FBI Director Christopher Wray alleged on Tuesday that he did not learn of the confidential human source’s (CHS) claim that the Ukrainian energy giant Burisma had bribed the Bidens until “much, much, much more recently than anything around 2020.” Wray’s testimony cannot be squared with earlier testimony from whistleblowers and the Pittsburgh U.S. attorney — unless those investigating Hunter Biden buried the CHS’s reporting.
On Tuesday, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, drilled the FBI director on the bureau’s handling of reporting from June 2020 of a longtime, “highly credible” CHS that implicated the Biden family in a bribery scandal. At the time, at the direction of then-Attorney General William Barr, the U.S. attorney’s office in Pittsburgh was screening evidence related to Ukrainian corruption. As part of that review process, then-U.S. Attorney Scott Brady requested that FBI agents reinterview a CHS who had previously made a passing reference to Hunter Biden and his service on Burisma’s board of directors.
Further questioning of the CHS resulted in the explosive FD-1023 that Grassley released in July. That FD-1023 summarized the CHS’s reporting that Burisma had paid Hunter and Joe Biden each $5 million in bribes so the then-vice president would “protect” Burisma “from all kinds of problems.” Those alleged bribes were in addition to the more than $4 million in total Burisma reportedly paid to Hunter Biden and his business partner Devon Archer for sitting on Burisma’s board of directors.
When did Wray first learn about the FD-1023 that Grassley inquired about during Tuesday’s Judiciary Committee
