Dr. Gal Luft, a key figure in House Republicans’ investigation of the Biden family’s international influence-peddling, faces federal charges of arms trafficking and conspiring to flout US sanctions on Iran, according to a Manhattan indictment unsealed Monday.
Luft, 57, a dual US-Israeli citizen who was arrested in Cyprus this past February and went on the run after being released on bail, has claimed the criminal case is a political hit job meant to stop him from testifying to the House Oversight Committee that the first family received payments from individuals with ties to Chinese military intelligence and that the Bidens had an FBI mole who shared classified information with their benefactors from the China-controlled energy company CEFC.
“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,” Luft told The Post in a video filmed in an undisclosed location last week.
However, the Southern District of New York charges that Luft unlawfully acted as an unregistered foreign agent for CEFC.
As part of his work, the indictment alleges, Luft and an unindicted co-conspirator punched up a dialogue shortly before the 2016 election between the co-conspirator and an adviser to then-candidate Donald Trump.
The official is not named in the indictment, but details about his work correspond with former CIA Director James Woolsey, who quit the 45th president’s transition team in early 2017.
“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?” Luft asked in his video last week.
This is a developing story.
