A key informant in the investigation into Joe Biden has been arrested on charges of lying to the FBI. This news will likely deal a huge blow to the Republican-led investigation into the president.
From The Wall Street Journal. An informant who alleged that President Biden engaged in a bribery scheme with a foreign national during his vice presidency was arrested on charges of lying to the FBI, a twist that appears to undermine a push by House Republicans to impeach the president.
The informant, Alexander Smirnov, who had been a confidential source for the Federal Bureau of Investigation since 2010, provided “false derogatory information” about Biden and his son, Hunter, authorities said Thursday.
Smirnov’s allegations were memorialized in an official FBI record that House Republicans have touted in their investigation into the Biden family’s business dealings. That record was at the heart of a standoff last year between the FBI and GOP lawmakers who subpoenaed the document in their inquiry. …
An FBI official cautioned at the time that investigative reports only “include leads and suspicions, not conclusions of investigators based on fuller context.”
In response to the indictment of Smirnov, [Representative James] Comer said the impeachment inquiry into Biden doesn’t rely on the FBI document and is based on “a large record of evidence,” including bank records and witness testimony. …
Abbe Lowell, a lawyer for Hunter Biden, said, “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.” …
Smirnov had allegedly provided the FBI with tips related to Burisma, a Ukrainian gas producer that had Hunter Biden on its board for around five years starting in 2014, when Joe Biden was vice president. That relationship has been the subject of criminal and congressional investigations for years into Hunter Biden. …
Smirnov was arrested in Las Vegas upon arriving on an international flight. …
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(Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal. Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America – Joe Biden, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons)