Gal Luft, a U.S. think tank leader who has claimed to have damaging information about Hunter Biden, was charged with acting as an unregistered agent for China, arms trafficking, violating sanctions and making false statements, according to a 2022 federal indictment unsealed on Monday.
Two Democrats on the House Oversight Committee—Representative Jamie Raskin of Maryland and Representative Daniel Goldman of New York—have since given a letter to Chairman James Comer, a Kentucky Republican, requesting he provide information he has received from the so-called "whistleblower" Luft.
Allison Gill, host of the Mueller, She Wrote podcast, picked up a line from the Democrats' letter that revealed part of the charges against Luft could have come from a Brussels meeting about the president's son.
"In the letter, Raskin and Goldman explain that the information Luft shared with FBI agents—the information the GOP keeps saying will blow the lid off the Biden probe—took place during a meeting that led to charges against Luft for making false statements to the FBI," Gill wrote on the Mueller, She Wrote Twitter account.
Raskin and Goldman wrote to Comer that Luft "purportedly shared his allegations about Hunter Biden with officials from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Justice in a March 2019 meeting in Brussels. In fact, the indictment alleges Mr. Luft repeatedly lied to federal agents during that very same meeting."
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