Alexander Smirnov, the former FBI informant who was accused earlier this year of making false statements about President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden, was indicted Tuesday on unrelated tax charges accusing him of concealing millions of dollars worth of income.
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Smirnov was accused of filing false tax returns and tax evasion, according to a filing, which alleges he concealed millions of dollars in income earned in 2020, 2021 and 2022.
Prosecutors accused Smirnov of spending the money on personal expenses for him and his partner including a “$1.4 million Las Vegas condominium, a Bentley, and hundreds of thousands of dollars of clothes, jewelry and accessories.”
Justice Department special counsel David Weiss, who worked the Hunter Biden gun and tax cases, brought the indictment against Smirnov, charging him with a total of ten tax-related counts.
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Smirnov’s attorneys told Politico their client “intends to vigorously fight these allegations with the same intensity as he has fought the original indictment.”
Smirnov’s indictment Tuesday comes just nine months after he was charged by Weiss for allegedly making a false statement and “creating a false and fictitious record” regarding statements he made about the Bidens. Smirnov’s statements were a large part of the accusations Republicans brought to a House impeachment inquiry into the president. Prosecutors accused Smirnov of lying when he told the FBI he was in contact with members of Ukrainian holding company Burisma who told him they hired Hunter Biden to “protect us, through his dad … from all kinds of problems” in exchange for money. The allegations were never verified by the FBI and the impeachment inquiry into President Biden eventually fell flat. Smirnov’s trial in the false statements case is slated to begin Jan. 8, 2025. He will remain in jail until then and faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted of his charges.
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