FBI informant pleads guilty to lying about $10M Biden bribery payments to Joe, Hunter

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FBI informant pleads guilty to lying about $10M Biden bribery payments to Joe, Hunter​

FBI informant pleads guilty to lying about $10M Biden bribery payments to Joe, Hunter

A former FBI informant pleaded guilty on Thursday to lying about a $10 million bribe that a Ukrainian businessman paid to then-vice president Joe Biden and his son Hunter to “protect” his firm…

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12 Dec 2024 ~~ By Josh Christenson, Ryan King

A former FBI informant pleaded guilty on Thursday to lying about a $10 million bribe that a Ukrainian businessman paid to then-vice president Joe Biden and his son Hunter to “protect” his firm from a looming corruption investigation.
Alexander Smirnov, 43, entered into a plea agreement with special counsel David Weiss and confessed to having created “a false and fictitious record” as part of a multi-year federal probe into the Bidens.
The falsehoods included the bribery allegation, which was memorialized in an FBI FD-1023 form in 2020 and released by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) last year, and other aspects of Hunter Biden’s tenure on the board of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma.
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More specifically, Smirnov suggested to the FBI that an executive claimed to have taped Hunter Biden to “protect us, through his dad, from all kinds of problems,” according to court documents.
In total, Hunter Biden and his business partner Devon Archer, who also served on Burisma’s board, were paid $6.4 million between March 2014 and April 2019 by Zlochevsky’s firm, according to invoices and other documents found on his abandoned laptop.
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Congressional Democrats capitalized upon the indictment of Smirnov and used it as fodder against Republicans who were delving into his family’s business machinations as part of a House impeachment inquiry.
The FBI had trusted Smirnov as an informant for almost a decade, according to GOP lawmakers who pressed for the FBI FD-1023 form release.
GOP lawmakers, particularly on the House Oversight Committee, had battled the FBI for access to the FBI FD-1023 form, which are typically used to collect unverified but classified information from sources.
The Oversight panel had subpoenaed the FBI for access to that form and later threatened to push to hold the bureau’s director Christopher Wray in contempt. Eventually, Wray capitulated and allowed lawmakers to consult the document in a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF).
But the ordeal had been a key flashpoint in the House GOP’s efforts to probe alleged overseas influence peddling by the Biden family, as they and their associates raked in millions of dollars during and after Joe Biden’s vice presidency.

Commentary:
Mr. Smirnov seems to be one wealthy snitch. He seems to be perfectly positioned to say he "lied" about his Biden Syndicate getting a conviction and then quietly get his Biden pardon.
So, now the smirking Bidens can crow about their innocence.
This seems a midnight rushed deal as the lights are about to go out? There’s more there likely but who knows really? The whitewash moves fast as terms end? There are so many weird things surrounding that family.
If Hunter getting 83K/mo for a no show job is not a bribe, then what is it?
Follow the money. Was there a 10 million dollar or any amount of payout to any Biden’s from the Ukraine or not.
This article is too vague as to exactly what he stated and is guilty of vs the correlation of deposits in the Biden’s bank accounts.

 

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Smirnov was not in the picture when the Burisma shit was going on, and he just made the statements based on the information that was already public.

So he lied to the FBI, and will get his 2-month sentence or whatever for violating 18 USC 1001.

It does not exonerate the Bidens. The corruption is still just as corrupt as if Smirnov never existed.

 

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The falsehoods included the bribery allegation...

So the Bidens weren't bribed???