Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley did not mince words in his latest letter to top U.S. law enforcement officials.
In an Oct. 13 letter, Grassley stated that the FBI may possess “significant, impactful, and voluminous evidence” of “potential criminal conduct by Hunter Biden and James Biden,” Joe Biden’s brother. Moreover, he wrote, that Joe “may have been involved.”
The Washington Examiner obtained a copy of the letter, which can be viewed below, on Monday. It was sent to Attorney General Merrick Garland, FBI Director Christopher Wray, and Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss, who is leading the criminal investigation into Hunter Biden.
Grassley, an Iowa senator and the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, bases his claims on credible whistleblower disclosures made to his office. The evidence includes a summary of an Oct. 23, 2020, FBI interview with Tony Bobulinski, Hunter Biden’s former business partner.
According to Grassley’s letter, Bobulinski told agents that Hunter Biden and James Biden were working with foreign nationals linked to the Chinese Communist Party on “potential business deals and investments while Joe Biden was Vice President; however, that work remained intentionally uncompensated while Joe Biden was Vice President.”
Grassley did not elaborate on the contents of the documents.
The letter continues:
“After Joe Biden left the Vice Presidency, the summary makes clear that Hunter Biden and James Biden worked with CEFC [a Chinese energy company tied to the CCP] and affiliated individuals to compensate them for that past work and the benefits they procured for CEFC. According to the summary, Hunter Biden, James Biden and their business associates created a joint venture that would serve as a vehicle to accomplish that financial compensation, and that arrangement was made sometime after a meeting in Miami between Hunter Biden and CEFC officials in February 2017. According to the summary, that vehicle was called SinoHawk. … [A]ccording to the summary, 10 percent of Hunter Biden’s interest was to be held for Joe Biden. Attached to this letter is the Oneida Operating Agreement which lists Hunter Biden, James Biden and their business associates and the percentage of interest for each individual.”
“The FBI has within its possession a series of documents relating to information on Mykola Zlochevsky, the owner of Burisma, and his business and financial associations with Hunter Biden. The documents in the FBI’s possession include specific details with respect to conversations by non-government individuals relevant to potential criminal conduct by Hunter Biden,” Grassley writes in the letter. “These documents also indicate that Joe Biden was aware of Hunter Biden’s business arrangements and may have been involved in some of them.”
Mykola Zlochevsky, the founder of Burisma Holdings and the former Ukrainian minister of natural resources, has a long list of corruption accusations against him.
Hunter and his business partner, Devin Archer, were given lucrative positions on the Ukrainian energy company Burisma’s board of directors in 2014. Then-Vice President Joe Biden was serving as the Obama administration’s point man to the notoriously corrupt country at the time.
This compensation, Grassley wrote, came in the form of “an unsecured $5 million loan, intended to be forgivable, from CEFC in 2017.”
Grassley went on to accuse the FBI of not properly examining “significant, impactful and voluminous evidence” in the investigation.
Grassley has written a series of letters to the FBI based on the allegations of whistleblowers who have reached out to his office. In his current letter, he questioned whether the FBI has “followed normal investigative procedure to determine the truth and accuracy of the information.”
“Based on allegations, it is unclear whether the FBI followed normal investigative procedure to determine the truth and accuracy of the information or shut down investigative activity based on improper disinformation claims in advance of the 2020 election, just as it did with Hunter Biden information that I wrote to you about on July 25, 2022. It is also unclear whether U.S. Attorney Weiss has performed his own due diligence on these and related allegations,” Grassley writes.
Read the full letter below:
Grassley has previously released whistleblower claims alleging that evidence against Hunter Biden was incorrectly labeled “disinformation” within the FBI. The letter was sent one week after the Washington Post reported that federal agents believe they have enough evidence to charge 52-year-old Hunter Biden with tax crimes — as well as lying about his drug abuse on a federal gun purchase form.
