An FBI informant pleaded guilty on Thursday to lying about a $10 million bribe that a Ukrainian businessman paid to then-vice president Joe Biden and his son Hunter to “protect” his firm from a looming corruption investigation.
Alexander Smirnov, 43, entered into a plea agreement with special counsel David Weiss and confessed to having created “a false and fictitious record” as part of a federal probe into the Bidens.
The falsehoods included the bribery allegation, which was memorialized in an FBI FD-1023 form in 2020 and released by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) last year, and other aspects of Hunter Biden’s tenure on the board of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma.
Smirnov faces up to six years in prison, one year of supervised release and must pay $675,502 in restitution, pursuant to the plea deal filed in US District Court for the Central District of California.
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