A former FBI informant is going to plead guilty to lying about criminal allegations against President Joe Biden and his son Hunter.
Alexander Smirnov, 43, entered into a plea agreement with special counsel David Weiss, CBS News reported Thursday.
Smirnov, a dual U.S.-Israeli citizen, admitted to creating "a false and fictitious record" concerning the Bidens as part of a multi-year federal probe into the first family.
Among the lies was allegations Burisma Holdings owner Mykola Zlochevsky paid then-Vice President Joe Biden and his son $5 million each to "protect" his firm from a looming corruption investigation.
Zlochevsky supposedly wanted the Bidens' help in ousting former Ukrainian Prosecutor-General Viktor Shokin sometime between 2015 or 2016.
In July 2023, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, released an unclassified document, an FD-1023 form, involving claims a confidential informant made in 2020 about Hunter Biden's alleged business dealings when he served on the board of Burisma.
In September 2023, Smirnov "promoted a new false narrative after he said he met with Russian officials," prosecutors claimed.
Hunter Biden, 54, sat on the board of Burisma from 2014 to 2019 and earned a salary of up to $1 million per year despite having no past experience in the energy industry.
President Biden has denied accusations he worked to oust Shokin and has insisted other European leaders also wanted Shokin out of his job.
In February, Smirnov was charged with two felonies for lying about the Biden-Burisma probe.
Last month, Weiss charged Smirnov with tax evasion and filing false tax returns, accusing him of concealing millions of dollars of income he earned between 2020 and 2022.
Smirnov agreed to plead guilty Thursday to one count of creating a false federal record and three tax-related counts.
Smirnov faces up to six years in prison, one year of supervised release and must pay $675,502 in restitution, pursuant to the plea deal filed in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, the New York Post reported.
The FBI had trusted Smirnov as an informant for almost a decade, according to GOP lawmakers, the Post reported.
The Associated Press contributed to this story.
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