The FBI and DOJs politically motivated persecution of a former informant all to protect the Bidens
One of the most disturbing scandals of the Hunter Biden saga is the imprisonment without trial of former FBI informant Alexander Smirnov. The Ukrainian-born Israeli-American, who once told his FBI handler about Ukrainian claims of a $10 million bribe to the Bidens, has been languishing in a Los Angeles prison for nine months on charges that he lied to the FBI. Last week, federal prosecutors slapped new tax-evasion charges on Smirnov, 43, which suggests they know their original indictment is too weak for a jury to convict him when he faces trial beginning Jan.8. Smirnov was one of the FBI’s most trusted confidential human sources, paid more than $100,000 during what his lawyers call “undivided, years-long loyalty to the United States” before he was thrown to the wolves in the middle of the Biden impeachment inquiry. He was arrested in February on charges that he “provided false derogatory information to the FBI in 2020 about Joseph Biden, who at the time was a candidate for president and had previously been the vice president. “The alleged false information concerned Joseph Biden’s and his son Hunter Biden’s involvement with Burisma Holdings Ltd., a Ukrainian energy business.” When the FBI searched Smirnov’s Las Vegas apartment, they found “a hat emblazoned with an anti- [Biden] euphemism” — presumably “Let’s Go Brandon” — which the indictment says demonstrates “bias” against Joe Biden and “bears on the defendant’s motive in providing the FBI with false derogatory information about” Joe. Joe managed to evade impeachment over his family’s influence-peddling schemes — in part because of the Smirnov indictment — and is expected either to pardon his son or commute Hunter’s twin sentences next month in felony gun and tax-fraud cases. Yet it is Smirnov who is under indictment, when he merely relayed to his FBI handler a conversation he claimed to have had about Hunter with Mykola Zlochevsky, the owner of Burisma.
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