Ex-FBI Informant Charged Over ‘False Claims’ in Biden Bribery Probe Must Remain Jailed: Appeals Court
Published on May 2, 2024
A federal appeals court on Wednesday rejected efforts by lawyers to secure the release of former FBI agent Alexander Smirnov, who claimed that President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, engaged in a bribery scheme in Ukraine. Lawyers for Mr. Smirnov had called on the California-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn a lower court judge’s order that he stay behind bars ahead of his upcoming trial, which is scheduled to take place on April 23 in Los Angeles, CNN reports. However, a three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit ruled Wednesday that the lower court judge’s order was correct in concluding that the ex-FBI agent posed a flight risk....