An FBI informant was found guilty Thursday of lying about a $10 million bribe a Ukrainian businessman paid to then-Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter to “protect” his company from an impending corruption investigation. acknowledged.
Alexander Smirnov, 43, entered into a plea deal with special counsel David Weiss, confessing to creating “false and fictitious records” as part of the federal investigation into the Biden family.
The falsehoods include bribery allegations memorialized in an FBI FD-1023 form in 2020 and made public last year by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Hunter Biden's tenure on the board of Ukrainian gas company Burisma. Other aspects were included. .
Under the plea agreement filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, Smirnov faces up to six years in prison, one year of supervised release, and must pay $675,502 in restitution.
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