Ex-FBI informant admitted to lying about bribes to Biden from Burisma

A former FBI informant has pleaded guilty to lying about a bogus bribery scheme involving President Joe Biden and his son Hunter, which has become central to the Republican congressional impeachment inquiry into the president.

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Former FBI informant Oleksandr Smirnov, as part of a deal with the prosecution, admitted that he lied that a Ukrainian company had paid five million dollars each for political “covering” of Joe Biden and his son Hunter.

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Smirnov was accused of fabricating claims that the Ukrainian energy company Burisma had paid millions of dollars in bribes to Hunter Biden, who was on Burisma’s board of directors, and his father, who was Barack Obama’s vice president at the time.

Oleksandr Smirnov pleaded guilty to the charge of committing a criminal offense in connection with a false story.

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Smirnov, a 44-year-old citizen of the United States and Israel, pleaded guilty to another charge of evading taxes on two million dollars in income at a hearing on Monday in federal court in Los Angeles. He pleaded guilty to a charge of tax evasion: a case involving the concealment of millions of dollars in income.

Prosecutors and the defense have agreed to recommend a sentence of four to six years in prison at sentencing next month.

Smirnov will be credited with time spent behind bars since his arrest in February.

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