The Russian Justice Ministry has added DW's Alexander Smirnov to a list of people it deems to be "foreign agents." ...

A federal judge in Los Angeles has denied the U.S. government's request to release a former FBI informant while he appeals his case ...

Alexander Smirnov, 45, who lived in a Las Vegas condominium before his February 2024 arrest, was sentenced to six years in prison by U.S. District Judge Otis Wright II in January after Smirnov ...

The Trump administration had signaled it might try to undo the guilty plea and six-year prison sentence for Alexander Smirnov. By Devlin Barrett Reporting from Washington A federal judge on ...

Ex-FBI Informant Who Made up Bribery Story About the Bidens Will Stay in Prison, Judge Rules LAS VEGAS (AP) — A federal judge has denied the U.S. government's request to release from prison a ...

The decision, issued Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Otis Wright in Los Angeles, comes weeks after a new prosecutor reassigned to Alexander Smirnov's case jointly filed a motion with his ...

FILE - Former FBI informant Alexander Smirnov, left, walks out of his lawyer's office in downtown Las Vegas after being released from federal custody on Feb. 20, 2024. (K.M. Cannon/Las Vegas ...