Rep Comer (R)'s ‘Missing witness’ Gal Luft who accused Biden of China corruption charged with being China agent (among several other SERIOUS indictments)

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‘Missing witness’ who accuses Biden of China corruption charged with being China agent

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Gal Luft also charged in absentia with arms trafficking, violations of sanctions on Iran and making false statements to Federal LEO.

A US thinktank chief who accuses Joe Biden of China-linked corruption involving his son, Hunter Biden, and who has been presented by Republicans as a “missing” witness against the president, was charged with China-linked offenses including failing to register as a foreign agent, arms trafficking and violations of sanctions on Iran.

Gal Luft, 57 and a dual US-Israeli citizen, is co-director of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security (IAGS), based in Maryland, near Washington.

He was charged on Monday in absentia, having skipped bail in Cyprus in April while awaiting extradition.

Announcing the charges, Damian Williams, US attorney for the southern district of New York, said Luft “engaged in multiple, serious criminal schemes.

Now we know why he's "missing." He's on the run from LEO. Comer must be so PROUD of his fake "witness." LMAO

Edited July 11, 2023 by robosmith

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"Gal Luft is a very credible witness on Biden family corruption, provided incriminating evidence to six officials from the FBI and the DOJ in a meeting in Brussels in March 2019." — Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), chairman of the Oversight Committee  https://twitter.com/RepJamesComer/status/1677414170411560962

VERSUS

 

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Gal Luft, the “missing” witness long-touted by Republicans in Congress as the missing link to their probe into alleged Biden family corruption, was accused Monday of being an unregistered foreign agent for China and an international arms trafficker while violating U.S. sanctions on Iran and lying to investigators, among a laundry list of other federal charges. https://www.thedailybeast.com/gops-missing-biden-probe-witness-gal-luft-faces-laundry-list-of-federal-charges

 

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GOP’s Bombshell Anti-Biden Witness Has a Wee Credibility Problem. Why does this keep happening?

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The Republican party, unable to handle the reality that Joe Biden is a very normal American politician who happens to have one extremely messed-up son, has instead constructed a lurid alternate reality in which the president of the United States has masterminded a long-running global scheme to pocket millions while betraying his country.

The most recent accusation of criminality centers around an allegation that Biden accepted bribes from China in cooperation with his son Hunter. Back in May, James Comer, the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, claimed he had a witness who would testify to Joe Biden’s involvement. Then, several days later, Comer said on Fox News that he had lost touch with the witness. “Well, unfortunately we can’t track down the informant. We are hopeful the informant is still there,” he told Maria Bartiromo.

Last week, the New York Post identified Comer’s star witness as Gal Luft, executive director of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security. And as recently as Sunday, Comer was insisting the informant was extremely credible. “He’s very credible and the people on MSNBC who made fun of me when I said we had an informant that was missing, they should feel like fools right now,” he boasted. “And this is their worst nightmare. Again, this is a credible witness that the FBI flew all the way to Brussels to interview.”

Now it turns out Luft is being charged by the Justice Department with working as an unregistered foreign agent on behalf of China, violating the Arms Export Control Act by trying to broker secret arms deals to multiple countries, and conspiring to violate U.S. sanctions by purchasing and selling Iranian oil.

Note that none of these charges involve doing anything illegal with Joe Biden. The first charges involve giving payments to an advisor to Donald Trump.

Republicans have a habit of imputing all of Donald Trump’s crimes to Trump’s opponents, but this is really on the nose. 

It keeps happening because Republican House members like Comer are desperate LIARS.