House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer will be allowed Monday to read a subpoenaed FBI document that allegedly implicates President Biden in a $5 million bribery scheme — as he pushes again for bureau Director Christopher Wray to physically hand over the file.

“Chairman Comer will receive a briefing from the FBI and review the document on Monday,” an Oversight Committee spokesperson said, adding that “anything short of producing the FD-1023 form to the House Oversight Committee is not [in] compliance with his subpoena.”

Comer (R-Ky.) may then begin contempt proceedings against Wray — as he threatened to do earlier this week, when the FBI director blew past a May 30 deadline to share the file initially subpoenaed on May 3.

Comer, 50, and Oversight Committee Ranking Member Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) will both look over the document in a sensitive compartmented information facility on Capitol Hill, but neither will be allowed to hang on to a copy.

“This unclassified record contains pages of details that need to be investigated further by the House Oversight Committee,” the spokesperson also said.

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), who first alerted Comer to the June 30, 2020, informant file, acknowledged Thursday that he already read it and criticized Wray, 56, for not making its content public.


  House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) on Monday will be allowed to review a subpoenaed FBI document. REUTERS House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) on Monday will be allowed to review a subpoenaed FBI document. REUTERS

Grassley, 89, declined to describe the allegations it contained, citing potential retaliation against the whistleblower who made a protected disclosure to Congress about the information.

“They’ve got to produce this document,” the senator told Fox News. “They’re up against what the Durham report has said about the shortcomings and the political bias of the FBI, and this is just one more example of them not being forthcoming to the public because the public’s business ought to be public, and there’s no reason for a non-classified document to be held in secret.”  


  The document, which FBI Director Christopher Wray has refused to hand over, allegedly implicates President Biden in a $5 million bribery scheme. CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images The document, which FBI Director Christopher Wray has refused to hand over, allegedly implicates President Biden in a $5 million bribery scheme. CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

A Grassley aide confirmed to The Post that the file “contains serious allegations implicating then-Vice President Biden in a criminal scheme.”

CNN reported Friday that the file “has origins in a tranche of documents that Rudy Giuliani provided to the Justice Department in 2020,” citing “people briefed on the matter.”

A House Oversight Committee spokesperson denied the report, saying: “The same people who spun a four-year investigation on the made-up Steele Dossier are now trying to smear an FBI-generated record when they denied its very existence as recently as this week.”

“The FD-1023 form subpoenaed by Chairman Comer stands on its own,” the rep added. “It was generated by an FBI agent based on a confidential human source. The question is: what did the FBI do with this information? This clearly is a last ditch effort by the Swamp to protect their own.”


  President Biden, left, and his son, Hunter Biden, have been accused of engaging in lucrative influence-peddling deals. Getty Images President Biden, left, and his son, Hunter Biden, have been accused of engaging in lucrative influence-peddling deals. Getty Images

  The FBI had blown past an earlier deadline to deliver the file in mid-May. AP The FBI had blown past an earlier deadline to deliver the file in mid-May. AP

A different source familiar with the file told The Post that the information was from an FBI source who had worked with the bureau since the Barack Obama administration.

The information on the 1023 form was provided to the FBI independent of Giuliani, that source said.

Giuliani’s cache of documents was referred by then-Attorney General William Barr to the US attorney’s office in Pittsburgh in early 2020 for further review. It’s unclear whether or not that referral led to discovery of the bribery tip, which in turn triggered the creation of the 1023.

Since Republicans took the House majority in January, the Oversight Committee has subpoenaed bank records and other information related to first son Hunter Biden and first brother James Biden’s overseas business dealings during and immediately after Joe Biden’s vice presidency.

The FBI had missed an earlier mid-May deadline to deliver the file, with Acting Assistant Director for Congressional Affairs Christopher Dunham replying to Comer in a six-page letter that claimed the information was “unverified” and may endanger FBI sources if disclosed.


  Since Republicans took the House majority in January, the Oversight Committee has subpoenaed bank records and other information from first son Hunter Biden. REUTERS Since Republicans took the House majority in January, the Oversight Committee has subpoenaed bank records and other information from first son Hunter Biden. REUTERS

“Information from confidential human sources is unverified and, by definition, incomplete,” Dunham wrote. “Confidential human sources often provide information to the FBI at great risk to themselves and their loved ones.”

White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby earlier this week denied the accusations against the president, saying in response to a question from The Post: “The president has spoken to this. And there’s nothing to these claims.”

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