Company that paid FBI informant tied to Trump associates in Dubai, records reveal

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/14/company-paying-fbi-informant-trump-connections

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An American company that paid the now indicted FBI informant Alexander Smirnov in 2020 is connected to a UK company owned by Trump business associates in Dubai, according to business filings and court documents.

Smirnov is now accused of lying to the FBI about Hunter Biden and his father, President Joe Biden, alleging that they engaged in a bribery scheme with executives at Ukrainian energy company Burisma. Smirnov’s accounts to the FBI, beginning in 2020, that federal prosecutors now say are impossible fabrications, served as a major justification of the House impeachment investigation into the Bidens.

Republican lawmakers have repeatedly touted Smirnov as a reliable informant, and the chairman of the House oversight committee, James Comer, even threatened to hold FBI director Christopher Wray in contempt unless he “handed over” a June 2020 FBI form with Smirnov’s claims to the committee.

Back in 2020, Smirnov was paid $600,000 by a company called Educational Transformation Technologies (ETT), prosecutors said. That same year, Smirnov began lying to the FBI about the Bidens, according to his indictment.

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[Botany]

1. So D. Trump was paying Smirnov to invent dirt on the Bidens?

Isn’t this like impeachment #1 when Trump tried to blackmail Zelenskyy into inventing
dirt on the Bidens and to help Putin too?

Btw did Comer, Jordan, and so on know about Trump’s payments to Smirnov as they
were using him to try to hurt Joe Biden?

[sop]

2. I don't know, It might be a bit too early to tell, but it seems like there's a pattern emerging here.

Why is it every time another rock is turned over, some Trump-connected lowlife slithers out?