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JUST IN: Ex-FBI Informant Pleads Guilty To Lying About Biden Family’s Overseas Dealings
An FBI informant who falsely testified that he witnessed the Biden family accept $5 million in bribes from the Ukrainian energy company Burisma has pleaded guilty, bringing the scandalous saga to one of its final chapters.
Alexander Smirnov, who first made the claims in 2020, entered a guilty plea for the crime of fabricating criminal allegations against President Joe Biden and his son Hunter, according to a California court filing obtained by JustTheNews. The case, prosecuted by Justice Department special counsel David Weiss, has been ongoing since February and comes less than a week after Biden issued a blanket pardon to his son that covers the period of time when he sat on Burisma’s board. It was during this time, Smirnov testified in 2020, that the father-son duo accepted $5 million from company executives to help pressure the Ukrainian government to fire a local prosecutor investigating them. Those statements turned out to be false, “as the Defendant knew.”
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Breaking: Former FBI informant Alexander Smirnov pleads guilty to lying to agency about the Bidens https://t.co/mABf61SI8p
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Entanglements in overseas business dealings became a running theme of the presidential election as President-elect Donald Trump pilloried President Biden over allegations by Smirnov that he participated in a bribery scheme to influence the Ukrainian government while serving as vice president. An ensuing Republican-led congressional investigation uncovered evidence of Hunter leaning on his family name to make business dealings with autocrats and oligarchs in other adversarial nations like Russia and China, in some cases dialing his father into the meetings to flex his lobbying muscle. Some of these interactions were alerted to the Obama administration, but most were not, according to White House emails obtained from 2014.
Before his pardon, Hunter Biden was being prosecuted for tax fraud while living in California. The case, led by Weiss, the special counsel, centered around partial income he made while at Burisma that went unreported to the IRS. President Biden’s pardon effectively impedes the government’s ability to collect millions of dollars in unpaid taxes owed by his son. A felony gun conviction in Delaware will also be expunged.
Although the ground truth about the Biden family’s overseas business dealings may never be fully known, and was indeed tainted by false testimony by Smirnov, the deals undoubtedly played a significant role in helping President-elect Trump win his second election. With the help of congressional Republicans like House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY), “Biden Crime Family” became a sobriquet for the president and his son, constantly reminding voters about the tendency for Biden to say one thing about respecting justice but doing another when it came to his kin.
The dichotomy was alluded to this week when Anita Dunn, a longtime advisor to the president, admitted that his decision to pardon Hunter was made internally by the family and forwent all consideration of political optics. “I think many observers are concerned about a president who ran to restore the rule of law, who has upheld the rule of law, who has really defended the rule of law, kind of saying, ‘well, maybe not right now,'” she said about Biden’s pardon of Hunter.
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