'Missing' Biden corruption case witness Dr. Gal Luft details allegations against president's family in extraordinary video
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Via: vic-eldred • 2 years ago • 71 commentsBy: Miranda Devine (New York Post)
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By Miranda Devine
The "missing witness" from the Biden corruption investigation, Israeli professor Dr. Gal Luft, has laid out his bribery allegations against the president's family in an extraordinary video filmed in an undisclosed location while he's on the run.
In the 14-minute recording, obtained exclusively by The Post, the fugitive former Israeli army officer claims he was arrested in Cyprus to stop him from testifying to the House Oversight Committee that the Biden family received payments from individuals with alleged ties to Chinese military intelligence and that they had an FBI mole who shared classified information with their benefactors from the China-controlled energy company CEFC.
The self-proclaimed fall guy says he provided the incriminating evidence to six officials from the FBI and the Department of Justice in a secret meeting in Brussels in March 2019 — but alleges that it was covered up.
"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 on the run …"
"I'm not a Republican. I'm not a Democrat. I have no political motive or agenda … I did it out of deep concern that if the Bidens were to come to power, the country would be facing the same traumatic Russia collusion scandal — only this time with China. Sadly, because of the DOJ's cover-up, this is exactly what happened …"
Israeli professor Dr. Gal Luft laid out his bribery allegations against President Biden's family in an extraordinary video filmed in an undisclosed location while he's on the run. Luft claims he was arrested in Cyprus to stop him from testifying to the House Oversight Committee that the Biden family received payments from individuals with alleged ties to Chinese military intelligence.AP
"I warned the government about potential risk to the integrity of the 2020 elections … Ask yourself, who is the real criminal in this story?"
The House Oversight chairman, Republican James Comer, who was preparing to interview Luft before Luft disappeared, says the Israeli remains a "potential witness" in the Biden family probe, despite his fugitive status.
It remains to be seen whether Luft is the man who will bring down the Bidens, but he is not going quietly into the sunset.
He is determined to tell the American public his version of the truth.
Calling himself "patient zero of the Biden family investigation," Luft, 57, says he is innocent of charges of conspiring to sell Chinese weapons to Kenya, Libya and the UAE, of violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), and of making a false statement.
He says he was forced to skip bail in Cyprus in April while awaiting extradition "because I did not believe I will receive a fair trial in a New York court."
The self-proclaimed fall guy says he provided the incriminating evidence to six officials from the FBI and the Department of Justice in a secret meeting in Brussels in March 2019 but alleges that it was covered up.CNP / Polaris
'Make evidence public'
Now he is challenging the government to release the minutes of the Brussels meeting and make public the evidence against him.
"Why did the DOJ choose to unseal the indictment on Nov. 1, 2022, the very same week of the midterm elections?" he asks.
"Could this have anything to do with the fear that once Republicans gain control over Congress and begin to investigate, [the DOJ] cover-up would be on full display?"
Luft says he told the DOJ and the FBI in Brussels that Joe Biden, soon after his vice presidential term ended, had attended a meeting at the Four Seasons Hotel in Washington, DC, with his son Hunter and officials from CEFC.
Luft's account of the former VP's presence at that meeting was corroborated 21 months later when the FBI interviewed another attendee, Biden family associate Rob Walker, according to recent testimony before Congress.
Luft disclosed during the Brussels interview that CEFC was paying $100,000 a month to Hunter and $65,000 to his uncle Jim Biden, in exchange for their FBI connections and use of the Biden name to promote China's Belt and Road Initiative around the world — and that the money was being funneled through Walker.
The Oversight Committee has written to Walker demanding he submit to questioning about his role in distributing more than $1 million from China to at least three of President Biden's relatives.
The DOJ sent a delegation of six people to meet Luft in Brussels, he alleges: four FBI agents and two prosecutors from the Southern District of New York, Daniel Richenthal and Catherine Ghosh.
Among the FBI contingent was Special Agent Joshua Wilson from the Baltimore field office, who would go on to sign a subpoena later that year to seize Hunter's abandoned laptop from a Delaware repair shop.
"Why did the government dispatch to Europe so many people?" asks Luft.
"They knew very well I'm a credible witness and I have insider knowledge about the group and individuals that enriched the Biden family.
"Over an intensive two-day meeting, I shared my information about the Biden family's financial transactions with CEFC, including specific dollar figures. I also provided the name of Rob Walker, who later became known as Hunter Biden's bagman."
Rep. James Comer, who was preparing to interview Luft before he disappeared, says the Israeli remains a "potential witness" in the Biden family probe, despite his fugitive status.Getty Images
Think-tank ties
He also told the DOJ and the FBI in Brussels that Hunter had an FBI mole named "One Eye" who had tipped off his CEFC associates, Dr. Patrick Ho and Chairman Ye Jianming, that they were under investigation.
Luft is well connected in intelligence circles in Washington, DC, where he ran a think tank, the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security, with former CIA Director James Woolsey and former national security adviser Robert McFarlane as advisers.
