An FBI informant has been charged with lying to his handler about ties between President Joe Biden, his son Hunter and a Ukrainian energy company.
Alexander Smirnov falsely told FBI agents in June 2020 that executives associated with the Ukrainian energy company Burisma paid Hunter and Joe Biden $5 million each in 2015 or 2016, prosecutors said Thursday.
Smirnov told the FBI that a Burisma executive had claimed to have hired Hunter Biden to “protect us, through his dad, from all kinds of problems,” prosecutors said.
The allegations became a flashpoint in Congress last summer as Republicans demanded the FBI release the unredacted form documenting the allegations as they pursued investigations of Biden and his family. They acknowledged at the time that it was unclear if the allegations were true.
Prosecutors say that though Smirnov claimed to have had contact with Burisma executives near the end of the Obama administration, it actually took place after Obama and Biden had left office — when Biden would have had no ability to influence U.S. policy.
“In short, the Defendant transformed his routine and unextraordinary business contacts with Burisma in 2017 and later into bribery allegations against Public Official 1, the presumptive nominee of one of the two major political parties for President, after expressing bias against Public Official 1 and his candidacy,” the indictment said.
He repeated some of the false claims when he was interviewed by FBI agents in September 2023 and changed his story about others and “promoted a new false narrative after he said he met with Russian officials,” prosecutors said.
Smirnov, 43, was indicted on charges of making a false statement and creating a false and fictitious record. No attorney was immediately listed for him in court records. He was expected to make a first court appearance in Las Vegas, where he was arrested Wednesday after arriving from overseas, prosecutors said.
If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of 25 years in prison.
The charges were filed by Justice Department special counsel David Wiess, who has separately charged Hunter Biden with firearm and tax violations.
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Looks like a saga in the White House Cosa nostra. If you want something down right do it yourself. WHAT IDIOTS HAVE THE LEFT PUT IN CHARGE OF THE HEN HOUSE?????
The Pelosi hen house ( toilet) is loaded with octagitatisn cosa nostra criminals. Nadler Waters etc etc
Is this the same FBI informant that was deemed very reliable and paid six figures by the FBI ??? And are we seeing more political BS by the crime family Biden at the WH ?
You guys are all wrong….The real investigation should be “who paid this guy to lie and raise false testimonies against Hunter and Joe”….follow the money
Nobody goes and perjure themselves against powerful figures without some incentives$$$$$
Sure Herman vatever you you imagine
No, I believe in evidences. With all the clocking you right wing chickens are doing, did they found any evidences ? NOPE, NONE, ZIP, NADA
Now, with Trump, we have videos, recording from telephone calls, documents, testimony from his own minions of just about every of his wrong doings…..and nevertheless the “salt of the earth” of this country (AKA Morons) still support him.
The current Republican establishment lacks any integrity and lives in a world of lies and deception….this is very far from the Republican party I joined when I became a citizen in 1976
The only person I know of that did things like this – paid people to lie, make false reports and dossiers – is Hillery.
Hillary have survived 33 Republican investigations without a single indictment. Just because the Steel Dossier was found to be lacking in solid evidences, it does not make it false…and also nobody have said or even suggested Hillary had any direct involvement with it
Just because you “wish it” true is not……..do you know the afterlife punishment for raising false testimonies? Not in doubt that you will……prepare yourself for it
Hillary and slick are as guilty as Biden crime family but also lying as shole Democ🐀bastrds
Dude, put the crackpipe and the vodka-rocks down as your hallucinating.
Heinrich is on drugs