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A federal jury has indicted a current U.S. Department of Homeland Security agent, as well as a former one, in connection with an alleged Chinese government-sponsored scheme to spy on U.S.-based Chinese critics of Beijing, the Justice Department said on Thursday.
Craig Miller, a 15-year DHS employee, and Derrick Taylor, a retired DHS agent working as a private investigator, are accused of accessing and providing information about the Chinese activists from a rest cited government database to two other individuals who used the records to target the victims, according to the indictment.
Miller and Taylor were arrested in June. They each face one count of obstruction of justice.
The Conservative Brief reported:
Taylor faces an additional charge of making a false statement to the FBI in connection with the investigation.
Three others indicted in the case – Fan “Frank” Liu, Matthew Ziburis, and Qiang “Jason” Sun – allegedly carried out “the transnational repression scheme to target U.S. residents whose political views and actions are disfavored” by the Chinese government, such as advocacy for democracy in China, the Justice Department said.
The three men face multiple criminal charges, including conspiring to commit interstate harassment and criminal use of a means of identification. In addition, Liu and Ziburis are charged with acting as agents of the Chinese government without registering with the Justice Department, while Liu and Sun are charged with conspiring to bribe a federal official.
Liu and Ziburis were arrested in March. Sun, who is a Chinese citizen and allegedly orchestrated the scheme, remains at large.
“We will defend the rights of people in the United States to engage in free speech and political expression, including views the PRC [People’s Republic of China] government wants to silence,” Matthew Olsen, assistant attorney general for national security, said in a statement. “As charged, these individuals aided agents of a foreign government in seeking to suppress dissenting voices who have taken refuge here.”
It’s reported that the goal of the conspiracy was to “discredit” pro-democracy Chinese dissidents living in New York City, San Fransisco, and Indiana. They wanted to spears derogatory information about them, according to the indictment.
Liu Pengyu, a spokesperson for the Chinese Embassy in Washington commented:
“I’m not aware of the specific situation. I would like to stress in principle that the Chinese side always asks overseas Chinese citizens to comply with the host country’s laws and regulations. We firmly oppose acts by the U.S. that groundlessly malign and smear China,” he said.
This is not the only bad news for the Biden administration.
The Raging Patriot previously reported that there is now more evidence mounting to impeach Biden for his family ties to China:
“President Joe Biden’s administration sold 950,000 barrels of oil from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve to a Chinese state-owned gas company that has financial ties to a private equity firm co-founded by Hunter Biden, according to a Washington Free Beacon report.
In April, Biden’s Department of Energy announced the nearly one million barrel sale to Unipec, which is the trading arm of Sinopec. Sinopec is wholly owned and operated by the Chinese Communist Party.
Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, reportedly has financial ties to the CCP-owned Sinopec. A private equity firm Hunter Biden co-founded reportedly purchased a nearly $2 billion stake in Sinopec Marketing in 2015.”
There are a lot of suspicious activities happening within this administration. The Bidens are making fantastic deals for their pocketbooks with the CCP. Meanwhile, Americans are struggling to get gas for their cars.
What about Biden doing some jail time for his treasonous sales of US oil reserves to China????