The Delaware U.S. Attorney’s Office hid an FBI report that the Ukrainian oil and gas company Burisma paid Hunter and Joe Biden each $5 million bribes, documents released by the House Ways and Means Committee reveal. That revelation eclipses the catalog of other claims of misconduct and political favoritism levied by two IRS whistleblowers, as detailed in the transcripts the House committee released Thursday — and suggests the bribery claims were never investigated.
On Thursday, the House Ways and Means Committee announced its release of the transcripts of the sworn testimony of two IRS agents who had worked directly on the criminal case against Hunter Biden. According to the press release, the whistleblowers’ testimony “outlines misconduct and government abuse at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the investigation of Hunter Biden.”
While the transcripts expose several shocking details concerning the DOJ, FBI, and IRS’s handling of the Hunter Biden criminal investigation, it is the dog that didn’t bark that should sound the alarm.
Nowhere in the transcripts did the IRS whistleblowers discuss the June 30, 2020, FD-1023 report that summarized a “highly credible” confidential human source’s claims that the owner of Burisma said Hunter and Joe Biden coerced him into paying them each $5 million in bribes.
The whistleblowers made clear in supplemental statements provided to the House Ways and Means Committee why that was: because the Delaware U.S. Attorney’s Office did not inform them of the existence or content of the FD-1023.
