Sen. Chuck Grassley released a confidential FBI informant’s unverified claim that the Biden family in 2016 “coerced” a Ukrainian oligarch to pay them $10 million. The White House has denied the allegation, saying it has been investigated and 'debunked.'
The FBI's deputy director, Paul Abbate, testified before the Senate last month that the FD-1023 had been redacted to protect the source: "This a question of life and death, potentially."
Democrats pounced on Grassley for publishing the FD-1023, accusing him of selectively highlighting uncorroborated information to hurt a political opponent. The FD-1023 cites an unnamed source who recounts a series of interactions in 2015 and 2016 with Mykola Zlochevsky, the chief executive of Burisma, a Ukrainian energy firm that hired Hunter Biden as a board member in 2013.
Securing Shokin's ouster was the U.S. State Department's official policy stance at the time, and once Shokin was removed, the European Union's envoy to Ukraine, Jan Tombinski, lauded the decision as "an opportunity to make a fresh start." Grassley has in the past criticized the release of raw intelligence. He was one of Congress' most vocal critics of Christopher Steele, the author of the infamous Trump-Russia dossier. Steele, like the confidential source cited in the FD-1023, was also known to the FBI and trusted by the FBI when he provided his unverified reports about Trump's activities Moscow ahead of the 2016 presidential election.
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