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Former FBI informant Alexander Smirnov, center, leaves the courthouse on Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024, in Las Vegas. Prosecutors say that Smirnov, who is charged with making up a multimillion-dollar bribery scheme involving President Joe Biden, his son Hunter and a Ukrainian energy company, had contacts with Russian intelligence-affiliated officials. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP)

Ex-FBI informant who fabricated bribery story about Bidens is sentenced to 6 years

By Alanna Durkin Richer - Associated Press

FILE - In this courtroom sketch Defendant Alexander Smirnov speaks in Federal court in Los Angeles, Feb. 26, 2024. (William T. Robles via AP, File)

Former FBI informant will be sentenced for bogus bribery claim about President Biden and son Hunter

By Alanna Durkin Richer - Associated Press

FILE - Former FBI informant Alexander Smirnov, left, walks out of his lawyer's office in downtown Las Vegas after being released from federal custody Feb. 20, 2024. (K.M. Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP, File)

Former FBI informant pleads guilty to lying about phony bribery scheme involving the Bidens

By Alanna Durkin Richer - Associated Press

Former FBI informant Alexander Smirnov, center, leaves the courthouse on Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024, in Las Vegas. Prosecutors say that Smirnov, who is charged with making up a multimillion-dollar bribery scheme involving President Joe Biden, his son Hunter and a Ukrainian energy company, had contacts with Russian intelligence-affiliated officials. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP)

Ex-FBI informant accused of lying about Bidens will plead guilty to federal charges

By Alanna Durkin Richer - Associated Press

Former FBI informant Alexander Smirnov, center, leaves the courthouse on Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024, in Las Vegas. Prosecutors say that Smirnov, who is charged with making up a multimillion-dollar bribery scheme involving President Joe Biden, his son Hunter and a Ukrainian energy company, had contacts with Russian intelligence-affiliated officials. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP)

Ex-FBI informant accused of lying about the Bidens is indicted on federal tax charges

By Alanna Durkin Richer - Associated Press

In this artist sketch depicts defendant Alexander Smirnov I federal court in Los Angeles, Feb. 26, 2024. A federal appeals court has rejected a bid to release from jail the former FBI informant who is charged with fabricating a multimillion-dollar bribery scheme involving President Joe Biden's family. (William T. Robles via AP)

Ex-FBI informant charged with lying about Bidens must remain jailed, appeals court rules

By Alanna Durkin Richer - Associated Press

Former FBI informant Alexander Smirnov, center, leaves the courthouse on Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024, in Las Vegas. Prosecutors say that Smirnov, who is charged with making up a multimillion-dollar bribery scheme involving President Joe Biden, his son Hunter and a Ukrainian energy company, had contacts with Russian intelligence-affiliated officials. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP)

DOJ asks federal judge to reverse order, ‘detain’ ex-FBI informant charged with lying about Bidens

By Victor Morton - The Washington Times

Former FBI informant Alexander Smirnov, center, leaves the courthouse on Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024, in Las Vegas. Prosecutors say that Smirnov, who is charged with making up a multimillion-dollar bribery scheme involving President Joe Biden, his son Hunter and a Ukrainian energy company, had contacts with Russian intelligence-affiliated officials. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP)

How is an ex-FBI informant charged with lying about Bidens allegedly linked to Russian intelligence?

By Lindsay Whitehurst - Associated Press

Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, talks to reporters at the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, Dec. 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana. File)

Hunter Biden’s lawyers suggest his case is tainted by claims of ex-FBI informant charged with lying

By Lindsay Whitehurst - Associated Press

Hunter Biden, President Joe Biden's son, accompanied by his attorney Abbe Lowell, left, leaves a House Oversight Committee hearing as Republicans are taking the first step toward holding him in contempt of Congress, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Special counsel charges former FBI informant with falsely claiming Burisma bribed the Bidens

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

Russian investigators stand near debris, luggage and personal effects of passengers a day after a passenger jet bound for St. Petersburg in Russia crashed in Hassana, Egypt, on Sunday, Nov. 1, 2015. The Metrojet plane crashed 23 minutes after it took off from Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on Saturday morning. The 224 people on board, all Russian except for four Ukrainians and one Belarusian, died. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Metrojet airline exec says external impact caused Egypt plane crash

By Dmitry Lovetsky - Associated Press