Prosecutors will ask a judge on Wednesday for six years in prison for a former FBI informant whose bogus story about President Joe Biden and his son Hunter accepting bribes became central to Republicans' impeachment effort.
Alexander Smirnov may not be a household name, but his prison sentence represents a stunning fiasco for some prominent Republicans in Congress.
A federal judge gave the former informant the highest possible sentence under his plea agreement with prosecutors in special counsel David Weiss's office.
The FBI has faced a handful of scandals under the Biden administration, including a New Year's Day terror attack that left more than a dozen people dead and others injured.
No evidence emerged that the allegations against the Bidens were true, but the story was taken up by some Republicans, who made the unverified claims part of their effort to impeach President
Former FBI informant has been sentenced to six years for fabricating bribery allegations involving President Biden and his son Hunter.
President Joe Biden is casting doubt on his fitness to serve another four years in a new interview days before he leaves office after one term.
President Biden told a grieving New Orleans "you are not alone" as the nation stands with the city following the deadly New Year's Day attack.
A former FBI informant who admitted to lying about U.S. President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden’s interactions with a Ukrainian energy company was sentenced to six years in prison on Wednesday, court records showed.
The only institutions that will try to hold Trump accountable are powerless, while the only ones with the power to punish him will never do it.
China’s Ministry of State Security intelligence service was able to exploit the vulnerabilities of America’s antiquated telecommunications infrastructure