a total waste of my time” to review FD-1023 files provided by the FBI at a secure reading room at the Capitol because the March and December 2017 files were so heavily blacked out.

The Oversight chairman read the files just hours after the first son formalized a plea deal with Delaware US Attorney David Weiss for a probation-only plea deal to two misdemeanor tax fraud counts and a felony firearms count related to lying about his drug use, which can be expunged after two years.

Comer said he was alarmed by Weiss saying in a public statement that his office’s investigation is “ongoing” — despite Hunter’s legal team saying his legal jeopardy is “resolved” — noting that the Biden administration previously cited the “ongoing” investigation by Weiss to limit document production to Congress.

James Comer said Tuesday that he read two additional FBI informant files related to an alleged $10 million bribery scheme involving Joe and Hunter Biden.  AP

“I need to know what the US attorney meant by this is an ‘ongoing’ investigation because the reason the FBI and the Treasury Department won’t give me all of the evidence of wrongdoing by the Bidens is because they say it is part of an ongoing investigation,” Comer told reporters.

“So is it a real ongoing investigation or is this just an attempt to obstruct and block our committee from providing oversight? That’s a very important line in what [Weiss] presented to the American people today and nobody knows what that means.”

The top Democrat on the Oversight Committee, Rep. Jamie Raskin, also read the 2017 documents Tuesday and told reporters “they’re not relevant” to the allegation that Joe and Hunter Biden accepted $5 million apiece to do the bidding of Mykola Zlochevsky, the owner of Ukrainian gas company Burisma, which separately paid Hunter Biden up to $1 million per year to serve on its board from 2014-2019.

A top Democrat said the documents aren’t relevant to the accusations against Biden.  AP

Raskin (D-Md.) declined to answer The Post’s question about whether President Biden’s bank records are needed to definitively prove or disprove the allegation.

“I’m not going to do any more interviews,” Raskin replied. “I’ve got a place to get.”

Comer said that the FBI brought two 2017 files referenced in a June 2020 informant document that committee members already read, but failed to bring a 2018 file that was referenced in a footnote. The earlier documents reportedly prompted the FBI to re-interview its source in June 2020 about a prior reference he made to the Bidens receiving bribes.

“In the original 1023 there were two footnotes, that’s how we knew there were additional 1023s. One of them was referencing 2017 and one of them was referring to 2017,” Comer said.

“I asked, ‘Where’s the one in 2018?’ And they would talk about it.”

One of the 2017 informant files “referenced Hunter Biden and Burisma — there was one line that wasn’t redacted about Hunter Biden and Burisma,” Comer said.

“I don’t know what the US attorney looked at, but we’re going to do a very thorough investigation,” Comer said, adding he would demand that the FBI produce the 2018 file and unredacted content in the 2017 documents.

“Our investigation is of Joe Biden, it always has been… this is still an investigation of Joe Biden,” said the Oversight Committee chairman.

“The president’s son obviously is a person of interest in the investigation. We believe that we have already brought out overwhelming evidence that would suggest money laundering, wire fraud, racketeering, being an unregistered foreign agent — very serious crimes that for whatever reason weren’t dealt with in the plea agreement today.”

Hunter Biden formalized a plea deal with Delaware US Attorney David Weiss for a probation-only plea deal to two misdemeanor tax fraud counts and a felony firearms count related to lying about his drug use.  REUTERS

Comer said that he’s aware of reports based on documents from Hunter’s abandoned laptop regarding a Maltese bank account opened by a Burisma executive at roughly the same time as the bribery allegations were first made.

“We’re looking into that,” Comer said of the Maltese bank. ‘We know exactly what you’re talking about.”

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