Former FBI informant at center of Biden impeachment inquiry indicted on tax charges

Former FBI informant Alexander Smirnov, whose testimony contributed to the House GOP's impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden, has been indicted on multiple tax charges.

Smirnov has now been indicted on 10 separate tax-related charges, according to NBC News. He was also charged in February with lying to the FBI about the Biden family's involvement with Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian energy firm at the center of an alleged bribery scheme.

The new indictment, which was unsealed on Tuesday and brought by a California grand jury, accused Smirnov of concealing more than $2 million between 2020 and 2022, which allegedly came from multiple sources. He has been charged with tax evasion, and filing false tax returns, per ABC News.

Smirnov allegedly used the secret funds to pay for “a $1.4 million Las Vegas condominium, a Bentley, and hundreds of thousands of dollars of clothes, jewelry and accessories for himself and [a] Domestic Partner purchased at high-end retailers in Los Angeles and Las Vegas," the indictment reads.

Smirnov's attorneys, David Chesnoff and Richard Schonfeld, said their client intends to fight the new allegations "with the same intensity as he has fought the original indictment.”

The former informant, who had been a confidential human source for the FBI since 2010, has pleaded not guilty to all charges so far. He is expected to stand trial in his statements case on January 8, 2025.

Misty Severi is an evening news reporter for Just the News. You can follow her on X for more coverage.