FBI Informant’s False Statements Allegedly Misrepresented Biden Business Dealings

The recent developments in the ongoing investigation into the business dealings of President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, have taken an unexpected turn. According to a grand jury indictment unsealed in the Central District of California, a former FBI informant, Alexander Smirnov, has been charged with making false statements and creating a fictitious record regarding the business dealings of the Bidens.

Smirnov, a 43-year-old individual, began speaking with the FBI in 2017 about Burisma Holdings, Limited, a Ukrainian holding company that hired Hunter Biden to serve on its board. However, the indictment alleges that Smirnov made false statements to the FBI about two meetings that took place in 2015 or 2016. In these meetings, Smirnov claimed that he was told that Hunter Biden was being paid to protect the company through his father, Joe Biden, who was then the Vice President of the United States.

The indictment further alleges that Smirnov falsely claimed that the company had paid $5 million each to a public official and a businessperson to secure their influence. The public official and businessperson in question are believed to be President Biden and a business associate, respectively.

It is important to note that the indictment does not explicitly name President Biden or Hunter Biden. However, the descriptions in the court papers match their identities. The false statements were made to the FBI in June 2020, when Joe Biden was a presidential candidate.

The special counsel, David Weiss, alleged that Smirnov’s statements were false, as he knew that he had first met with officials from Burisma in 2017, after Joe Biden had left office in January 2017, and after the Ukrainian Prosecutor General had been fired in February 2016.

Smirnov continued to make false statements to federal investigators until September 2023. During this time, he repeated his false claims, changed his story, and promoted a new false narrative after he claimed to have met with Russian officials.

The special counsel accused Smirnov of expressing a bias against Joe Biden in May 2020 text messages with his FBI handler, expressing a view that the then-presidential candidate was “going to jail.”

The FBI 1023 that the special counsel alleges was based on Smirnov’s false information correlates with an investigative document that drew intense scrutiny from congressional Republicans over the last year. The document was alleged to point to misdeeds by Joe Biden and his son. However, Weiss’ indictment appears to rebut this claim, alleging that Smirnov “transformed his routine and unextraordinary business contacts with Burisma in 2017 and later into bribery allegations against Public Official 1, the presumptive nominee of one of the two major political parties for President, after expressing bias against Public Official 1 and his candidacy.”

An attorney for the defendant could not be immediately identified.

Hunter Biden, the president’s son, has been charged with nine federal tax charges for what the special counsel alleges was a “four-year scheme” to avoid paying at least $1.4 million in federal taxes. Weiss, who was appointed U.S. attorney for Delaware by former President Donald Trump and named special counsel by Attorney General Merrick Garland in 2023, charged Hunter Biden with three felony gun charges in the state of Delaware that are related to his alleged unlawful possession of a firearm. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges.

Responding to Thursday’s charges, Hunter Biden’s attorney, Abbe Lowell, said in a statement, “For months we have warned that Republicans have built their conspiracies about Hunter and his family on lies told by people with political agendas, not facts. We were right and the air is out of their balloon.”

The investigation into the Bidens’ business dealings is ongoing, and more developments are expected in the coming weeks and months. The public will continue to follow this story closely as new information comes to light.

In conclusion, the recent indictment of Alexander Smirnov on charges of making false statements and creating a fictitious record regarding the business dealings of President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, has shed new light on the ongoing investigation. Smirnov’s false statements, which were made to the FBI in 2020, have been alleged to have misrepresented the nature of the business dealings and have drawn intense scrutiny from congressional Republicans. However, the special counsel’s indictment appears to rebut these claims, alleging that Smirnov transformed his routine business contacts into bribery allegations after expressing a bias against Joe Biden. The investigation into the Bidens’ business dealings is ongoing, and more developments are expected in the coming weeks and months.