Questions raised as Biden impeachment witness goes missing from prison after lying to FBI [View all]

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Travis Gettys November 7, 2025 1:02PM ET


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Alexander Smirnov pleaded guilty to making up a story that former President Joe Biden and his son Hunter had gotten millions of dollars in bribes from a Ukrainian energy company, but journalist Jacqueline Sweet reported on her Disaster Girl Substack page that he's apparently no longer serving a six-year prison term imposed days before Trump returned to office.

"Despite Smirnov being judged a flight risk, with ties to Russian intelligence and foreign assets, the U.S.-Israeli citizen has been mysteriously missing from prison for at least the past four months," Sweet reported. "Following reports in April that the Trump administration was reviewing the case, concerns have now arisen that the president is considering an imminent pardon."

"Smirnov had been serving his sentence at FCI Terminal Island, a low-security prison in Los Angeles," the report added. "He is still listed at FCI Terminal Island on the Bureau of Prisons website, with a release date of February 2029. But while no filings on the docket for his appeal indicate how or why his release was ordered, he has not been there since at least July."

A process server found Smirnov was no longer at the prison when he attempted to serve papers for a civil lawsuit related to his time working as a confidential FBI informant on a securities fraud case involving a California man named Andrew Hackett, and the prison confirmed he was on "furlough, according to emails and court filings Sweet reviewed."

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