Hunter Biden says special counsel used Alexander Smirnov's discredited bribery claims to derail his plea deal [View all]

[Kid Berwyn]

Does anyone know if Alexander Smirnov will be a witness in the Hunter Biden trial? If so, I hope Special Counsel David Weiss knows Smirnov has been working for Team Putin.

Hunter Biden says special counsel used Alexander Smirnov’s discredited bribery claims to derail his plea deal

by Hannah Rabinowitz and Holmes Lybrand
CNN, February 20, 2024

Hunter Biden’s lawyers accused special counsel David Weiss on Tuesday of using a since-discredited bribery allegation from an FBI informant to blow up his plea deal last year.

In a court filing Tuesday, attorneys for the president’s son asked a judge to force Weiss’ team to turn over additional information about the plea deal that went awry, and to provide materials about their discussions regarding a tip from by Alexander Smirnov, a 43-year-old former informant who was indicted for lying to the FBI about the Bidens’ alleged business dealings.

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“It now seems clear that the Smirnov allegations infected this case,” they wrote, adding that prosecutors followed Smirnov down a “rabbit hole of lies” and “having taken Mr. Smirnov’s bait of grand, sensational charges, the Diversion Agreement that had just been entered into and Plea Agreement that was on the verge of being finalized suddenly became inconvenient for the prosecution, and it reversed course and repudiated those Agreements.”

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In a statement Tuesday, Biden’s attorney Abbe Lowell said Weiss “has gone to extreme lengths to bring charges against Mr. Biden that would not have been filed against anyone else.”

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https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/20/politics/alexander-smirnov-hunter-biden/index.html

This Smirnov fellah is connected to the wrong side of the fence.

How clean is the dirt on Hunter Biden?

A key Republican source is charged with lying to the FBI

BY BRIAN SLODYSKO, ERIC TUCKER AND ANTHONY MCCARTNEY
Updated 5:40 PM EDT, March 4, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — Alexander Smirnov was cast by Republicans as one of the FBI’s most trusted informants, offering a “highly credible” account of brazen public corruption by Joe Biden that formed a pillar of the House impeachment investigation of the Democratic president.

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A MURKY PAST

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A dual Israeli and U.S. citizen, Smirnov moved to the United States in 2006, traveling in Los Angeles’ Eastern European expatriate circles for more than a decade while providing information to the FBI. It wasn’t immediately clear what investigations Smirnov may have contributed to, though he worked with an FBI handler based in Seattle and the indictment suggests he provided reporting related to “ROC” — a likely reference to Russian organized crime.

A short biography included in a corporate financial document from 2011 describes Smirnov as a veteran businessman “fluent in Russian, English, Hebrew and Arabic” who once was president of a “private mineral and logistic operation, with assets in Russia.”

‘I’LL TRY TO PROVE IT FOR YOU BRO’

“It’s all over the news in Russia and Ukraine” Smirnov texted his handler in May 2020. In another text at the time, he said, “I’ll try to prove it for you bro.”

He later said a Burisma official told him during the waning days of the Obama administration that Joe and Hunter Biden had each accepted $5 million bribes in exchange for a promise to alter U.S. policy in Burisma’s favor. Smirnov claimed recordings existed of a Burisma official being “forced” to pay.

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https://apnews.com/article/hunter-biden-fbi-informant-smirnov-ukraine-impeachment-113c1104052dbdc9302606f6d42c9939

Gee. A crooked business man fluent in money. How much has he gotten paid to set-up Hunter Biden?