A longtime FBI informant accused in an indictment of fabricating a multi-million dollar bribery scheme involving President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden has been re-arrested after a judge allowed his release, the man’s attorneys said on Thursday.
Lawyers for Alexander Smirnov, a 43-year-old dual U.S.-Israeli citizen who served as an FBI source for more than a decade, filed an emergency motion in Nevada’s federal court that said their client was arrested for a second time on the same charges while at their law office for meetings with counsel.
The filing insisted Smirnov was taken back into custody under “bizarre circumstances” while pointing out a lack of filings from the judge in the docket in California. Smirnov’s lawyers requested an immediate detention hearing to seek the release of their client. A copy of the arrest warrant shows it was issued by District Judge Otis…
