The Department of Justice said that he is reviewing the criminal case filed against a former FBI informant convicted of lies about former President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden and is moving so that a judge releases the man from prison immediately while his case is in appeal.
Alexander Smirnov was sentenced to six years in prison in January after declaring himself guilty of lying to his FBI manager about the biden family ties with a Ukrainian energy company, in addition to a series of unrelated tax fraud charges.
Smirnov’s lies were used by the Republicans of the House of Representatives to strengthen their efforts to accuse Joe Biden for not proven statements that he used his position as vice president in the administration of Obama to benefit financially once outside the office.
“The United States intends to review the government theory of the case underlying the accused’s criminal sentence,” said US prosecutor David Friedman in a presentation on Thursday, without offering more explanations.
In this court, the defendant, Alexander Smirnov, speaks in a federal court in Los Angeles, on February 26, 2024.
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The case against Smirnov, presented by the former special lawyer, David Weiss, who was previously an American lawyer appointed by Trump, claimed that he invented “manufactures” about Joe Biden and his son accepting $ 5 million in bribes of the Giant of Ukrainian Energy Burisma. The accusation accused Smirnov of repeatedly changing his story about the alleged bribery scheme after meeting with high -ranking members of Russia’s intelligence services, in what Weiss described as a deliberate effort to influence the presidential elections of 2024.
Thursday’s presentation aims at health problems that Smirnov has faced since his imprisonment. His lawyers have said that he has suffered a chronic eye disease for more than a year and asked him to release him to receive the treatment of a doctor in California.
President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden leave a bookstore while buying in Nantucket, Massachusetts, on November 29, 2024.
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However, the judge supervised his case, repeatedly rejected his efforts before his guilt declaration, arguing that he represented a flight risk from the United States based on his extensive contacts with foreign intelligence services abroad.
A spokesman for the Department of Justice refused to comment more about the presentation of the Government.
