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.

Alexander Smirnov may not be a household name, but his prison sentence represents a stunning fiasco for some prominent Republicans in Congress.

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 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.

A judge sentenced ex FBI informant Alexander Smirnov to six years in prison for falsely claiming to the FBI in 2020 that Joe and Hunter Biden accepted bribes.

A federal judge gave the former informant the highest possible sentence under his plea agreement with prosecutors in special counsel David Weiss's office.

Smirnov, a dual U.S. and Israeli citizen, falsely claimed to his FBI handler that executives from the Ukrainian energy company Burisma had paid then-Vice President Biden and his son $5 million each around 2015.

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.