Jim Jordan in new standoff with FBI over Biden bribe informant file

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) is asking FBI Director Christopher Wray to hand over another confidential informant file related to an alleged $10 million bribe that the owner of Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma Holdings paid to Hunter and Joe Biden.

The March 1, 2017, file from a confidential human source of the bureau may contain “crucial” information to the committee’s investigation of Hunter’s overseas business dealings and impeachment proceedings against President Biden, Jordan wrote in a Thursday letter to Wray.

Jordan said the file “resulted in the creation of now publicly available [report], dated June 30, 2020, containing information implicating then-Vice President Biden in a multimillion-dollar bribery scheme,” was “necessary” for his committee’s work and must be submitted by Jan. 19.

The 2020 FBI informant file, released last year by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), contained bombshell allegations that the president and his son “coerced” Burisma owner Mykola Zlochevsky into paying them each $5 million to get Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin fired in early 2016.

Jordan added that Judiciary panel members “first learned” of the 2017 file after conducting a transcribed interview with former Pittsburgh US Attorney Scott Brady, who was tapped by then-Attorney General Bill Barr to probe matters related to Ukrainian corruption in 2020.

A source told The Post that Jordan intends to subpoena the informant file if the FBI balks at the Jan. 19 deadline. The bureau did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The 2017 informant file “discussed Hunter Biden” and plans for Burisma executive Vadym Pozharskyi “to travel to Washington, D.C., in March 2017” but “was not relevant to Burisma’s interest in acquiring a US-based petroleum business for $50-$100 million,” according to the FBI’s source.

The details are mentioned in a footnote of the 2020 file, which Brady had “developed” from the “highly credible” source, who had worked for the bureau for more than a decade.

“Once we were made aware of it,” the former federal prosecutor told the Judiciary Committee in his Oct. 23, 2023, interview, his assistant prosecutors “identified that line relating to Mr. Biden and his role at Burisma.”

“They brought that to my attention, and we then engaged the FBI and said we need to understand what this is or what this is not; can you please go out and re-interview the [confidential human source] and develop this,” Brady said. “That then led to this June of 2020 1023.”

The informant described four conversations he had with Zlochevsky between late 2015 and early 2016 — around the time that then-Vice President Biden traveled to Kyiv to pressure then-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to remove Shokin.

The prosecutor was ousted in March 2016 by a vote of Ukraine’s parliament.

During a 2018 panel discussion at the Council on Foreign Relations, the elder Biden bragged about threatening to withhold $1 billion in US loan guarantees in December 2015 from Poroshenko to force Shokin’s ouster.

“Well, son of a bitch. He got fired,” the future president recalled, to laughter from his audience.

Congressional Democrats have insisted Shokin’s removal had been sought by both the US and European nations due to his own corruption.

Hunter Biden sat on the board of Burisma from 2014 to 2019, earning up to $1 million per year despite having no relevant energy experience, but his monthly salary was cut in half in March 2017 — just two months after his dad left the White House.

Zlochevsky told the FBI source that he had 17 recordings of conversations with the Bidens — two involving Joe — and “many text messages,” documents and financial information about the “payment(s) to the Bidens.”

“Zlochevsky responded he did not send any funds directly to the ‘Big Guy’ (which [the FBI source] understood was a reference to Joe Biden),” the file states.

“[The source] asked Zlochevsky how many companies/bank accounts Zlochevsky controls; Zlochevsky responded it would take them (Investigators) 10 years to find the records (i.e. illicit payments to Joe Biden).”

Several former associates of Hunter referred to Joe Biden as “the big guy” in emails discussing the first son’s business ventures abroad, including a 2017 deal involving a Chinese government-linked energy conglomerate that was set to provide Joe Biden a 10% stake.

The deal was one of two bombshell reports by The Post in October 2020 about Hunter’s influence-peddling schemes with foreign nationals, which were retrieved from his abandoned laptop’s hard drive.

The other reported on the then-second son introducing his father to Pozharskyi in April 2015, a meeting that was later confirmed to have taken place at Cafe Milano in Georgetown.

Hunter Biden, 53, is currently battling both federal and congressional investigations into his foreign business affairs and has been indicted on tax fraud and weapons charges in Los Angeles and Delaware, respectively.