Alexander Smirnov pleads guilty to lying about Joe Biden, son Hunter accepted bribes
Story by Bart Jansen, USA TODAY • 17h
How will Hunter Biden's pardon impact future presidential pardons? Here's what we know.
Alexander Smirnov, the former FBI informant charged with lying about Hunter Biden’s overseas business deals, pleaded guilty on Monday in Los Angeles to federal charges of making a false claim and tax evasion.
Smirnov, a native of Ukraine, faces up to 35 years in prison and a $1 million fine for the four counts. But federal sentencing guidelines call for a term of four to six years in prison when U.S. District Judge Otis Wright sentences him. Smirnov also agreed to pay $2.15 million in back taxes.
Smirnov had been jailed since he was indicted in February with two counts of making a false statement and creating a false and fictitious record for information he fed the FBI. He was accused of falsely claiming to the FBI that executives of Ukrainian energy firm Burisma admitted to him in 2015 and 2016 that they hired Biden to “protect us, through his dad, from all kinds of problems." Biden was a Burisma board member.
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