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Top GOP Senators are demanding that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) provide answers on alleged interference in Hunter Biden laptop probe. Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) sent a letter to the FBI on Thursday, demanding that the agency explain why investigations into Hunter’s laptop were stalled, Newsweek reports.
Hunter Biden
is facing federal investigation related to potential money laundering, as well
as violations of campaign finance, tax and foreign lobbying laws, according to
Newsweek.
In a statement
Friday Grassley said that in August 2020, FBI Deputy Assistant Director of
Counterintelligence Bradley Benavides and FBI intelligence analyst Nikki Floris
gave an "unnecessary briefing on behalf of the FBI and Intelligence
Community on matters related to the senators' investigation into Hunter Biden,"
according to Newsweek.
"The
briefing led to a leak that falsely labeled the investigation as advancing
Russian disinformation," the statement read. The Republican senators want
both FBI officials to appear for a transcribed interview to explain the FBI’s
alleged interference in the Hunter Biden investigation.
Why did the FBI allegedly stall Hunter Biden's foreign agent investigation?
The senators
wrote in the letter to Floris and Benavides that "FBI officials initiated
a scheme to downplay derogatory information on Hunter Biden for the purpose of
shutting down investigative activity relating to his potential criminal
exposure by labeling it 'disinformation,'" according to Newsweek.
“Whistleblowers
have also alleged that local FBI leadership instructed employees not to look at
the Hunter Biden laptop immediately after the FBI had obtained it," the senators
alleged
"Simply
put, the unnecessary FBI briefing provided the Democrats and liberal media the
vehicle to spread their false narrative that our work advanced Russian
disinformation. Although you stated that the FBI didn't intend to 'interfere'
in our investigation, the practical effect of such an unnecessary briefing and
the subsequent leaks relating to it created interference, which frustrated and
obstructed congressional oversight efforts," they wrote in their Thursday
letter to the FBI officials, according to Newsweek
What with Hunter Biden's foreign business schemes?
New York
Post revealed that its examination of Biden’s infamous abandoned laptop in the
last year exposed myriad of foreign business schemes the then Vice President’s
son tried to shepherd.
President
Joe Biden son’s foreign dealings is currently being investigated by the Justice
Department
The
investigations include violations of foreign lobbying laws and money
laundering.
In China,
his work for energy company CEFC indicates the company’s interest in gaining
influence in the United States.
According to
New York Post, while Ukrainian energy company Burisma paid Hunter Biden $83,333
a month to sit on its board, Hunter Biden introduced Vadym Pozharskyi – one of
the company’s top executives – to his father, emails reveals less than three
years later.
Hunter Biden
and Eric Schwerin, the president of Hunter’s investment firm Rosemont Seneca
Partners discussed their worries over domestic and foreign lobbying rules and
appear to have consciously chosen to remain unregistered, hard drive emails
show, according to New York Post.
"The
FBI has consistently failed to respond in full to each request and failed to
provide those critical records which casts further doubt on the true purpose
for the briefing," the senators said in their letter.
Did Hunter pay foreign escorts?
Hunter spent
over $30,000 on escorts, many of whom were linked to “.ru” Russian email
addresses, who worked with a “model agency” called UberGFE between November
2018 and March 2019, the Washington Examiner reported.
Hunter had
told members of his family that he was broke at the time, but made payments to
the escorts after receiving a total wire payment of $100,000 from President Joe
Biden to help him pay his bills from December 2018 through January 2019.