Ex-FBI informant to plead guilty to lying that Bidens accepted bribesBy
Ashley Oliver
December 12, 2024 12:47 pm
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Former FBI informant Alexander Smirnov agreed to plead guilty on Thursday to falsely claiming to federal agents that President Joe Biden and his son Hunter once accepted millions of dollars in bribes from a Ukrainian oligarch.
Smirnov, who had worked as an informant for the FBI since 2010, admitted to making the false statements to the FBI and to evading taxes on more than $2 million in unreported income from 2020 to 2022, according to a plea agreement Smirnov reached with special counsel David Weiss.
Weiss brought the indictment against Smirnov in February while the special counsel was also leading two prosecutions against Hunter Biden. Smirnov’s indictment, at the time, served as a massive blow to House Republicans, who used Smirnov’s claims about the Bidens to help justify their impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden.
Smirnov had reported to the FBI in June 2020 that Mykola Zlochevsky, the founder of Ukrainian energy company Burisma, paid Joe and Hunter Biden each $5 million while Joe Biden was vice president. The payments, Smirnov falsely claimed, were made in exchange for Joe Biden to use his political power to fire a Ukrainian prosecutor who was investigating Burisma.
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