A federal appeals court on May 1 rejected efforts by lawyers to secure the release of former FBI agent Alexander Smirnov, who claimed that President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden engaged in a bribery scheme in Ukraine.
Lawyers for Mr. Smirnov had called on the California-based Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn a lower court judge’s order that he stay behind bars ahead of his upcoming trial, which is scheduled to take place on April 23 in Los Angeles, CNN reports.
