‘Tip Of The Iceberg’: Biden Appointee’s Ties To Alleged Chinese Intel Groups Put Him In Legal Hot Water, Experts Say

President Joe Biden’s appointee representing U.S. business interests in Asia should be investigated for his ties to an alleged Chinese Communist Party (CCP) intelligence front group, multiple legal experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Dominic Ng, CEO of East West Bank, may be required to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), and he may have also violated The Espionage Act (TEA), legal experts told the DCNF after reviewing relevant statutes. Ng served in leadership positions within two organizations identified by China experts as CCP intelligence front groups, the DCNF revealed in a recent investigation.

“It may be prudent for the Biden administration to suspend or put on hold this appointment of Mr. Ng,” Morse Tan, dean of Liberty University’s School of Law, told the DCNF. “An investigation should be engaged in to determine what is going on here because there could be U.S. interests that are at stake that could be damaged, and also advantage given to the Chinese Communist Party, who is well known to be engaged in espionage, intelligence gathering and other such things within the United States.”

East West Bank admitted Friday that Ng had served at an “executive-director level” in an “honorary position” at the China Overseas Exchange Association (COEA). Yet, Ng allegedly withdrew from the organization in 2014 due to “non-participation,” according to an East West Bank spokesman’s statements reported by American Banker on Friday.

The statements were made following a DCNF investigation which found that Ng served as “executive director” at COEA between 2013 and 2017, before the banker began a five-year position with the same title of “executive director” at the related China Overseas Friendship Association (COFA) in 2019.

Chinese intelligence experts, such as former CIA officer Nicholas Eftimiades, have identified both COEA and COFA as front groups for the United Front Work Department (UFWD), a CCP agency overseeing both influence and intelligence operations, according to multiple reports from the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC).

“He should be immediately removed from APEC — at least until a proper FBI investigation clears Ng of any such involvement,” Eric Early, managing partner at the law firm of Early, Sullivan, Wright, Gizer & McRae, told the DCNF.

In response to the DCNF’s investigation, six Republican members of Congress led by Rep. Lance Gooden of Texas sent a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray on Feb. 15, demanding for Ng to be investigated to determine the “extent of Mr. Ng’s knowledge of sensitive information.”

In addition to a suspension from APEC, Ng should also be compelled to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), Tan told the DCNF.

“[FARA] is for U.S. individuals that are agents of a foreign principal — the foreign principal here being the Chinese Communist Party,” said Tan. “[Ng] was involved as the executive director for a couple of front organizations, which both merged into one, and had extensive interactions with the CCP — sometimes high-ranking CCP individuals.”

“In terms of whether or not [Ng] was an ‘agent’ there seems to be a broad understanding of what ‘agent’ means under [FARA] and includes all individuals acting in a political or quasi-political capacity,” Tan told the DCNF.

Based on the available evidence, Michael Chamberlain, director of Protect the Public’s Trust, told the DCNF that it “appears that Mr. Ng may well qualify as an ‘agent of a foreign principal,’ which would require him to register and disclose his relationship under FARA.”

Likewise, Reed D. Rubinstein, Senior Counselor and Director of Oversight and Investigations at America First Legal, told the DCNF that “by virtue of his admitted service” in COEA, Ng “may well have had an obligation to register under FARA.”

“Obviously, there are facts we don’t know about what his role really may have been, and the allegations about the organization and its connections to the CCP,” said Rubinstein. “If those allegations are in fact, true, then, at a minimum, yes, there should have been a [FARA] registration.”

https://dailycaller.com/2023/02/21/biden-dominic-ng-ccp-intel-ufwd-apec-gooden-waltz-tan-rubinstein-early-chamberlain/

‘They’re inhuman’: Far-right MK likens Arab party MKs to sheep, refuses to apologize

Otzma Yehudit’s Almog Cohen films himself in Knesset making racist comments about Hadash-Ta’al MKs, saying people should ‘talk to them in a language they understand’

A far-right MK filmed himself at the Knesset plenum on Monday making racist comments about opposition lawmakers, including treating a lawmaker from a majority-Arab party like a farm animal while saying one should “talk to them in a language they understand.”

With one exception in the case of a Yesh Atid lawmaker, MK Almog Cohen of Otzma Yehudit refused to apologize to all but one of the lawmakers he heckled on Tuesday and went on to explicitly say MKs in the Hadash-Ta’al alliance were “not worthy of being sheep, they’re not humans,” vowing to make “their lives miserable.”

In his video, which was streamed live on social media, Cohen is seen filming Hadash MK Ofer Cassif — the only Jewish MK in Hadash-Ta’al — and making clicking and hissing noises at him to draw his attention.

“Shut your trap!” he calls out, before calling out the Arabic word “Uskut!” (“Be silent”) and making animal calling sounds.

“When you talk to them in their language they understand you,” he says to lawmakers in his vicinity, including Shas party leader Aryeh Deri, who appears to chuckle. “You need to talk to him like a sheep.”

“I’m not telling him to be quiet in Hebrew because he doesn’t speak Hebrew,” Cohen adds, also likening the MK to a dog.

He also says of Ta’al’s Ahmad Tibi, a trained gynecologist: “That’s a doctor. I wouldn’t let him treat my dog.”

Cohen goes on to say Yesh Atid’s Merav Ben-Ari “has a voice like a floor cleaner’s.”

At another point, Likud MK May Golan approaches Cohen, urging him to shout the word “out” in Arabic — like a shepherd to his flock — at an unidentified female lawmaker.

“Not to Jews,” he says in response, apparently ignoring the fact that Cassif is Jewish. “To Jews, I yell ‘take a hike.'”

On Tuesday, Cohen said he was sorry — but only to Ben-Ari for making an “unfortunate comment” about her. He was entirely unapologetic about his comments on Hadash-Ta’al MKs.

“These MKs are terror supporters,” he was quoted as saying by the Walla news site. “My goal is to make them feel uncomfortable and whatever causes that is legitimate.”

Speaking with Channel 12 news, he went even further.

“They’re traitors. It might have been inappropriate because they’re not worthy of being sheep, they’re not humans. I will make their lives miserable,” he said.

He was also adamant in his refusal to apologize during an interview with Radio 103FM.

“I understand you don’t jibe with my style, but I’m coming and representing the nation,” Cohen said.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-video-from-knesset-far-right-mk-likens-lawmaker-from-arab-party-to-farm-animal/

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