Alexander Smirnov was paid $600,000 in 2020 – the same year he allegedly began lying to FBI about Bidens’ role in Ukraine business
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/14/company-paying-fbi-informant-trump-connections
Alexander Smirnov was paid $600,000 in 2020 – the same year he allegedly began lying to FBI about Bidens’ role in Ukraine business
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Back in 2020, Smirnov was paid $600,000 by a company called Economic Transformation Technologies (ETT), prosecutors said. That same year, Smirnov began lying to the FBI about the Bidens, according to the indictment.
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Dagwood222@lemm.ee 8 months ago
In a spy movie, the agent would use a dead drop to contact the operative, who would then travel to a different city using a throw away identity . After spending a day making sure they weren’t being watched, the two would meet covertly in a safe house.
In real life, Trump calls an associate in another country and openly pays someone to lie to the FBI. I mean, when has the FBI ever looked into anyone’s past?
sadreality@kbin.social 8 months ago
FBI informant is a good business. They are paid to provide results, legally or otherwise.
This is the MO.
There is a story how "FBI informant" got paid 100k to get "terrorist"
What he did is groomed a mentally ill Muslim kid to be a terrorist and that was counted as W.
Mother had to go to court to explain to judge that her child is too dim to plan or execute much of anything.