U.S. intelligence agencies intercepted Ukrainian government communications in late 2022 that described a scheme to divert hundreds of millions of American taxpayer dollars, earmarked for clean energy infrastructure, back into Joe Biden's 2024 re-election campaign and the Democratic National Committee, according to a declassified intelligence report obtained by Just the News.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard recently discovered the intercepts and has asked the U.S. Agency for International Development to search its records to determine whether the alleged plot was ever carried out. She is weighing whether to make a criminal referral to the FBI.
The most damning detail may not be the plot itself but what happened next, or, more precisely, what didn't. Gabbard's team found no substantive evidence that the Biden administration ever investigated the intercepted allegations. Officials said the communications are not believed to be tied to Russian disinformation efforts.
The declassified report is a summary of raw intercepts collected by U.S. spy agencies in late 2022. Officials who reviewed the files told Just the News there appeared to be a striking lack of curiosity about an allegation that, on its face, described foreign interference in an American election.
The summary stated plainly what the intercepted communications described:
"The Ukrainian Government and unspecified U.S. Government personnel, through USAID in Kyiv, reportedly developed a plan that would provide hundreds of millions of US taxpayer dollars to fund an infrastructure project for Ukraine that would be used as a cover to send approximately 90% of funds allocated to the DNC to fund Joe Biden's reelection campaign."
The alleged mechanism was blunt. Ukrainian officials and unnamed U.S. government personnel would fund an infrastructure project through USAID that they expected to be approved initially, even though they anticipated it would later be deemed unnecessary. By that point, the money would already be allocated and, in the report's words, "impossible to return or use for a different purpose."
Two American subcontractors were named in the still-classified raw intelligence as possible conduits for the money. Their identities were redacted from the declassified version.
The summary described a layered scheme designed to frustrate auditors:
"The plan included details of how subcontractors would be funded through U.S. companies so that how the funds were spent and allocated would be difficult to track. Additionally, contracts would be executed that would be difficult to verify. In this manner, most of the U.S. funding would be diverted to Joe Biden's election campaign without the ability to track where exactly the funds came from."
Set aside for a moment whether the plot was carried out. The intercepts describe Ukrainian government officials openly discussing a plan to launder American aid money into a sitting president's campaign, and no one in the Biden administration appears to have lifted a finger to find out if it happened.
The absence of any known investigation fits a broader pattern. The Biden-era intelligence and law enforcement apparatus showed a consistent willingness to suppress, ignore, or slow-walk information that might embarrass the Biden family, while aggressively pursuing matters that served the opposite political interest.
Consider the FBI's handling of Hunter Biden's laptop. A House Judiciary Committee report detailed by National Review found that the FBI authenticated Hunter Biden's laptop in late 2019, well before the 2020 election, yet spent more than 30 meetings with social media platforms in 2020 warning about an anticipated Russian-style "hack-and-leak" operation involving Burisma and Hunter Biden. When the New York Post broke its laptop story in October 2020, platforms moved to suppress it. The FBI, which already knew the laptop was genuine, declined to tell the companies.
That suppression effort was not incidental. As Newsmax reported, Twitter locked the New York Post's account and blocked users from sharing its Hunter Biden stories. Facebook reduced distribution. Former Hunter Biden business partner Tony Bobulinski came forward publicly with corroborating emails and texts, but major outlets largely ignored him. NPR's public editor post at the time dismissed the story: "We don't want to waste our time on stories that aren't really stories."
Meanwhile, the FBI was running four consecutive secret counterintelligence probes targeting Trump and his supporters over nearly a decade. The contrast in institutional energy, aggressive investigation of one political camp, deliberate incuriosity about the other, is difficult to explain as coincidence.
And the intelligence community's selective silence extended beyond the laptop. As we previously reported, U.S. intelligence knew China accessed American voter data in 2020 and kept it quiet. Then-DNI John Ratcliffe concluded that the People's Republic of China sought to influence the 2020 U.S. federal elections, a finding that Breitbart reported Judicial Watch cited in calling for a special counsel to investigate Biden family dealings in China, Ukraine, and other countries.
