An ex-FBI informant who was previously charged with lying to the FBI about Joe and Hunter Biden has pleaded guilty in a federal court.

Alexander Smirnov has pleaded guilty to lying to Federal officials regarding his claims that Joe and Hunter Biden were each paid a $5 million bribe by a Ukrainian oligarch.

Smirnov’s guilty plea was part of a plea deal.

The former FBI informant now faces 48 to 72 months in federal prison.

Ex-FBI informant Alexander Smirnov pleads guilty to lying about Joe Biden and Hunter bribes https://t.co/h5PnWCPR3y pic.twitter.com/TCzi6AjEy8

— Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) December 12, 2024

BREAKING: FBI source accused of lying about Pres. Joe Biden/Hunter Biden corruption enters plea deal with special counsel. Doc: https://t.co/HKLyS4HtkD

— Josh Gerstein (@joshgerstein) December 12, 2024

Per The New York Times:

A former F.B.I. informant accused of fabricating a claim that President Biden and his son Hunter were each paid a $5 million bribe by a Ukrainian oligarch has agreed to plead guilty to a range of federal charges, according to a court filing on Thursday.

Alexander Smirnov, a profiteer, fixer and gossip based in Las Vegas, reached a deal with the special counsel overseeing the investigation into Hunter Biden, David C. Weiss, that could lead to 48 to 72 months in prison, according to the filing in federal court in California.

The deal comes weeks after Mr. Weiss charged Mr. Smirnov with tax evasion following his indictment in February on charges that he lied to investigators about the Bidens.

A federal judge could review the deal as soon as Monday.

At the time he was arrested, Mr. Smirnov, 43, was preparing to leave for what prosecutors called “a monthslong, multicountry foreign trip” during which he claimed to have plans to meet with contacts from multiple foreign intelligence agencies.

The FBI hired Alexander Smirnov, an Israeli citizen, 14 years ago to spy for the US. He was contractually allowed to break the law on the FBI’s behalf. When he alerted the FBI Joe and Hunter were receiving millions from Burisma the FBI buried the report. Now that Congress has it… pic.twitter.com/DSMBNH3as0

— @amuse (@amuse) February 21, 2024

Check out what CBS reported:

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, according to an agreement filed in federal court on Thursday.

Alexander Smirnov was indicted in February by special counsel David Weiss, who was appointed to lead the now-defunct investigations into Hunter Biden. The president pardoned his son earlier this month.

A longtime confidential informant, Smirnov told his FBI handler in 2020 that the two Bidens each accepted $5 million from the Ukrainian energy company Burisma several years earlier. The claims “were false, as the Defendant knew,” according to the charging documents filed against him.

The fake allegations were memorialized in an FBI document that became a central piece of evidence in congressional Republicans’ efforts to investigate the Biden family.

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