Whistleblower retaliation presented as a serious concern yet again as the Justice Department unsealed an indictment Monday days after a witness to alleged Biden family corruption released a video accusing them of a coverup.
Last week, Dr. Gal Luft, 57, a dual U.S.-Israeli citizen who had been arrested in Cyprus in February and subsequently went on the run amidst efforts to extradite him to the United States, made his case for why the DOJ was coming after him. Monday, the indictment from the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York was unsealed containing no mention of President Joe Biden or members of his family.
A press release from the Justice Department stated in part, “According to the allegations contained in the indictment, for years, Luft conspired with others in an effort to act within the United States to advance the interests of the People’s Republic of China (China) as agents of China-based principals, without registering as foreign agents as required under U.S. law.” (emphasis added)
U.S. Attorney announces charges against co-director of think tank for acting as an unregistered foreign agent, trafficking in arms, violating U.S. sanctions against Iran, and making false statements to federal agentshttps://t.co/FRMpiq1bV7
— US Attorney SDNY (@SDNYnews) July 10, 2023
Within the eight-count indictment, the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security think tank, headed by Luft, was said to have received an annual payment of $350,000 per an agreement to “recruit and ‘educate'” a former high-ranking US official to “make public statements…which were in the interest of China.”
u.s. v. Luft Indictment by Jamie White
As previously reported, details of Luft’s work connected him to former CIA Director James Woolsey, a point he himself included in a video filmed last week obtained by the New York Post.
“I, who volunteered to inform the US government about a potential security breach and about compromising information about a man vying to be the next president, am now being hunted by the very same people who I informed — and may have to live on the run for the rest of my life,” he had said.
“The DOJ says I caused a payment of $6,000 a month to former CIA Director James Woolsey in order to put his name on an article I had ghostwritten for the China Daily newspaper,” Luft claimed. “Why am I being indicted…for ghostwriting an innocuous article for which I received no payment, let alone from a foreign government, when the mother of all FARA cases, the Bidens’ systemic influence-peddling on behalf of foreign governments, for which they raked [in] millions, goes unpunished?”
‘I am now being hunted’: ‘Missing’ Biden corruption witness spills all in shocking ‘DOJ coverup’ video https://t.co/QXGUQZAC1d via @BIZPACReview
— BPR based (@DumpstrFireNews) July 6, 2023
“I was asked by a bona fide arms dealer, an Israeli friend, to inquire with a company I knew if they had an item and what would be the price of an item. This is where the conspiracy ended. No follow-up, no money, no brokering activity,” the think tank head asserted.
Were he found guilty, the charges against Luft, which include “Conspiracy to violate the Foreign Agents Registration Act” and “Conspiracy to violate the Arms Export Control Act” combine for a maximum prison sentence of 100 years.
As to why the Bidens were not mentioned in the indictment, Luft had claimed, “Prosecutor Daniel Richenthal told the judge at the time that mentioning the name Biden would ‘add a political dimension’ to the case, and the judge agreed. Which means if I was brought before a New York court, I would not be allowed to utter the word ‘Brussels’ or ‘Biden.'”
Previously, the whistleblower had noted Brussels was where a secret meeting was said to have been held in March 2019 with the FBI and DOJ at which he allegedly provided evidence about Biden’s alleged criminal connections, specifically to Chinese energy company CEFC which was said to result in a roughly $5 million payment to Biden family accounts in August 2017 and additional payments to Hunter and Jim Biden.
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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