The declassified intercepts surface at a particularly awkward moment for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who has been working closely with President Trump's envoys to craft a peace plan to end the war that began with Russian aggression in 2022.
Even as Zelenskyy has won praise from the Trump administration for making concessions, his government has been dogged by fresh corruption allegations. Andriy Yermak, the former Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine and a longtime Zelenskyy ally, resigned in late November after searches of his home by two Ukrainian anti-corruption agencies, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAP).
NABU stated on X that the searches were "sanctioned and are being carried out as part of the investigation." Earlier in November, the two agencies had announced that a "high-level criminal organization operating in [the] energy sector" had been "exposed" as part of "Operation Midas."
Zelenskyy addressed the matter in a national address:
"When all attention is focused on diplomacy and on defending ourselves in this war, we need internal strength. Internal strength is the foundation of our external unity and of our relations with the world. And for that internal strength to exist, there must be no reason to get distracted by anything other than defending Ukraine. I want no one to have any questions for Ukraine."
Zelenskyy announced a "reset" of the Office of the President, accepting Yermak's resignation while praising his "patriotic position" on negotiations. But he also acknowledged the need to "eliminate any rumors and speculation."
Sources close to Zelenskyy have floated the idea of assisting the Trump Department of Justice in its investigation of earlier efforts by Ukrainian oligarch Mykola Zlochevsky to curry favor with the Biden family, Just the News reported. That assistance reportedly includes arranging cooperation with Ukrainian witnesses who could help U.S. authorities resolve unanswered questions about the Biden family's foreign corruption dealings.
The Burisma saga is by now well worn but bears repeating in this context. In April 2014, then-Vice President Biden met with his son's business partner Devon Archer at the White House. Five days later, Biden visited Ukraine and was described as the "public face of the administration's handling of Ukraine." The day after that visit, Archer joined the Burisma board. Six days later, British officials seized $23 million from Zlochevsky's London bank accounts. Fourteen days after that, Hunter Biden joined the board.
A 2020 joint report by Senators Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson laid out the timeline in detail, concluding that "over the course of the next several years, Hunter Biden and Devon Archer were paid millions of dollars from a corrupt Ukrainian oligarch for their participation on the board."
Hunter Biden himself acknowledged the obvious in 2019. Asked whether he would have been offered the Burisma seat without his last name, he said: "Probably not, in retrospect." In his 2021 memoir, he admitted "there's no question my last name was a coveted credential" while calling the Burisma work "inspiring" and "consequential."
Joe Biden had long pledged he would not pardon his son, who faced sentencing for gun and tax convictions. In December 2024, he did it anyway, and not just for the convictions. The pardon covered any "offenses against the United States which he has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 1, 2014, through December 1, 2024." That date range, beginning in 2014, covers the entire Burisma period and beyond.
The pattern of Biden-era officials allegedly evading accountability extends well beyond Ukraine. But the Ukraine thread is the one with intercepted communications describing a plot to funnel American tax dollars into a presidential campaign, communications that apparently sat in a classified file, uninvestigated, for years.
DNI Gabbard has asked USAID to scour its records. The central question is straightforward: Was the scheme described in the intercepts ever executed? Did hundreds of millions of dollars flow through a sham infrastructure project, through subcontractors, and into Democratic campaign coffers?
The names of the two American subcontractors remain classified. Whether a criminal referral to the FBI will follow depends on what USAID's records reveal. And the broader question, why no one in the Biden administration investigated intercepts describing a foreign government's plan to funnel money into that same administration's campaign, may prove the hardest to answer.
Senator Grassley released an FBI-generated FD-1023 record in 2023 detailing allegations made by a confidential human source about Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, and Zlochevsky. That source was later revealed to be Alexander Smirnov. The Burisma question, which sparked Trump's first impeachment in 2019, he was acquitted by the Senate in early 2020, has never been fully resolved.
Now declassified intercepts add another layer: not just a family trading on a famous name for board seats and consulting fees, but a described plan involving a foreign government and U.S. officials to move American aid money directly into a presidential campaign.
When the intelligence community intercepts foreign officials discussing a plot to funnel U.S. tax dollars into a sitting president's re-election, the bare minimum response is an investigation. The Biden administration couldn't even manage that.
