Wendy SiegelmanDec 12, 2024

Ex-FBI informant Alexander Smirnov who was charged with lying to the FBI about fake criminal allegations against President Biden and his son Hunter is pleading guilty to falsifying a federal FBI record and to three tax-related counts in a recent indictment

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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alexander-smirnov-pleads-guilty-bidens-fbi-informant/

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Ex-FBI informant Alexander Smirnov pleads guilty to lying about the Bidens

A California man who was charged with lying to the FBI​ about fake criminal allegations against President Biden and his son Hunter is pleading guilty.

Show threadWendy Siegelman

From Alexander Smirnov plea agreement:

"Defendant transformed his routine and unextraordinary business contacts with Burisma in 2017 and later into bribery allegations against Public Official 1 (Biden)"

"Defendant repeated some of his false claims, changed his story as to other of his claims, and promoted a new false narrative about the son of Public Official 1 after he met with Russian intelligence officials."

#AlexanderSmirnov

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cacd.915063/gov.uscourts.cacd.915063.195.0_1.pdf

Dec 12, 2024 at 9:26pmWeb
Show threadWendy SiegelmanDec 12, 2024

A note that information on Alexander Smirnov sharing falsified information from Russian intelligence sources was reported before - this is from a Feb 2024 WSJ article:

"Prosecutors now say the Biden allegations were fabrications, and Smirnov recently acknowledged that one story about Hunter Biden came from Russian intelligence sources."

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/informant-charged-with-lying-about-bidens-flaunted-fbi-ties-for-financial-gain-fcf86af2

Show threadone non-non-blondeDec 13, 2024
@wendysiegelman the Russian State is the GOP of the world in the sense that they are talented at ruining other places and shit at taking care of their own.