A former FBI informant whose claims were cited by Republicans in their effort to impeach Joe Biden pleaded guilty Monday to fabricating allegations of corruption involving the president and his family, the Associated Press reported.
Alexander Smirnov was indicted in February for peddling false claims about Biden and his son, Hunter, supposedly receiving millions of dollars in bribes from a Ukrainian energy company, Burisma. The indictment was brought by special counsel David Weiss, a Trump-appointed prosecutor who led the investigation into Hunter Biden, who was himself charged with failing to report taxes and lying about his drug addiction while obtaining a firearm.
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