Alexander Smirnov, a former FBI confidential human source, has agreed to a plea deal in which he will plead guilty to fabricating allegations about President Joe Biden and his son Hunter, court filings revealed on Thursday.
Smirnov claimed in 2020 that Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company, paid Joe and Hunter Biden $5 million each to halt criminal investigations into the organization.
“The events Defendant first reported to the Handler in June 2020 were fabrications,” the plea documents state.
“The events Defendant first reported to the Handler in June 2020 were fabrications. Defendant 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…
