WASHINGTON (DT) — FBI informant in Biden family business investigation is now accused of lying to investigators into the involvement of President Joe Biden and his son Hunter in the Ukrainian energy company Burisma.
Special Prosecutor David Weiss announced the new charges against Alexander Smirnov this week. Smirnov is accused of making a false statement and creating a false and fictitious dossier.
According to the indictment, “the defendant’s account to the FBI was a fabrication, an amalgamation of otherwise mundane business meetings and contacts.”
House GOP investigators say they still have plenty of reasons to continue the process. indictment investigation ” in President Biden “and none of these reasons lie with the corrupt FBI or an informant.”
Republicans are now pointing out that this is the latest example of poor vetting of “reliable sources” by FBI Director Christopher Wray and his agency.
Potential obstruction, potential money laundering, potential corruption, that’s what we’re looking at. We had two other witnesses: Jim Biden next week, Hunter Biden the following week,” House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, told Fox News on Wednesday. “It’s a story as old as time: a politician does certain things, these actions benefit his family financially and then there is an effort to cover it up.
President Biden has denied any wrongdoing from the beginning and responded to the accusations against Smirnov on Friday.
He is lying and this should be abandoned and this has been an outrageous effort from the beginning,” Biden said.
Hunter Biden’s lawyer responded in a statement: “For months, we have warned that Republicans built their plots about Hunter and his family on lies told by people with political agendas, not on facts. We were right, and the air is out of their balloon. “.
The accusations come just days after the former Biden family associate. Tony Bobulinski testified on Capitol Hill.
He mentioned that Joe Biden thanked him for what he was doing with his brother and son. So Joe Biden knew very well the role that Tony Bobulinski played in Biden’s orbit,” said House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer, R-Ky.
Smirnov’s indictment does not impact Weiss’ separate charges against Hunter Biden, who still faces charges on tax charges in California and a gun charge in Delaware.
