Posted on 02/26/2024 1:08:59 AM PST by Libloather
The former FBI informant charged with lying about a $10 million-dollar bribery scheme involving President Joe Biden´s family is set to appear in a California federal court on Monday.
A judge will determine whether Alexander Smirnov, 43, must remain behind bars while he awaits trial.
Special counsel David Weiss' office is pressing U.S. District Judge Otis Wright II to keep Smirnov in jail, arguing the man who claims to have ties to Russian intelligence is likely to flee the country.
A different judge last week released Smirnov from jail on electronic GPS monitoring, but Wright ordered the man to be re-arrested after prosecutors asked to reconsider Smirnov's detention.
Wright said in a written order that Smirnov's lawyers' efforts to free him was 'likely to facilitate his absconding from the United States.'
In an emergency petition with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Smirnov's lawyers said Wright did not have the authority to order Smirnov to be re-arrested.
The defense also criticized what it described as 'biased and prejudicial statements' from Wright insinuating that Smirnov's lawyers were acting improperly by advocating for his release.
Smirnov is charged with falsely telling his FBI handler that executives from the Ukrainian energy company Burisma had paid President Biden and Hunter Biden $5 million each around 2015. The claim became central to the Republican impeachment inquiry of President Biden in Congress.
In urging the judge to keep Smirnov locked up, prosecutors said the man has reported to the FBI having contact with Russian intelligence-affiliated officials.
Prosecutors wrote in court filings last week that Smirnov told investigators after his first arrest that officials associated with Russian intelligence were involved in passing a story to him about Hunter Biden.
Smirnov, who holds dual Israeli-U.S. citizenship, is charged by the same Justice Department special counsel who...
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He should claim asylum. /s
He’s not lying over anything. They arrested him because he said something about Biden. Remember the warning they gave the innocent man who turned in the laptop. “Things go better for people who stay quiet”. Remember the “innocence of muslims” guy they locked up to blame the Benghazi attack on.
Remember James O’Keefe who was raided at 5am because he turned in Ashley’s diary where Biden molested her.
Bring to light anything negative about the Biden crime family and you get arrested. The FBI simply makes up a charge.
Is that the same Keystone Kops who said J-6 was an insurrection with no weapons?
Just like Jeffrey Epstein. Safe in jail…..yeah….
The DOJ is going to try to prevent releasing on bail for lying to the FBI???
Interesting, isn’t it how the different federal law enforcement groups come up with all sorts of way to help the Bidens?
Secret Service was right there to “collect” evidence from the the gun dealer that sold Hunter his revolver - even though it was clearly outside their purview.
DOJ prosecutors allow the statute of limitations to expire on multiple crimes committed by Hunter.
DOJ gives a heads up regarding an IRS raid on Hunter’s storage unit.
DOJ attorneys prevent investigations into The Big Guy by the IRS.
The Treasury department is refusing to provide HoR information on the Bidens’ suspicious activity reports regarding the receipt of million of dollars of foreign money.
National Archivist balks at providing HoR documents regarding The Big Guys time in the Senate and VPOTUS.
Special Counsel Hur decides not to prosecute The Big Guy for what should have been literally thousands of charges (remember, each document is a separate charge - ask DJT) of theft and possession of classified documents, perjury (all government officials have to sign the “under penalty of perjury” they’ve returned all that belongs to the government upon their separation), espionage (you’re not supposed to disclose or share classified documents), not to mention all the other financial and bribery crime committed.
Got a (not so) funny feeling Smirnoff might accidentally fall down some stairs before he has a chance to defend himself.
Going “off script” can be fatal.
Wasn’t Alexander Smirnov a trusted FBI informant for years even Wray stated the he could trusted now that dirt shows up on Biden he goes down the swamp ha to much power.
Arrested… for ..LYING??
Has he ever jay-walked?
Spit out gum onto a sidewalk?
Not held a door open for a lady??
Good Lord, WHEN are the people of this nation gonna wake up???
Today, it’s HIM; tomorrow - it’ll be US.
Didn’t Hump-her Biden get a million-dollar-a-year bribe from Burisma?
eff this banana republic that we live in.
Tara Reade escaped to the free country of Russia.
“The Friends of Biden, Incorporated”, that’s why.
“...He was accompanied from court by his cousin, Linor Shefer, who works for a real estate developer in business with Donald Trump.
Shefer, a 38-year-old Israeli-American, was a former contestant on the Israeli version of reality show Big Brother, and in 2014 won the Moscow beauty pageant ‘Miss Jewish Star’.
According to her LinkedIn page, she has been an ‘Inhouse Consultant’ for Dezer Development in Miami, Florida since 2022.
Dezer partnered with Trump’s organization to develop the $600 million Trump Grande Ocean Resort and Residences and $900 million Trump Towers. The company is run by Gil Dezer, and founded by his Israeli-American billionaire father Michael, who is a Trump donor.”
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