Former FBI informant accused of lying about the Biden family business must pay new taxes

Former FBI informant charged by special prosecutor David Weiss with alleged… lies about President Joe Biden His son Hunter Biden’s business dealings face a new, separate indictment over tax charges, court records show.

According to the indictment revealed on Tuesday in a California federal court, Alexander Smirnov allegedly evaded paying taxes on income worth over $2 million, which he obtained from various sources in 2020-2022.

Smirnov was scheduled to go on trial next week in Los Angeles on charges that he concocted “fabrications” about President Biden and his son receiving $5 million in bribes from the Ukrainian energy company Burisma, which Republicans have repeatedly sought to exploit. in his years-long effort to impeach the president. He has he pleaded not guilty to the allegations.

The federal judge overseeing Smirnov’s case has since moved the trial to January.

The recently unsealed indictment alleges that Smirnov led a lavish lifestyle for years in which he allegedly sold his FBI employee lies about the Biden family – detailing expenses that include a $1.4 million Las Vegas condominium and a Bentley, which he allegedly rented for more than $122,000, and hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of clothes, jewelry and accessories that he allegedly purchased for himself and his partner.

Despite receiving more than $2 million in revenue streams, prosecutors say he reported only $60,000 in total annual income and $250,000 in gross business income on a credit card application filed in June 2022.

The indictment further alleges that when Smirnov sought the assistance of a professional tax return preparer who refused to sign his return, Smirnov told the preparer that he “should not ask how he obtained his income” and then instructed him to to delete any emails or email messages sent by Smirnov.

“Mr. Smirnov intends to vigorously fight these charges with the same intensity with which he fought the original indictment,” Smirnov’s lawyers, David Chesnoff and Richard Schonfeld, said in a statement.

Court records show that as of Tuesday afternoon, Smirnov had not yet filed any response to the newly filed indictment.

Smirnov has remained in custody since his February arrest under the belief that he poses a flight risk due to his extensive foreign contacts, which allegedly include known senior intelligence agents in Russia.