You're basing your 100% claim on the word of a Russian hacker. There's no other evidence. And he's not in prison in Russia. He was caught in Prague in October on after US requested a high alert Interpol warrant called a Red Notice. A Red Notice is basically "Get this guy right now." I believe he had been living in Russia for years without getting caught and then he took a road trip through Europe and posted photos to Instragram showing he was no longer in Russia and thus Interpol could get him. If he was openly living in Russia, we can assume that he didn't have fear of arrest in Russia. Russia has a history of protecting hackers.

He's been wanted for years for his hacking of LinkedIn and Dropbox, but he was only caught when he left Russia. He is still in jail in the Czech Republic. The US has requested extradition. Once the US requrested, Russia decided they were going to arrest him to requested extradition. So there's an extradition battle going on.

By the way your headline is a claim>Comey and FBI tried to bribe a Russian hacker to say that he "hacked" the election. The only evidence is this guy's word. I don't think he wants to be extradicted to the US, so this could be

A. throwing sand in those gears, making the US look bad in hopes of being returned to Russia where he lived for years without being arrested.

or it could be

B. A standard plea deal agreement that got lost in translation. We offer incentives all the time to people to plea and avoid trial. They are not considered bribes and usually they are not offered for the person to fraudently confess.

It could also be

C. exactly what he claims it is a bribe and a political FBI smear job.

I think A is most likely. Here's why I don't think C is possible Again this is being translated from Russian, but he said

"[They told me:] you will have to confess to breaking into Clinton's inbox for [U.S. President Donald Trump] on behalf of [Russian President Vladimir Putin],” Nikulin wrote. In exchange, his interrogators promised U.S. citizenship, an apartment and money, he said.

This is ridiculous. So far there is no evidence anyone broke into Clinton's inbox. Perhaps he was talking about the DNC or Podesta, but that is not Clinton and a hacker would be quite aware of this distinction. It would not be expected that the Russian Intel handler of this hacker explains the details. It's highly improbable, someone would say, you're going to hack Clinton's inbox for Trump and Putin supports this.

The backstory to this is there is a very close connection between Russian intelligence services and the hacker community. We tried to arrest a hacker in 2009 and he was tipped off. The US believes that tip off came directly from the FSB. The hacker's father was a politician close to Putin. We have four hackers wanted by the FBI in connection with the hack of Yahoo. When the names were released two of them were Russian Intel officers.

The officers of the FSB -- Russia's successor to the Soviet Union's KGB -- were identified as Igor Anatolyevich Sushchin, 43, and Dmitry Aleksandrovich Dokuchaev, 33.

There's another hacker in Spain waiting extradition.