A witness has told the House Ethics Committee that Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz paid her for sex, a report alleges. Investigators with the committee have conducted a number of interviews behind closed doors with women who were witnesses in the sex trafficking investigation conducted by the Department of Justice, according to ABC News. The […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court on Wednesday rejected a bid to release from jail a former FBI informant who is charged with fabricating a multimillion-dollar bribery scheme involving President Joe Biden’s family. Alexander Smirnov ‘s lawyers had urged the California-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn a lower court judge’s order […]
An informant who has spent most of the last three decades in and out of lockups has helped send two men to prison for life in separate cases in Georgia — and is now a target of lawyers who say he made false claims in an attempt to spare himself time behind bars. Sterling Flint, […]
NEW CASTLE, Ind. — Two New Castle residents have been accused of repeatedly selling meth to informants for the Henry County Area Drug Task Force. Cierra Don Daniels, 31, and Sean M. Heatherly, 48, both of the 300 block of South 22nd Street, are each charged in Henry Circuit Court 2 with three counts of […]
WASHINGTON ― Republicans in Congress want answers from the FBI after basing their impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden largely on faulty information from an FBI informant. In a letter to FBI director Christopher Wray on Friday, Republicans asked for documents showing how they vetted the informant and how much they paid him ― and […]
Editor’s Note: A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. Sign up for the daily digest chronicling the evolving media landscape here. The White House is formally calling on Fox News to walk back its coverage of bribery and corruption allegations against President Joe Biden. In a letter sent to the […]
The former FBI informant who was charged with providing false information to agents about President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden during the 2020 presidential campaign is scheduled to face trial in April. Alexander Smirnov, 43, will face a jury trial on April 23 before U.S. District Judge Otis Wright in Los Angeles, according […]
A former FBI informant accused of lying about President Biden and his son Hunter’s dealings with the Ukrainian energy company Burisma will remain behind bars, a federal judge in Los Angeles ruled Monday. Following a 40-minute hearing, U.S. District Judge Otis Wright II said he was concerned that Smirnov might flee while awaiting trial on […]
Former FBI informant Alexander Smirnov, who was charged with providing false claims about Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden during the 2020 presidential campaign to the bureau, is scheduled to appear for a hearing in a California federal court Monday as a judge weighs whether to keep him in jail. A federal judge in […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former FBI informant charged with fabricating a multimillion-dollar bribery scheme involving President Joe Biden’s family is set to appear in a California federal court on Monday as a judge considers whether he must remain behind bars while he awaits trial. Special counsel David Weiss’ office is pressing U.S. District Judge […]
The former FBI informant who was charged last week with making up false bribery claims central to the effort by Republicans in Congress to impeach President Biden was rearrested Thursday in Las Vegas. Alexander Smirnov, 43, was taken into custody inside the law office of his attorneys, David Z. Chesnoff and Richard A. Schonfeld, they […]
Republican “ineptitude” in attempts to impeach Joe Biden left the party embarrassed when a key source was revealed this week not only to have lied to the FBI but to have links to Russian intelligence, a leading House Democrat has said. “It demonstrates chairman Comer and chairman Jordan’s ineptitude in dealing with an investigation that […]