He learned in 2017 that Hunter and Jim Biden were being paid by CEFC because Luft was in partnership at the time with a nonprofit think tank associated with the Chinese company.
When Ho was arrested in 2017 in New York on bribery charges, the first person he tried to call was Hunter Biden, whom he had paid $1 million as a "legal retainer."
But at his trial, Ho was blocked by prosecutors from mentioning the Bidens, according to Luft.
Ho "paid Hunter Biden a million dollars for God-knows-what [but] was not allowed to mention the word Biden before the jury," says Luft.
Luft also told the DOJ and the FBI in Brussels that Hunter had an FBI mole named "One Eye" who had tipped off his CEFC associates, Dr. Patrick Ho and Chairman Ye Jianming, that they were under investigation.WireImage
"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."
Luft denies the charge that he is an arms dealer: "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."
He also faces FARA charges of acting as an unregistered foreign agent of CEFC.
"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 … Woolsey had been an adviser to my think tank since 2002 and nothing in the article represented Chinese interests."
"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?"
Attorney met with government
A curious addendum to Luft's tale comes in October 2020, days after The Post's bombshell revelations from Hunter's laptop.
Luft dispatched his attorney, Robert Henoch, to Washington to meet the Trump administration's acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue to repeat the allegations he had made in Brussels.
Donoghue also had been assigned by Attorney General Bill Barr in February 2020 to coordinate federal investigations into all Ukraine-related corruption allegations against Joe Biden.
Unbeknownst to Luft, on Sept. 4, Donoghue had ordered the Delaware US attorney to pause the criminal investigation into Hunter to avoid leaks in the two months before the election, according to testimony before Congress.
Donoghue agreed to meet Henoch at a Starbucks near DOJ headquarters and corresponded on his private email, says Luft, who showed The Post the emails between his attorney and the senior official.
"The story is about corruption at the very highest levels of government/politics and I think it can all be corroborated," Henoch wrote.
Nothing ever came of the meeting — until February of this year, when Luft was arrested in Cyprus.
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The DOJ has yet to respond to inquiries from Miranda Devine, The New York Post, Tucker Carlson or anyone else!
Considering the cast of characters and their collective aims and methods, I too would file-13 their requests.
That said, Dr. Luft's video:
My immediate question is why would the Trump DoJ try to squash an investigation into Biden and instead go after the whistleblower?
This is very curious.
A full bucket of dirty hands pointing at each other? That and whistleblowers are partisan 'saints'? Has Miranda Devine run out of money by funding Rasmussen polls? And Tucker, is he hearing echoes of the Titan implosion in the Twitterverse?
Suddenly the left hates whistleblowers and right now there are many!
Yet no credible witnesses against Biden!
They are all credible. Why didn't Garland recuse himself from all things involving Biden?
Crackpot disgruntled ex-employees who were fired for inappropriate behaviors now expressing their opinion that someone did not do something they think they should have are not whistleblowers...
They are officially Not Whistleblowers...
They specifically do not qualify as such!
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Now all the career federal employees are crackpots.
You can't answer that question, can you?
That is what makes this so blatantly obvious.
Sounds like an invitation to play whataboutism.
The corruption here stinks to high Heaven.
You can't smell it in Canada? Still smokey there?
'We' get whiffs of it whenever DeSantis visits a northern state, hopefully he won't go to N.H. and ruin my daughter's wedding.
You know what we call NH?
That's the Canadian Riviera.
worse ...
With dummies chanting nonsense like that in the GoP wilderness, no wonder Sununu bowed out. Too bad, but y'all were never going to pick a smart guy from the get-go.
BULLSHIT! Everyone knows that those close to powerful persons often personally profit from their access to power. It looks bad but it is perfectly legal for Hunter the same as it is for Donald Trump Jr and Ivanka. You know this. Democrats have long tried to regulate it but the gop blocked that. To complain about the mere implication of influence peddling is just gossip and jealousy unless you can prove criminal acts. So, carry on pretending you just do not get it...
Sure it is but is it legal for Joe to get paid indirectly through offshore accounts for "work" that Hunter did, causing policy decision making?
But you are perfectly OK with US democrats to once again pick the dementia riddled Biden.
Weird thinking.
Joe and Jill Biden's taxes are public going back 30 years. If you could prove that he cheated on his taxes or personally profited from any illicit activity then you would have him. You cannot because he did not. M'kay?
Can you point out we we are supposed to list bribery payments on a 1040 or any other IRS document?
BTW....I never said he did, I asked you if you thought it is wrong to do so.
We're talking about Joe Biden, not Dr. Evil!
You need a believable villain, like Trumpo...
President Biden is neither a brain addled dementia sufferer (Never Funny To Joke About) nor is he a criminal mastermind, although it would require some industrial strength cognitive dissonance for you to believe that he is both simultaneously...
To the gullible right, absence of proof is proof.
Unlike you and others here I have no issue with Biden's mental acuity. Y'all just sore because Chaos-boy turned out to be a loser par excellence. Even the much ballyhooed Barr has come to that conclusion.
Next time a train rolls through town on its way to Jordan, hop on it.
That's one way to destroy your credibility.
