Alexander Smirnov photo (we can finally see his face!)

[FelineOverlord]

Link: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alexander-smirnov-fbi-informant-bidens-fraudster-in-prior-case/

Scott MacFarlane
@MacFarlaneNews

Here's your first look at Alexander Smirnov... without his face covered

The feds were warned he was an accused liar... years before he was charged with falsely claiming President Biden took a bribe

Our report for @CBSNews

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[FelineOverlord]

1. Video

[usonian]

2. Joe, your Willie Horton is here.

Stick 'em and Twist 'em.

[gab13by13]

3. The Feds knew he was a liar back in 2016.

The Hunter Biden investigation needs a special counsel to investigate the investigation. When did members of Congress know about Smirnov? DOJ knew about Smirnov and still Garland appointed a special counsel. The special counsel Weiss, needs investigated.

Watch and see, they will offer Smirnov a sweetheart plea deal to buy his silence.

Making Smirnov the fall guy is bullshit. The Hunter Biden investigation was a fraud, was linked to Russia from the beginning, the investigation needs investigated.

[rsdsharp]

4. He looks like a younger version of Lev Parnas.

[PufPuf23]

5. The informant next door: A quiet L.A. life masked Kremlin ties for FBI source accused of lying about Bidens

Lots of background info on Smirnov.

The informant next door: A quiet L.A. life masked Kremlin ties for FBI source accused of lying about Bidens

Matt Hamilton; February 26, 2024; LA Times

He rubbed elbows with Russian elites, spoke of an exclusive invite aboard an oligarch's mega-yacht and cozied up to foreign intelligence agencies.

As a valued FBI informant for the last 13 years, Alexander Smirnov hopscotched the globe to sweep up information on powerful figures and illicit activities. Federal agents even authorized him to break the law while doing so.

For much of this time, Smirnov, 43, also lived a quiet, seemingly unremarkable life in the suburbs of Los Angeles with a long-term girlfriend 15 years his senior, calling Calabasas, Woodland Hills and Orange County home.

"They were very, very secretive," a former landlord said. "They packed really, really quick and left. It was weird."

Smirnov's tenure as a confidential source for the FBI ended in spectacular fashion this month, with a grand jury in L.A. charging him with obstructing justice and lying to federal agents.

https://news.yahoo.com/informant-next-door-quiet-l-110046949.html

[dalton99a]

8. +1. A must read

[MustBeTheBooz]

6. I have a gut feeling his days on this plain are numbered.

With or without a mugshot.

[Liberal In Texas]

7. The guy is a Russian. He's a KGB (FSB) operative.

I don't care if he has an Israeli and US passport, I think the guy is Russian through and through. And a basically, a spy.

Smirnov, they said, "claims to have contacts with multiple foreign intelligence agencies" and had planned to leave the U.S. for months just two days after he was arrested, to meet with Russian intelligence officials, among others.

Prosecutors argued that his foreign intelligence contacts could resettle him if he were to flee the U.S. now.

Prosecutors also said that Smirnov, 43, has access to $6 million in "liquid funds," which he did not disclose to Pretrial Services. Instead, he told them that he had only $1,500 in cash on hand and $5,000 in a personal checking account, according to the government.

Prosecutors also noted that Smirnov is a dual U.S. and Israeli citizen. While Smirnov has volunteered to turn over his Israeli passport, prosecutors say he could get a new passport at any time at an Israeli Consulate.

But much of the government's detention memo focuses on Smirnov's alleged contacts with Russia's government and intelligence services.

https://www.npr.org/2024/02/20/1232789953/alexander-smirnov-fbi-informant-biden-hunter-ukraine

[dalton99a]

9. A spy and hired assassin.