House Republican Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan is demanding the FBI release evidence highlighting the Biden family’s pay-to-play schemes to investigators in the lower chamber.
On Thursday, the Ohio lawmaker sent a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray to provide Congress an FD-1023 form from March 2017. The document was referenced in the bombshell FD-1023 form released this summer, exposing an apparent bribery scheme between the president and a foreign oligarch.
“The Committee requires this document to evaluate whether sufficient grounds exist to consider drafting articles of impeachment,” the Judiciary chairman wrote.
The FD-1023, from June 2020, provided detailed information from a “highly credible” confidential human source (CHS) about the Biden family cashing in on the president’s political influence. According to the unclassified document, the Biden family allegedly took a $10 million bribe from Mykola Zlochevsky, the founder of Ukrainian energy firm Burisma, where Hunter Biden served on the board raking in excessive compensation.
“Because the 2020 FD-1023 includes such serious allegations of bribery and the involvement of President Biden in Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings and because material in the 2017 FD-1023 led to the development of the 2020 FD-1023, the Committee needs access [to] the 2017 FD-1023,” Jordan wrote. “In sum, the 2017 FD-1023 is necessary to inform potential legislation and to inform the Committee’s impeachment investigation into President Biden.”
House Republicans launched impeachment proceedings against President Biden in September before a weeks-long adjournment of the chamber to elect a new speaker. Lawmakers have issued formal
