A judge sentenced ex FBI informant Alexander Smirnov to six years in prison for falsely claiming to the FBI in 2020 that Joe and Hunter Biden accepted bribes.
Alexander Smirnov falsely claimed to his FBI handler that executives from the Ukrainian energy company Burisma paid Biden and his son $5 million each around 2015.
A former FBI informant who admitted to lying about U.S. President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden’s interactions with a Ukrainian energy company was sentenced to six years in prison on Wednesday, court records showed.
Alexander Smirnov may not be a household name, but his prison sentence represents a stunning fiasco for some prominent Republicans in Congress.
No evidence emerged that the allegations against the Bidens were true, but the story was taken up by some Republicans, who made the unverified claims part of their effort to impeach President
The FBI has faced a handful of scandals under the Biden administration, including a New Year's Day terror attack that left more than a dozen people dead and others injured.
Former FBI informant has been sentenced to six years for fabricating bribery allegations involving President Biden and his son Hunter.
A federal judge gave the former informant the highest possible sentence under his plea agreement with prosecutors in special counsel David Weiss's office.
President Biden told a grieving New Orleans "you are not alone" as the nation stands with the city following the deadly New Year's Day attack.