A former FBI informant charged with lying about US President Joe Biden and his son Hunter has reached a plea deal with prosecutors, according to court documents released Thursday. Alexander Smirnov, 44, has agreed to plead guilty to one count of providing false information in a federal investigation and tax evasion, according to the filing with a district court in …
Alexander Smirnov has been given a plea deal after he spent years lying about President Joe Biden and his son Hunter, which resulted in a years-long investigation by Republicans in Congress, flagged national security expert Marcy Wheeler. House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, Sen. Chuck Grassley, and former Attorney General Bill Barr all bought into the false claims, resulting in …
LOADING ERROR LOADING The former FBI informant accused of making false claims that sparked the GOP impeachment inquiry of President Joe Biden was indicted last week on federal charges accusing him of hiding millions of dollars of income when doing his taxes. Alexander Smirnov, an FBI informant charged with lying to officials about an alleged multimillion-dollar bribery scheme involving President …
A key informant for House Republicans' impeachment case against President Joe Biden has been indicted again, reported NBC News — this time on 10 charges of tax fraud. According to the report, federal prosecutors said that Alexander Smirnov received more than $2 million in income from "multiple sources in 2020, 2021, and 2022” and bought “a $1.4 million Las Vegas …
A former FBI informant pleaded not guilty on Monday to lying to federal agents about President Biden and his son Hunter’s dealings with the Ukrainian energy company Burisma, and a judge in Los Angeles ordered the informant to remain behind bars. “Thus, Smirnov’s efforts to spread misinformation about a candidate of one of the two major parties in the United …