A former FBI informant pleaded guilty to lying about a fictitious bribery scheme involving President Joe Biden and his son Hunter, which has become central to the Republican Congress's impeachment investigation.
Transmitted by UNN with reference to Associated Press.
Former FBI informant Alexander Smirnov admitted in a plea deal that he lied about a Ukrainian company paying five million dollars each for political “cover” to Joe Biden and his son Hunter.
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Smirnov was accused of fabricating claims that the Ukrainian energy company Burisma paid millions of dollars in bribes to Hunter Biden, who was on Burisma's board of directors, and his father, who was then Barack Obama's vice president.
Aleksandr Smirnov pleaded guilty to charges of committing a criminal offense in connection with a false story.
Smirnov, a 44-year-old US-Israeli citizen, accepted another charge against him at a hearing on Monday in a federal court in Los Angeles: tax evasion on two million dollars of income. He pleaded guilty to a tax evasion charge in 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 next month's sentencing.
Smirnov will be credited with the time spent behind bars since his arrest in February.