The Justice Department is reconsidering its case against a former FBI informant who was indicted for fabricating a claim that former President Biden and his son Hunter Biden accepted a bribe.
The admission came in a filing in the case of Alexander Smirnov, who pleaded guilty last year to lying to the FBI about the detail that was central to the House Republican impeachment investigation into Biden.
Thursday’s filing asks for Smirnov’s release from prison so that he can seek medical treatment for a “chronic eye condition.” The former informant had been sentenced to six years in prison.
But the filing nods to broader plans by the Trump administration to reevaluate the case.
“The United States intends to review the government’s theory of the case underlying Defendant’s criminal conviction,” officials wrote in the filing.
Smirnov’s prosecution was one of two major cases handled by former special counsel David Weiss.
Weiss was accused of slow walking an investigation into Hunter Biden but ultimately brought tax and gun charges against the former president’s son. While the younger Biden was convicted on the gun charges and pleaded guilty on the tax charges, his father ultimately pardoned him.
In Smirnov’s case, he was charged with fabricating the claim that father and son each accepted a $5 million dollar bribe in connection with Hunter Biden’s work for Ukrainian energy company Burisma. The FBI investigated the tip, but prosecutors said in the initial indictment that Smirnov was motivated by political animus, hoping to sink Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign.
Smirnov was also later indicted on various tax charges, of which he pleaded guilty.
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