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-Lurid Crime Tales-

US seeks release of Israeli ex-FBI source who spread lies about Joe and Hunter Biden

2025-04-12

[IsraelTimes] Government joins defense to request dual national Alexander Smirnov, 44, be let out of jail as he appeals conviction, after false claims former US president and son took bribes

The United States government wants an American-Israeli former FBI informant who fabricated a story about former US president Joe The Big Guy Biden
Joe <q>The Big Guy</q> Biden

...46th president of the U.S. I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass....
and his son Hunter taking bribes to be released from prison while he appeals his conviction, it was revealed Thursday in court records.

Are you sure that it’s not true? The Bidens, père et fils, were pretty corrupt…

Alexander Smirnov, 44, was sentenced to six years in prison in early January after pleading guilty in Los Angeles federal US court to tax evasion and lying to the FBI about the phony bribery scheme, which was described by prosecutors at the time as an effort to influence the outcome of the 2020 US presidential election.

Smirnov had been prosecuted by former US Justice Department special counsel David Weiss, who resigned in January just days before US President Donald Trump
...They hit him with slander, they impeached him twice. Nancy Pelosi tore up his State of the Union address on national TV. They stole an election and put his adherents in jail. They vilified him. They couldn't crucify him, so they shot him. Still, they can't keep him down...
returned to the White House for his second term. Smirnov’s case was reassigned Thursday to a new federal prosecutor, who jointly filed a motion the same day with Smirnov’s attorneys seeking his release, court records show.

In the motion, the US government said it will review its "theory of the case." The motion also notes that Smirnov’s release from custody would allow him to receive proper treatment for health issues related to his eyes.

Smirnov has been in jug since February 2024. He was arrested at the Las Vegas airport after returning to the US from overseas.

A hearing on the motion was not immediately scheduled Thursday.

Smirnov had falsely claimed to his FBI handler that around 2015, executives from the Ukrainian energy company Burisma paid then-US vice president Biden and his son $5 million each.

The explosive claim in 2020 came after Smirnov expressed "bias" about Biden as a US presidential candidate, according to prosecutors at the time. In reality, Sherlocks found Smirnov had only routine business dealings with Burisma starting in 2017 — after Biden’s term as US vice president.

Authorities said Smirnov’s false claim "set off a firestorm in Congress" when it resurfaced years later as part of the House impeachment inquiry into Biden, who won the presidency over Trump in 2020. The Biden administration dismissed the impeachment effort as a "stunt."

Weiss also brought gun and tax charges against Hunter Biden, who was supposed to be sentenced in December after being convicted at a trial in the gun case and pleading guilty to tax charges. But he was pardoned by his father, who said he believed "raw politics has infected this process and it led to a miscarriage of justice."

Posted by:trailing wife

#5 So can we get the FBI interview with Brandon which they said couldn't be released because it might possibly be used politically?

Posted by: swksvolFF 2025-04-12 12:21

#4 /\ Never talk to the Federales without your lawyer present.

Posted by: Besoeker 2025-04-12 11:53

#3 Whatever law it is that makes lying to the FBI a crime should be repealed because too many times we find it was the FBI that lied. The FBI can fabricate evidence that the truth is a lie. They can also alter the notes from an interview and claim that an interviewee lied when in fact he or she was telling the truth. Then they commit lawfare on behalf of corrupt politicians, put an innocent person in jail and ruin his or her reputation for telling the truth. This is why we don't trust the FBI anymore.

Posted by: Abu Uluque 2025-04-12 11:45

#2 So, was he lying about Bidens?

Posted by: Grom the Affective 2025-04-12 11:32

#1 which was described by prosecutors at the time as an effort to influence the outcome of the 2020 US presidential election.

So was talking about his senility. Or Hunter's underage hooker and blow proclivities. Or Kamala's sleeping habits.

Posted by: swksvolFF 2025-04-12 11:29

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