By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell Book
BBC - Guardian UK - Honduras - ESPN- Review
EASTERN FRONT, March 16 -- The Eastern front was catching fire. In Ukraine there was footage of a bombing in the Donbas.
In Brooklyn the EDNY indicted five men for spying and worse in the US for China, including trying to pay a private detective to manufacturer a scandal, with a prostitute if necessary, to take down a man who'd protested in Tiananmen Square and was now running for US Congress on Long Island. Kompromat indeed.
Kurt watched the press conference head at the Justice Department in Washington, then called in to a press conference by the US Attorney for EDNY Brion Peace.
He asked about the role of China's Mission to the UN in the spy plot, and the role of the UN itself, noting that Antony Blinken himself had announced the persona non grata-ing of a UN "staff member" from Russia the previous week, for using the UN to do the work of autocrats. Wasn't that what Guterres was doing?
An EDNY Magistrate handled the presentments of the three apprehended defendants. All were released on bail, two with the admonition not to go to or near any Chinese government affiliated facilities like the UN Mission of China. And the UN itself?
The third man, strangely a corrections officer in Florida who lived with a teacher in the EDNY but had his bond secured by his mother in Ohio, wasn't so restricted. Could he be the go-between?
After writing up the answer Kurt looked to see if the UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric, or freaky Farhan Haq who was filling in this week while Dujarric counted his money elsewhere, had responded. They hadn't. So he wrote this up to.
The Larry Ray trial was in hiatus with Ray saying he'd had a seizure. So the Eastern front in Brooklyn itself was open, along with the other Chinese spy or visa scam case upstairs in SDNY, US v. Zhongsan Lui. In the elevator a guy asked Kurt what the case he was rushing to was about. It being complex, and wearing the still required COVID mask, Kurt said "Chinese visa fraud."
"Sounds boring," the guy replied. But it wasn't. #TheEasternFront.
Kurt had first heard of Jho Low while still in the UN, before he was thrown out. Jho Low appeared at a UN press conference in front of the ubiquitous and now defiled logo. #TheWeaselOfWallStreet, 1st in a new series
Inner City Press is also covering US v. Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan, the self-rapped Crocodile of Wall Street, a story here, song here
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