WASHINGTON — Alexander Smirnov, the former FBI informant charged with lying to the FBI about President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden in statements that were at the “heart” of House Republicans’ ongoing impeachment inquiry, has been re-arrested by federal authorities, his attorneys said Thursday. Smirnov made an initial appearance in federal court in […]
Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo., claimed that top Republicans were warned about the debunked Biden claims from a former FBI informant before he was indicted for making up allegations that the Bidens took bribes. David Weiss, the special counsel who charged Hunter Biden with drug and tax violations, last week charged Alexander Smirnov with lying to […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The explosive allegations at the center of an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden were false, federal prosecutors said, and came from an ex-FBI informant who said he was in touch with Russian intelligence. The informant, Alexander Smirnov, is “actively peddling new lies that could impact U.S. elections,” federal prosecutors said Wednesday, […]
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 told federal agents that Russian intelligence officials fed him a story about Hunter Biden, prosecutors say. In a court filing Tuesday, they revealed that Alexander Smirnov, the former […]
WASHINGTON — Republicans deleted a reference to a discredited FBI informant in a letter they sent on Tuesday to a potential witness in their impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden. Republican interview request letters typically spell out the basis for their investigation, including with a paragraph describing a credible confidential human source’s conversations with a […]
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A former FBI informant charged with making up a multimillion-dollar bribery scheme involving President Joe Biden, his son Hunter and a Ukrainian energy company had contacts with officials affiliated with Russian intelligence, prosecutors said in a court paper Tuesday. Prosecutors revealed the alleged contact as they urged a judge to keep […]
LAS VEGAS — The former FBI informant who allegedly fed the bureau false information about President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden during the 2020 presidential campaign is set to appear at a detention hearing in a federal courtroom in Las Vegas on Tuesday. Alexander Smirnov, a 43-year-old who had been working as a […]
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A former FBI informant charged with making up a multimillion-dollar bribery scheme involving President Joe Biden, his son Hunter and a Ukrainian energy company had contacts with officials affiliated with Russian intelligence, prosecutors said in a court paper Tuesday. Prosecutors revealed the alleged contact as they urged a judge to keep […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hunter Biden ’s lawyers suggested Tuesday that claims made by a former FBI informant charged with fabricating a bribery scheme involving the presidential family may have tainted the case against the president’s son. The gun and tax charges against Hunter Biden are separate from the claims made by the informant, Alexander Smirnov, […]
Attorneys for the president’s son say an FBI informant’s lies have “infected” the case against their client. Hunter Biden faces federal charges for having failed to pay his taxes on time and for illegally owning a gun when he was addicted to crack cocaine. A plea deal and diversion agreement collapsed last summer over a […]
WASHINGTON – Justice Department Special Counsel David Weiss indicted an ex-FBI informant on Thursday evening for allegedly lying about President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden’s involvement with Burisma, a Ukrainian energy firm. Alexander Smirnov, 43, was arrested on Wednesday at the Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas after a federal grand jury […]
WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans put a defiant face on Friday after the revelation that an FBI informant — the man whose allegations were at the “heart” of their case against President Joe Biden, as one leading House Republican recently said — had been indicted for lying to the bureau about the president and his son […]