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POLITICS Published July 21, 2023 1:50pm EDT

Oversight Dem doubles down on false

claim Trump's DOJ spiked Biden
corruption probe following FBI doc
release
Former Attorney General Bill Barr says Jamie Raskin is wrong that former President Trump's DOJ ended the
investigation

By Joe Schoffstall , Brooke Singman | Fox News

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Democrat Rep. Jamie Raskin, the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, is
doubling down on false claims that President Trump's Justice Department had halted a
corruption allegation into President Biden and ended the investigation due to a lack of
evidence.

On Thursday, Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley released an unclassified FBI record

describing an alleged criminal bribery scheme involving then-Vice President Joe Biden and
a Ukrainian business executive so that the American people can "read this document for
themselves without the filter of politicians or bureaucrats."

The document, an FD-1023 form, alleged that Biden and his son Hunter "coerced" Burisma
CEO Mykola Zlochevsky to pay them millions of dollars in exchange for their help in
getting the Ukrainian prosecutor investigating the company fired.

After its release, Raskin fired off a statement claiming the "secondhand claims recorded in
the Form 1023" had "already been investigated and dismissed by the Trump DOJ."

BIDEN'S ALLEGEDLY 'COERCED' BURISMA CEO TO PAY THEM MILLIONS TO HELP GET
UKRAINE PROSECUTOR FIRED: FBI FORM

Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., has again falsely stated Trump's DOJ ended an investigation into President Biden. (AP
Photo/Andrew Harnik)

"Releasing this document in isolation from explanatory context is another transparently

desperate attempt by Committee Republicans to revive the aging and debunked Giuliani-
ramed conspiracy theories and to distract from their continuing failure to produce any
actual evidence of wrongdoing by the President—even at the cost of endangering the
safety of FBI sources," Raskin wrote in the press release.

Raskin is again declaring that Trump's Justice Department spiked the Biden corruption
investigation after former Attorney General Bill Barr had shot down those claims.

Raskin previously said that Barr "spent the summer" with his team of prosecutors looking
into the claim and "determined there was no grounds to escalate from an initial
assessment to a preliminary investigation" and "called an end" to the investigation due to
lack of suspicion of "criminal activity."

Barr, however, responded by saying that was not the case. "It's not true," Barr told The
Federalist in June . "It wasn't closed down. On the contrary, it was sent to Delaware for
further investigation."

HOUSE GOP DEMAND TRANSCRIBED INTERVIEWS FROM HUNTER BIDEN PROSECUTOR,

DOJ, IRS, SECRET SERVICE OFFICIALS

An FBI document alleged a criminal bribery scheme involving then-Vice President Joe Biden and a Ukrainian business
executive. (AP)

That FD-1023 — a confidential human source reporting document — reflects the FBI's
interview with a "highly credible" confidential source who detailed multiple meetings and
conversations they had with a top executive of Ukrainian natural gas firm Burisma
Holdings over the course of several years starting in 2015. Hunter Biden at the time, sat ,

on the board of Burisma.

Fox News Digital has reviewed the document, which includes new information, including
the identity of the business executive — Burisma CEO Zlochevsky — and the allegations
that he was "coerced" into paying now-President Biden and Hunter Biden millions of
dollars to get a Ukrainian prosecutor investigating his firm fired.

Biden has acknowledged that when he was vice president, he successfully pressured
Ukraine to fire prosecutor Viktor Shokin. At the time, Shokin was investigating Burisma
Holdings, and at the time, Hunter had a highly lucrative role on the board, receiving
thousands of dollars per month. The then-vice president threatened to withhold $1 billion
of critical U.S. aid if Shokin was not fired.

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The unclassified document is dated June 30, 2020 and says the contact with the source
was "telephonic."

Raskin's office did not respond to a Fox News Digital request for comment by the time of
publication.

Fox News Digital's Andrew Mark Miller contributed reporting.

Joe Schoffstall is a politics producer/reporter for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to
Joe.Schoffstall@Fox.com and on Twitter: @joeschoffstall

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