There was ‘reluctance’ by the FBI to aggressively pursue leads connected to Joe and Hunter Biden’s ties to corrupt Ukrainian oil company Burisma, a former top prosecutor reveals.
Former U.S. Attorney Scott Brady sat for a transcribed interview with House Judiciary Committee members and staff this week as Republicans ramp up their investigation into the Biden family’s foreign business dealings.
Brady, the former top prosecutor in Pittsburgh, was tasked by former Attorney General Bill Barr in 2020 with investigating ‘allegations of Ukrainian corruption broadly,’ which he said expanded to President Joe Biden’s son Hunter’s role on the board of energy company Burisma Holdings.
According to his testimony reviewed by AlertContent.com, Brady told congressional investigators that ‘there was reluctance on the part of the FBI to really do any tasking related to our assignment.’
Brady revealed that there were tensions between himself, U.S. Attorney David Weiss – the lead prosecutor in the probe into Hunter’s alleged gun and tax crimes – and the FBI.
Brady called it a ‘challenging working relationship’ during his testimony, going so far as to label it ‘problematic.’
According to the conversation between a confidential source and Burisma CFO Vadim Pojarski in 2015, Hunter Biden was hired onto the company’s board to ‘protect us, through his dad, from all kinds of problems’
In one instance, he said that now-Special Counsel Weiss actually missed an important briefing on allegations of bribery by the Bidens.
To Brady, that signaled the Justice Department’s reluctance to pursue those leads.
On another occasion, he recounted that 17 individuals within the FBI had to sign off on one assignment under his jurisdiction – an unheard of amount of oversight that he had never experienced previously.
He added that ‘never in my career’ had he seen an approval chain that massive.
In addition, Brady stated that FBI special agents were directed by leadership to go ‘pens down,’ meaning they could not take any investigative actions – for weeks – while waiting for approvals.
He called it ‘incredibly frustrating,’ and frequently used to delay his ability to verify information they uncovered related to the Bidens.
During Brady’s review of the Biden-connected Ukraine dealings, he told the Judiciary Committee that an internal FBI document created by a ‘highly credible’ informant was discovered detailing an alleged bribery scheme.
As previously reported by AlertContent.com, the FD-1023 document included bombshell claims that Joe Biden and his son Hunter forced a Ukrainian oil executive to pay them $10 million in exchange for the then-vice president’s influence in getting a senior prosecutor fired.
Joe was allegedly bribed by Mykola Zlochevsky, the owner Ukrainian gas firm Burisma, with $5million, according to information received by a trusted FBI informant
According to the conversation between a confidential source and Burisma CFO Vadim Pojarski in 2015, Hunter Biden was hired onto the company’s board to ‘protect us, through his dad, from all kinds of problems.’
Burisma CEO Mykola Zlochevsky told the source: ‘It costs 5 (million) to pay one Biden, and 5 (million) to another Biden.’
Zlochevsky added that, although Hunter ‘was stupid,’ and his (Zlochevsky’s) dog was smarter, he was needed on the board ‘so everything will be okay.’
AlertContent.com previously reported that the 17 audio recordings of phone calls – two of Joe Biden and 15 of Hunter Biden – were kept as an ‘insurance policy’ by Zlochevsky.
The FBI FD-1023 form was created on June 30, 2020 based on information from a highly-paid informant and brought to the attention of Republicans by a whistleblower.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, obtained and published the document after a months-long back-and-forth between the top Republican and the FBI through ‘legally protected disclosures’ by Department of Justice whistleblowers.
In a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland obtained by AlertContent.com this week, Grassley said that at least 40 sources within different FBI field offices and supplied the bureau with details of potential crimes by the Bidens.
Former U.S. Attorney Scott Brady sat for a transcribed interview with House Judiciary Committee members and staff this week
The FD-1023 document included bombshell claims that Joe Biden and his son Hunter forced a Ukrainian oil executive to pay them $10 million in exchange for the then-vice president’s influence in getting a senior prosecutor fired
In addition, according to the letter, Grassley learned that an FBI task force within the Washington Field Office sought to, and managed to, successfully shut down reporting from those sources by falsely discrediting the information.
Brady’s probe included tips brought by former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani – who in 2019 claimed that he had proof that Burisma laundered $3 million through Hunter.
But he told congressional investigators that Giuliani was not the source in the FD-1023 form.
He also added that the source was re-interviewed in June 2020 following the original claims made in a 2017 disclosure.
Brady’s testimony comes a month after House Republicans launched an official impeachment inquiry into Joe’s connections to his family’s shady business dealings.
They are also probing alleged politicization on the part of DOJ during its investigation into the president’s son.