LOS ANGELES (CN) — The FBI informant indicted on charges of giving the bureau false information about President Joe Biden and his son Hunter which was subsequently used by Republican lawmakers and pundits to try to discredit the administration lost his bid to stay out of jail.

U.S. District Judge Otis Wright II, at a hearing Monday morning in downtown Los Angeles, remanded Alexander Smirnov to jail to await his trial.

“There’s nothing garden variety about his case,” Wright said in rejecting the arguments of Smirnov’s attorney that he wasn’t a flight risk.