OAN Staff James Myers
8:54am – Thursday, December 12, 2024
An FBI informant said Thursday that a Ukrainian businessman lied about a $10 million bribe he paid to then-Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter to “protect” his company from a corruption investigation. , pled guilty to four federal charges.
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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 “false and fictitious records” created by Smirnov also include three charges of tax evasion.
The lies include bribery allegations memorialized in an FBI FD-1023 form in 2020 and made public last year by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and others from Hunter Biden's tenure on the board of Ukrainian gas company Burisma. aspects were included.
Meanwhile, prosecutors may recommend a sentence of 48 to 72 months in prison, a year of supervised release and about $675,000 in restitution, documents show.
However, under a 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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