A former FBI informant who fabricated a bribery story involving President Joe Biden and his son Hunter was sentenced to six years in prison on Wednesday. The false claims became a focal point of Republican-led impeachment efforts against Biden.

A former FBI informant who admitted to lying about U.S. President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden’s interactions with a Ukrainian energy company was sentenced to six years in prison on Wednesday, court records showed.

Alexander Smirnov falsely claimed to his FBI handler that executives from the Ukrainian energy company Burisma paid Biden and his son $5 million each around 2015.

The disgraced former FBI informant who falsely accused President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden of taking a $10 million bribe from Ukraine was sentenced Wednesday to six years in federal prison, according to court records.

A Californian court sentenced former FBI informant Alexander Smirnov, who falsely accused the Biden family of taking a bribe from a Ukrainian business, to six years in prison, CNN reported on Jan. 8.

A judge sentenced former FBI informant Alexander Smirnov to six years in prison on Wednesday for falsely claiming to the FBI in 2020 that President Joe Biden and his son Hunter accepted millions of dollars in bribes from a Ukrainian oligarch.

A former FBI informant whose fabricated bribery allegations against President Joe Biden and his son Hunter fueled Republican impeachment efforts is due for sentencing Wednesday in Los Angeles federal court.

Prosecutors want 6 years in prison for a man whose bogus story about Joe and Hunter Biden accepting bribes became central to Republicans’ impeachment effort.