FBI informant arrested for sickening betrayal involving Biden
Hunter and Joe can’t seem to keep their names out of the news. Now the FBI is involved.
And an FBI informant was arrested for a sickening betrayal involving Biden.
Special Counsel David Weiss accused a former FBI informant of lying about President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden’s business involvement with the Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma.
Weiss, who has charged Hunter Biden with six felonies and six misdemeanors in two separate criminal investigations, charged Alexander Smirnov with 18 U.S.C. § 1001: false statement, and 18 U.S.C. § 1519: creating a false and fictitious record, related to allegedly false information that he gave to his FBI handler about the Bidens.
According to the indictment, Smirnov was cautioned by his FBI handler almost two dozen times over a decade that the information he was providing to the Bureau had to be genuine or he would face criminal charges.
He was arrested on Thursday at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas after coming from overseas.
Smirnov provided the Handler with information he knew was being used in multiple FBI criminal investigations.
According to the accusation, he was permitted by U.S. officials to engage in certain criminal activities in order to assist law enforcement in their investigations.
Smirnov “provided false derogatory information to the FBI” about Joe Biden after he started his 2020 presidential campaign, according to the indictment.
The indictment described the story Smirnov told his handler:
Three years later, in June 2020, the Defendant reported, for the first time, two meetings in 2015 and/or 2016, during the Obama-Biden Administration, in which he claimed executives associated with Burisma, including Burisma Official 1, admitted to him that they hired [Hunter Biden] to “protect us, through his dad, from all kinds of problems,” and later that they had specifically paid $5 million each to [then-Vice President Joe Biden] and [Hunter Biden], when [Joe Biden] was still in office, so that “[Hunter Biden] will take care of all those issues through his dad,” referring to a criminal investigation being conducted by the then-Ukrainian Prosecutor General into Burisma and to “deal with [the then-Ukrainian Prosecutor General].”
[Smirnov] also reported two purported phone calls between himself and Burisma Official 1 wherein Burisma Official 1 stated that he had been forced to pay [Joe Biden] and [Hunter Biden] and that it would take investigators 10 years to find records of illicit payments to Public Official 1.
The indictment stated that the claims Smirnov made to his handler in June 2020 were “fabrications.”
“In truth and fact, [Smirnov] had contact with executives from Burisma in 2017, after the end of the Obama-Biden Administration and after the then Ukrainian Prosecutor General had been fired in February 2016, in other words, when [Joe Biden] had no ability to influence U.S. policy and when the Prosecutor General was no longer in office,” according to the indictment.
According to the report, “In short, [Smirnov] transformed his routine and unextraordinary business contacts with Burisma in 2017 and later into bribery allegations against [Joe Biden], the presumptive nominee of one of the two major political parties for President, after expressing bias against [Joe Biden] and his candidacy.”
As much as there is evidence against the Bidens, Smirnov’s false accusations do nothing to further his prosecution.
If anything, this just distracts from the credible allegations leveled against the Biden family.
But that may be just why he’s being arrested now.
It’s the perfect fodder to pretend Biden has been setup right before the election.
Stay tuned to the DC Daily Journal.