It still stands taller than your credulity.
Sununu could have been anything he wanted to be in the state of NH, including Senator. That would have given the GOP congress in the last election, but evidently somebody put the idea of the Presidency in his head. I wonder when reality struck for Chris?
Israeli prof. wanted for arms dealing vanishes before US extradition
The Israeli professor Gal Luft was released on bail while a court deliberated on his extradition to the US, where he is wanted for arms trafficking charges.
Israeli professor Gal Luft, who is wanted by US authorities for arms dealing , has gone missing in Cyprus after a Larnaca court had released him on bail, Cypriot website Philenews reported on Wednesday.
Luft had been arrested at Larnaca International Airport, in southern Cyprus, after Interpol issued an arrest warrant against him on suspicion of arms trafficking to Libya and China. He was then slated for extradition to the United States.
The professor is in good company with the Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout. I would check around St. Petersburg if they want to find him.
I doubt if there is a more credible witness in the world.../s
He jumped bail but he is believable.
Better stow your giggling until you actually click on the links your quoted article has.
"for arms dealing" links you to an article about guns being smuggled into the West Bank- no mention of Luft what-so-ever. The second link the article "missing in Cyprus" talks about the problems Israelis have with Cyprus; and why they are still going there.
The last link "Luft had been arrested" gives even less detail than the seeded article.
So where is the proof he is an arms dealer?. It should be easy to supply. If he was illegally sending arms to Libya Israel would be the first country to grab him and put him on trial. They don't exactly care for Libyans (or any of the factions that reside there)
Anyone that thinks that Garland isn't above filing overblown charges hasn't been paying attention. I wouldn't trust him either.
Prove it! Viktor Bout was a well known arms dealer; with a world wide reputation. Has anyone ever heard of Luft before this?
In case you missed it- he supposedly worked for the Chinese and Libyans. Why would he be in Russia? Think Putin really needs a supposed arms dealer no one has ever heard of before? Who only has connections to the Chinese- who Putin is already do business with- and he has direct contact to Xi; and Libya- who can't afford shit with the mess that country is in.
Democrats put forward a whistleblower that wasn't even present during a Trump conversation with Ukraine. He cobbled together the information from second and third hand sources. They wouldn't even question the people the whistleblower supposedly spoke to get the information originally.
Democrats will believe any whistleblower; until they come out against a Biden.
If he had evidence of Biden wrong doing from four years ago he would have come foward publicly before now. Especially because he said his reason was to keep Biden from being elected in 2020.
He may have met with the FBI in 2019, when Barr was in charge of the DOJ, but the likelihood is nothing came of it, because there was nothing illegal there.
Another Ronin rant...good job I see that you haven't slacked off in your tirates.
If you are talking about Vindman, everything he said was true. We know that because it was recorded with trumps own voice.
Starting with him pretending not to be the whistleblower / S
Irrelevant. The recorded phone call completely verified Vindman's version.
Irrelevant? As irrelevant as a crackhead bagman willing to sell influence with his father to any nation interested?
Our corrupt FBI can't even find out who left Cocaine in the West Wing. Are there no cameras at 1600 Pennslyvania Avenue?
How stupid do you think people are?
It may not be irrelevant to what you care about, but it is irrelevant to what Vindman testified to.
I know, you think that was an impeachable offense.
How easy do you think that is considering the composition of a very small clear plastic bag? But no, let's jump to blaming the "usual suspects" before the tar hardens and the feathers no longer stick.
So you are saying that someone could have easily brought Anthrax into the West Wing. There are no cameras, no security checks? What about the excellence through diversity the current administration has created?
Yeah, I think trying to extort another country into smearing your political opponent is an impeachable offense.
Joe Biden already did that to himself:
They have sensors for anthrax, not for cocaine.
Lol.
The nose knows.
Here you are being snide just for the sake of being snide. No homework stickers for you!
This place is entertaining!
"Neither Biden nor Trump have committed impeachable offenses."
Maybe Trump will shoot someone in the middle of 5th avenue and put an end to the debate.
Dershowitz is a crackpot by the way.
We now know that only Joe Biden can get away with that!
BTW, there won't be a debate.
It seems that one candidate stands alone in the # 1 slot
Oh look, a shrew!
Does that mean he can't be telling the truth because he may have dealt in arms trafficking?
No, but shady international criminals who are wanted by both the FBI AND by Interpol for dealing arms to terrorists organizations who have skipped out on their bond and are on the lam and who cannot even be located now have zero credibility as a witnesses against The President of the United States of America...
Is that why he is among the missing?
Because he is running from the law?
Yeah!
Prove it
Really? Read the article or Google it...
You said that's the reason. He may be running from something else.
Maybe he has himself on "invisible."
A shrew perchance?
More likely Garland's G-men.
His countenance suggests a shrew but I would like a take on that from Barr's 'ultra honest' G-men.
They were the same G-men. The rank and file over there is straight. It is the upper echelon that are the ideologues and they have been in place since Eric Holder.
Do make up your mind about that ... @!@
Many of them are now whistleblowers.
"Lol."