A House committee is barreling towards a contempt vote Thursday in opposition to FBI director Christopher A. Wray, with the chairman accusing Mr. Wray of orchestrating a coverup by withholding subpoenaed paperwork that allege President Biden took bribes.
The House Oversight and Accountability Committee has drafted the contempt decision and set a vote for Thursday until Mr. Wray turns over the paperwork detailing an informant’s claims that Mr. Biden took bribes from overseas nationals when he was vice chairman within the Obama White House.
“The FBI has refused to comply with our lawfully issued subpoena and even refused to admit the record’s existence up until a week ago. Once Director Wray confirmed the record’s existence, the FBI started their coverup by leaking a false narrative to the media,” stated Chairman James Comer, Kentucky Republican.
The Washington Times reached out to the FBI for remark however didn’t hear again. The FBI beforehand stated that turning over the doc would endanger the security of sources and the integrity of ongoing investigations.
Meanwhile, former Attorney General William Barr disputed the assertion made by the committee’s high Democrat, Jamie Raskin of Maryland, that the FBI had shut down the investigation of the bribery scheme.
Mr. Raskin stated the FBI’s investigation throughout Mr. Barr’s tenure decided that there have been no grounds to proceed the probe.
“Attorney General Barr named Scott Brady, who is the U.S. Attorney for Western Pennsylvania, to head up a group of prosecutors and FBI agents who would look into all of the allegations related to Ukraine,” Mr. Raskin stated. “They decided there [were] no grounds to escalate this investigation. So if there’s a complaint, the complaint is with the Attorney General William Barr with the Trump Justice Department and the team that the Trump administration appointed to look into it.”
Mr. Barr later instructed the Federalist that the case was by no means shut down.
“It’s not true. It wasn’t closed down,” he stated. “On the contrary, it was sent to Delaware for further investigation.”
Mr. Comer and Mr. Raskin have been briefed by FBI officers Tuesday in regards to the unclassified doc that was subpoenaed by the committee in May. The doc, often called an FD-1023 type, particulars the knowledge supplied by a confidential informant.
After viewing the doc, Mr. Comer introduced he would transfer ahead with contempt proceedings in opposition to Mr. Wray for not turning over a bodily copy of the file.
“FBI officials confirmed that the unclassified FBI generated record has not been disproven, and is currently being used in an ongoing investigation,” Mr. Comer instructed reporters after the FBI briefing on the Capitol.
He stated the doc suggests a sample of bribery with the funds funneled via shell accounts and a number of banks.
“There’s a term for that, it’s called money laundering,” Mr. Comer stated. “So we feel that this accusation is consistent with a pattern that we’re seeing, frankly, in other countries.”
He described the confidential FBI supply as a “trusted, highly credible informant who has been used by the FBI for over 10 years and has been paid over six figures.”
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