Allegations of bribery against Joe Biden apparently first surfaced in 2018 when a former federal prosecutor informed authorities there was a “foreign national” who was willing to make a statement on the ex-vice president’s behavior, a full two years before charges were brought by the whistleblower who now has been speaking to the House Oversight Committee.
But the response back then from government officials was not to investigate and find the truth, but to persecute the former prosecutor who submitted the information.
It is Just the News that obtained interviews and documents revealing the scandal.
The report said it was retired Little Rock, Ark., U.S. Attorney Bud Cummins who wrote Geoffrey Berman, who at the time was New York U.S. attorney.
The message, dated Oct. 4, 2018, was that then-Ukraine Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko was willing to travel to the United States to present evidence about the Bidens and Burisma Holdings.
Just the News revealed, according to an email from Cummins to Berman, Lutsenko thought “VP Biden (and Sec State Kerry) exercised influence to protect Burisma Holdings in exchange for payments to Hunter Biden, (business partner) Devon Archer, and Joe Biden.”
At the time, Hunter Biden and his business partner Devon Archer both were getting paid massive sums by Burisma to be on its board.
However, Hunter Biden had no experience or qualifications to be on the board of the Ukrainian natural gas firm. The hirings happened while Joe Biden was VP, and in charge of U.S.-Ukraine policy.