One of the most disturbing scandals of the Hunter Biden saga is the imprisonment without trial of former FBI informant Alexander Smirnov.
The Ukrainian-born Israeli-American, who once told his FBI handler about Ukrainian claims of a $10 million bribe to the Bidens, has been languishing in a Los Angeles prison for nine months on charges that he lied to the FBI.
Joe managed to evade impeachment over his family’s influence-peddling schemes — in part because of the Smirnov indictment — and is expected either to pardon his son or commute Hunter’s twin sentences next month in felony gun and tax-fraud cases. His lawyers have told the court that any inconsistencies in his information as recorded by the FBI were not lies told by him, but errors made by his handler, whom they accuse of “shoddy work and negligent record keeping.”
Brady judged the allegations sufficiently credible to send the Smirnov file for further review to Delaware US Attorney David Weiss, who was in charge of the five-year investigation into Hunter over potential tax, money-laundering and foreign-agent violations. It was only when an FBI whistleblower gave a copy of the Smirnov FD-1023 to Sen. Chuck Grassley in 2023 that the allegations came to light.
Smirnov’s arrest in February came at a convenient time for the Bidens and successfully blunted the attack by House Republicans hoping to impeach Joe.
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