Alexander Smirnov, the California man charged with lying to the FBI about fabricated criminal allegations against President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, has agreed to plead guilty, according to a Thursday filing with the court.
Smirnov was a longtime confidential informant who had been feeding his FBI handler information about an array of criminal activities. In 2020, he apparently decided to use the accumulated trust to tell the handler that the Bidens had each accepted $5 million in bribes from the Ukrainian energy company Burisma several years earlier. Hunter Biden sat on Burisma's board of directors from 2014 to 2018, which President-elect Donald Trump and right-wing outlets frequently used as evidence of impropriety throughout the 2020 election in an attempt to smear the president.
