He worked with Russia and Republicans to build a web of lies that could incriminate President Joe Biden. Now he’s being rewarded. Alexander Smirnov’s various deceptions about Biden and his family—which included telling the FBI that both Biden and his son Hunter had pocketed millions in bribes from the Ukrainian gas company Burisma—were central to Republican efforts to impeach the former president. Smirnov was the caucus’s star witness. In a plea deal in 2024, Smirnov admitted that he had not