Posted on 12/12/2024 10:55:22 AM PST by Libloather
A former FBI informant pleaded guilty on Thursday to lying about a $10 million bribe that a Ukrainian businessman paid to then-vice president Joe Biden and his son Hunter to “protect” his firm from a looming corruption investigation.
Alexander Smirnov, 43, entered into a plea agreement with special counsel David Weiss and confessed to having created “a false and fictitious record” as part of a multi-year federal probe into the Bidens.
The falsehoods included the bribery allegation, which was memorialized in an FBI FD-1023 form in 2020 and released by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) last year, and other aspects of Hunter Biden’s tenure on the board of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma.
Smirnov faces up to six years in prison, one year of supervised release and must pay $675,502 in restitution, pursuant to the plea deal filed in US District Court for the Central District of California.
But prosecutors and the defense are expected to recommend at least two years in jail.
Under his agreement, he also pleaded guilty to charges of evading tax payments on $2.15 million in unreported income between 2020 and 2022, court filings indicated. Prosecutors had slapped the fresh tax evasion charges against Smirnov last month after being slapped with two felonies in February for his fabrications about the Biden-Burisma probe.
The dual US-Israeli citizen was detained by authorities that same month after having alleged that Joe and Hunter Biden received $5 million a pop from Burisma Holdings owner Mykola Zlochevsky in exchange for helping to oust former Ukrainian Prosecutor-General Viktor Shokin sometime between 2015 or 2016.
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He lied about a $10 million bribe?
I guess it must have been $20 million?
So the lower echelon go to jail but ..well, a good banana republic keeps the rel crooks insulated?
Article doesn’t make clear if the $10M payment took place or not.
Well, son of a bitch! Hunter got that million bucks a year gig for some reason. What could that possibly be for? 🤔
Nailed it!
Wasn’t Joe bragging about the bribe in video ?
CORRUPT DAVID WEISS SAYS THE BIDEN CRIME FAMILY DID NOT TAKE $10 MILLION DOLLARS IN BRIBES!! Smirnov LIED about it....YEAH....riiiiggghhhttt.
Maybe Trump or Elon will buy it all then sell it back to the govt cheap after taking office.
Hmm. Mr. Smirnov seems to be one wealthy snitch. He seems to be perfectly positioned to say he "lied" about his Biden Syndicate
reveal, get a conviction and then quietly get his Biden pardon.
So, now the smirking Bidens can crow about their innocence.
Yes, unfortunately.
i.e. The evidence may have been fabricated, but that doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. The money has been laundered through a dozen shell corps.
Some kind of plea bargain to hide the truth. That would be my guess.
FBI informant pleads guilty to lying about $10M Biden bribery payments to Joe, Hunter.
How convenient just as Joey is about to lose his power as he leaves the WH.
The informant must have a receives a or else message?.
“memorialized in an FBI FD-1023 form”
TRUST the FBI. they would never lie on their forms since they don’t record interrogations.
Was Hunter already pardoned for this? Probably.
MOST LIKELY” WELL OVER that amount.
That’s the starting bid multiplied by the number of items in each lot. Still criminal.
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