Smirnov was arrested at the Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas on Thursday.
Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Thursday questioned the timing of special counsel David Weiss’s decision to bring charges against a former FBI informant who provided the agency with bribery allegations involving the Biden family and the Ukrainian energy firm Burisma.
Weiss on Thursday charged Alexander Smirnov over allegedly lying about the scheme, including allegations recorded in a 2020 FBI FD-1023 confidential human source document that Republican congressional investigators uncovered last year. Smirnov was arrested at the Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas on Thursday.
“The FBI had the FD1023 form since 2020 and FBI Director Chris Wray told us that the informant was their top paid most credible informant and now all of a sudden David Weiss arrest [sic] him and is pressing charges??? What changed other than a successful impeachment in the House?” Greene posted on X.
The FD-1023 detailed an alleged scheme by which a Burisma executive hired Hunter Biden to secure access to his then-vice president father, Joe Biden, with the aim of crushing then-Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin’s probe of the company. The Burisma executive allegedly paid $5 million each to two Biden family members as part of the agreement. Biden has previously taken credit for getting Shokin fired but contends that he was following U.S. policy.
The US government is crooked I think Putin has more credibility
It’s easy to raise questions that suggest conspiracies. But she never proves any answers.
Plenty of proof 7:13, try a different source of news
What proof?