Washington, D.C. — Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has made public a series of declassified FBI documents that allege a staggering level of corruption involving President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden. The files, which include summaries of interviews conducted with two separate confidential informants, paint a picture of political favoritism, foreign bribery, and deep entanglements between the Biden family and Ukrainian energy interests.
During a Senate hearing this week, Grassley emphasized that the core issue isn’t whether every allegation is definitively true, but whether the FBI conducted a proper investigation. “To date, the FBI has never answered Congress whether they investigated the text messages, the audio files, and financial records referenced in that file,” Grassley said.
“In total, we now have three different FBI confidential human sources providing information about the Biden family and potential criminal conduct,” he added. “Let me say this for the partisan media: We aren’t saying the allegations are true. We want to know what the FBI did to fully investigate their veracity or lack thereof, and what they concluded. Let’s put this matter to rest, one way or the other.”
According to the documents, first published by the New York Post, the FBI received serious allegations from informants in both 2017 and 2019. The informants described what they referred to as a foreign bribery “scheme” centered on Burisma Holdings, the controversial Ukrainian energy firm that paid Hunter Biden a reported $1 million annually for board membership between 2014 and 2019. Burisma’s founder, Mykola Zlochevsky, was allegedly at the heart of this arrangement.
The documents claim Zlochevsky sought to bribe then-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko with an eye-popping $100 million in exchange for halting an Interpol investigation into Burisma. In return, Poroshenko was allegedly offered “shares and guaranteed profits from gas sales” — all while Joe and Hunter Biden reportedly had “money invested” in Burisma via a Latvian shell company.
Even more disturbing, the documents indicate that then-Vice President Joe Biden met directly with Poroshenko to “protect the interests” of Hunter Biden and, by extension, Zlochevsky. This protection allegedly came at a time when Burisma was facing increasing scrutiny, and U.S. intelligence officials may have stepped in to shield Zlochevsky further.
One FBI file references two CIA officers who purportedly escorted Zlochevsky into a meeting with Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko, urging him to stop investigating Zlochevsky, reportedly claiming the Burisma oligarch was “protected by the U.S.” A deal was ultimately brokered for Zlochevsky to pay $3 million in damages and be allowed back into Ukraine.
The documents go on to detail a 2016 reverse merger involving Burisma and Texas-based CUB Energy Inc., allegedly tying in not just Joe and Hunter Biden, but also their close business partners Devon Archer and Chris Heinz (stepson of former Secretary of State John Kerry). This merger, the informants allege, was part of a broader money laundering operation involving Ukrainian, Russian, and American actors.
“Joseph Biden would ‘take care’ of Burisma Holding issues around the world, and Poroshenko would protect Zlochevsky,” one of the files states, suggesting a quid pro quo arrangement designed to preserve the Bidens’ financial interests and Burisma’s legal safety.
The documents also raise red flags about Russian influence. According to one memo, the Russian foreign intelligence service was running a “direct operation” aimed at penetrating the American elite — yet another indicator of how foreign governments may have used U.S. political figures for strategic leverage.
This is not the first time Senator Grassley has raised alarms. In 2023, he released another FBI informant file from 2020, which claimed that Joe and Hunter Biden each received $5 million from Zlochevsky to protect Burisma from an anti-corruption probe led by Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin — the same prosecutor Biden famously pressured Ukraine to fire by threatening to withhold $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees.
In a now-infamous video, Biden openly bragged about this during a 2018 event, stating, “I told them, ‘You’re not getting the billion. I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money.’ Well, son of a b****, he got fired.”
Conservatives are now demanding transparency and accountability from both the Biden administration and the FBI, which continues to face accusations of partisanship and selective enforcement of justice. With growing calls for further congressional investigation, this latest release of FBI documents could be just the beginning of a deeper unraveling of what many are calling the Biden-Ukraine influence scandal.
