Former FBI informant Alexander Smirnov, who is charged with making false statements about a bribery scheme he claimed involved President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden, has been indicted on new tax-related charges.
Smirnov was indicted with seven counts of filing false tax returns and three counts of tax evasion. He was accused of concealing over $2 million of income he earned from multiple sources between 2020 and 2022.
The new 27-page indictment was filed by Special Counsel David Weiss on Nov. 21, but it was not unsealed until this week in a California federal court.
The indictment states that Smirnov used the money on personal expenses for himself and his domestic partner, including a “$1.4 million Las Vegas condominium, a Bentley, and hundreds of thousands of dollars of clothes, jewelry and accessories” purchased at high-end retailers in Los Angeles and Las Vegas….