The top prosecutor in the Hunter Biden probe may have been briefed on the FBI’s “FD-1023″ informant file, which contains allegations that President Biden was involved in a bribery scheme, according to Sen. Lindsey Graham.
Graham, the ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he was told about the purported briefing and demanded answers on it in a letter to Delaware US Attorney David Weiss, who oversaw the federal inquiry of Hunter.
“I have been informed that you and your office were briefed on allegations in a FD-1023 form suggesting there may have been phone calls recorded between Hunter Biden and Joe Biden with a senior official at Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian energy company,” Graham (R-SC) wrote in the letter to Weiss, a Trump appointee.
Graham sought confirmation on whether Weis was actually briefed on the FD-1023 informant file as well as answers about what steps were taken to investigate the bribery allegations.
Former Attorney General Bill Barr’s previously claimed earlier this month that the informant file had been relayed to Weiss back in 2020.
That file had been subject to a weeks-long standoff between the FBI and the GOP-led House Oversight Committee that demanded its members get access to it.
Ultimately, the bureau caved into those demands earlier this month.
Republicans who reviewed the document claim it flags two $5 million transactions — including one to then-Vice President Biden and another to his son Hunter from Mykola Zlochevsky, the owner of the Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma Holdings.
Those payments were allegedly delivered in exchange for help to pressure Ukraine to oust a prosecutor who was investigating Burisma. Hunter sat on the board of the natural gas giant.
The White House has denied that the president was involved with his younger son’s business dealings.
The FBI has publicly warned that the informant file contained “unverified reporting by a confidential human source.”
Weiss’s team reached a plea agreement with the first son, court documents revealed last week.
None of the potential charges against Hunter outlined in court documents appeared to stem from the accusations in the FD-1023 file.
Instead, the charges entail two federal misdemeanors for willful failure to pay his federal incomes taxes and a felony count of illegally possessing a firearm while addicted to illicit drugs.
Hunter is expected to enter a guilty plea on the two tax misdemeanors and enter a pretrial diversion agreement for the firearm charge.
A court hearing for the case has been set for July 26.
A cacophony of Republicans fumed over the deal, including Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) who blasted it as a “slap on the wrist.”
Graham also took note of IRS whistleblower accusations that Weiss wanted to bring federal charges against the younger Biden in both the Central District of California and in Washington, DC, last year.
The whistleblowers alleged that he was denied that by Biden-appointed US Attorneys Martin Estrada and Matthew Graves.
Weiss, himself, wrote to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) earlier this month, insisting he had “ultimate authority” in the Hunter Biden probe.
Graham demanded answers from Weiss on the whistleblower accusations. He also wrote a dueling letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland demanding a response from him on the whistleblower claims.
Garland has publicly rejected some of the whistleblower allegations about political influence penetrating the probe, including that Weiss requested to be a special counsel.
Weiss allegedly claimed he was denied special counsel status and was not the “deciding official” in front of at least six witnesses, per the whistleblower allegations.