Hunter Biden Probe: DOJ Offers Investigator To Testify Before Congress

The Department of Justice is proposing US Attorney David Weiss, who led the investigation into Hunter Biden, to testify before the House of Representatives after House Republicans demanded he and more than a dozen other officials appear for interviews.

Assistant Attorney General Carlos Felipe Uriarte informed House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, in a letter obtained by Fox on Monday that the DOJ has accepted Weiss' offer to testify "at a public hearing before the committee."

US Attorney in Hunter Biden Probe, to Testify in Congress

House Republicans demanded in June that Weiss and more than a dozen federal officials appear before multiple congressional committees for transcribed interviews regarding allegations of politicization and malfeasance at their agencies during the years-long investigation into the president's son.

The House Oversight Committee, House Judiciary Committee, and House Ways and Means Committee are conducting a joint investigation into whether prosecutorial decisions were influenced by politics during the federal investigation of Hunter Biden.

Assistant US Attorney Lesley Wolf, who allegedly blocked lines of questioning in the investigation pertaining to President Biden; US Attorney for the District of Columbia Matthew Graves, who allegedly blocked Weiss from charging Hunter Biden in his district; Jack Morgan and Mark Daly of the DOJ's Tax Division; US Attorney for the Central District of California E. Martin Estrada; and Acting Deputy AG Aguirre.

House Oversight Committee Democrats issued a memo stating that the release of an unclassified document related to their investigateon of Hunter Biden threatens national security.

Grassley disclosed what is known as an FD-1023 form, which contains allegations made by a confidential informant about President Joe Biden's son Hunter's work with the Ukrainian energy company Burisma.

According to the informant, they were informed by Burisma officials about their relationships with then-vice president Biden and his son Hunter. However, leading Republicans acknowledge they are unable to verify the claims on the form, The Independent reported.

Democratic members of the committee wrote in a memo that the claims, which were relayed to the FBI by a confidential source from Ukrainian oligarch Mykola Zlochevsky, the proprietor of Burisma, were "years after the fact."

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Disclosure of the document, according to Democrats on the committee, led by ranking member Jamie Raskin (D-MD), "could eliminate or chill important collection, undermine the FBI's confidential human source program, jeopardize investigations, and significantly increase the risk of physical harm to sources based on their historic and ongoing collection."

In addition to the confidential human source, the Democratic memo noted that senior Republican figures and members of the Justice Department during Trump's presidency debunked the claims.

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) disclosed the FBI-generated FD-1023 tip document last week, and it has been a focal point of the House Oversight Committee investigation led by Chairman James Comer (R-KY).

In the document, a confidential human source alleges to an FBI informant that both Bidens were paid $5 million by Mykola Zlochevsky, the head of Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company on whose board Hunter Biden sat, to exert pressure on the Ukrainian government to dismiss Viktor Shokin, a prosecutor who was allegedly investigating Burisma.

Even though the allegations are unsubstantiated, Republican members of the committee view them as a crucial aspect of their investigation into the Bidens' international business dealings.

In a memo obtained by the Washington Examiner, the Democratic staff of the committee criticized the Republicans' decision to disclose the document to the public, alleging that it contains discredited "conspiracy theories."

Prior to the 2020 election, Parnas was also assigned with obtaining a statement from Zlochevsky regarding the senior Biden's involvement in his son's business dealings. In response to a list of queries sent to him by Parnas in 2019, Zlochevsky stated that "no one from Burisma ever had contact with Vice President Biden or his staff during Hunter Biden's engagement."

Per The Washington Examiner, this contradicts the claims made by the confidential human source and Zlochevsky in the FD-1023. The confidential human source informs the FBI informant that Zlochevsky paid both Bidens $5 million to negotiate with the prosecutor.

According to the FD-1023, Zlochevsky himself told the informant in 2016 that "it costs $5 million to pay one Biden and $5 million to pay another Biden."