The Delaware U.S. attorney’s office received a detailed briefing that established the FD-1023 implicating Hunter and Joe Biden in a Ukrainian bribery scandal was not Russian disinformation and was not sourced to Rudy Giuliani, according to a transcribed interview of former Pittsburgh U.S. Attorney Scott Brady. Yet the Delaware U.S. attorney’s office seemingly ignored the work undertaken by the Pittsburgh office and acted with willful blindness to the evidence implicating the now-president and his son.
Last Monday, Brady sat for a transcribed interview before the House Judiciary Committee. Over the course of some six hours of questioning, the committee elicited testimony revealing the Pittsburgh office’s diligence in tackling the task given by former Attorney General Willam Barr: to screen evidence presented to the Department of Justice related to Ukraine.
The public has known for some time, thanks to Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and IRS whistleblowers, that the Pittsburgh-based U.S. attorney’s office had provided the Delaware office information about an FD-1023 that summarized a “highly credible” confidential human source’s reporting that Hunter and Joe Biden pressured Ukrainian energy company Burisma to pay them each $5 million in bribes.
More recently, IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley revealed that Delaware Assistant U.S. Attorney (AUSA) Lesley Wolf had refused to accept a briefing from the Pittsburgh office until ordered to do so by Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General (PADAG) Rich Donoghue. According to Shapley, Wolf wanted nothing to do with the Pittsburgh-based U.S. attorney’s office because she believed that no information from that office could
