First Openly Transgender State Legislator in New Hampshire Arrested for Distributing “Child Sexual Abuse Images”

On Thursday, former state Rep. Stacie Marie Laughton was arrested for distributing images depicting child sexual abuse. According to UnionLeader.com:

On Tuesday, June 20, Nashua police responded to a local facility for a juvenile matter, officials said in a release. Officers spoke with individuals there who indicated Laughton allegedly distributed sexually explicit images of children, police said.

Detectives from the Special Investigations Division applied for and were granted a warrant for Laughton’s arrest. She was arrested Thursday with distribution of child sexual abuse images. She was also charged with three additional counts of distribution of child sexual abuse images, Nashua police said.

The first openly transgender person elected to the New Hampshire House of Representatives and perhaps the country, Laughton, quickly resigned the seat shortly after the 2012 victory when a felony conviction from 2008 came to light. Laughton was convicted on conspiracy to commit credit card fraud and was forbidden from holding public office until 2018 when the suspended sentence ended.

Laughton was also convicted of calling in a hoax bomb threat at the Southern NH Medical Center in 2015 and was admitted to a mental health and addiction treatment facility in lieu of a suspended six-month sentence. In addition to the recent arrest for distributing “child sex abuse images”, the disgraced former Rep. was also arrested in September 2022 and again in November 2022 for violating a protective order.

In the November 2022 mid-term election, Laughton somehow won another election despite the convictions and other arrests. However, when Laughton failed to show up for swearing in on Organization Day in December 2022, the NH Democratic Party Chair Ray Buckley called for Laughton to resign.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/first-openly-transgender-state-legislator-new-hampshire-arrested/

Twitter Owner Elon Musk Commits To Upcoming EU Censorship Law

"If laws are passed, Twitter will obey the law."

Ever since he took over Twitter, Elon Musk has been under fire from various political and media corners, and the EU was hardly to be expected to miss out on this witch-hunt of sorts.

Now, Musk appears to be appeasing the Brussels bureaucrats by promising that his social media company will respect EU laws designed to fight “disinformation and hate speech.”

This transpires from an interview Musk gave to the France 2 channel, and according to reports, he phrased it like this (the interview was, as is the custom in continental Europe, dubbed in the local language rather than subtitled):

“If laws are passed, Twitter will obey the law.”

The law he seems to have been referring to, responding to a question, is the Digital Services Act (DSA), which is already in force and will start to be applied on August 25.

It basically regulates content moderation – or, some would say, censorship – on the web.

The EU is certainly not one of those who would call it that – positive language is used instead to describe the legislation, as something that will force big platforms to protect consumers, and, “reduce harm.”

Notwithstanding its actual market position and user numbers – compared to true Big Tech behemoths – the EU now considers Twitter “a very large” platform, and thus, content posted on there is “fair game” under the DSA.

https://thefreethoughtproject.com/be-the-change/twitter-owner-elon-musk-commits-to-upcoming-eu-censorship-law

Merrick Garland Denies Whistleblower Allegations That Biden’s DOJ Interfered in Hunter Biden Criminal Investigation

US Attorney General Merrick Garland on Friday denied the IRS whistleblower allegations detailing the Justice Department’s efforts to block felony recommendations against Hunter Biden.

The House Ways and Means Committee on Thursday released devastating depositions detailing accounts of Biden corruption from two IRS whistleblowers.

The two IRS whistleblowers told lawmakers about the Justice Department’s effort to block search warrants and cover-up Hunter Biden’s tax crimes.

One of the whistleblowers, Gary Shapely, confirmed to prosecutors that Joe Biden met with with officials from CEFC, a Chinese energy company.

Shapely also revealed Hunter Biden demanded payment from his Chinese business associate over WhasApp messenger and used his powerful father as muscle as he issued threats.

The WhatsApp message Hunter Biden sent to Henry Zhao is as follows according to the IRS whistleblower:

“I am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled. Tell the director that I would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand, and now means tonight. And, Z, if I get a call or text from anyone involved in this other than you, Zhang, or the chairman, I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my directions. I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father.”

The whistleblower allegations directly contradict Merrick Garland’s statements under oath about the independence of the Justice Department.

Merrick Garland has repeatedly claimed the DOJ did not block US Attorney David Weiss from aggressively pursuing Hunter Biden.

A reporter asked Merrick Garland about the whistleblower allegations.

Merrick Garland AGAIN denied the allegations and claimed David Weiss was never blocked from bringing charges against Hunter Biden.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/merrick-garland-denies-whistleblower-allegations-that-bidens-doj/

German Politicians Move to Ban and Eliminate the AfD Populist Party – The Largest Opposition Party in Germany Saying It’s a “Threat to Democracy” – Where Have We Heard This Before?

The greatest threat to the globalist left is an educated and organized citizenry.

German Leftists moved this month to ban and eliminate their main rival – the Alternative for Germany (AfD) political party. The AfD is currently the largest threat to the socialists in Germany and continues to gather support from the German people who are exhausted from the failed and punishing policies of the ruling elite.

The typical smears by the ruling socialists, that the AfD is a radical racist right-wing party, are no longer working on the masses. So now the socialists want to outlaw the party.

Last year a German court ruled that the far-right party posed a threat to democracy and allowed the country’s security services to monitor it.

A recent study by the German Institute for Human Rights examining the possibility of a ban on the Alternative for Germany (AfD) has once again put the far-right party in the spotlight.

The study published on June 7 states that the AfD now poses such a threat to the country’s democratic order “that it could be banned by the Federal Constitutional Court.”

According to the institute, the AfD could be legally banned because it explicitly aims to “eliminate the free democratic basic order” and “abolish the guarantee of human dignity enshrined in the Basic Law”.

The AfD, founded in 2013, has been accused of anti-democratic tendencies, although it officially supports democracy in Germany.

Where have we seen this before? It’s like the German globalists are using the Democrat Party handbook.

The German globalists likely learned this new technique from US Democrats who use the full strength of the government to go after their political opponents today, including arresting President Trump and raiding his home on junk charges – while at the same time ignoring the confirmed criminal acts of the sitting president and his crime family.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/german-politicians-move-ban-eliminate-afd-populist-party/

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https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1672048775463047168

RINO Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer Files Defamation Lawsuit Against Kari Lake – Lawsuit Backed By Soros Tied Protect Democracy Project

Protect Democracy, on behalf of Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer, has filed a defamation lawsuit against Kari Lake, her campaign, and the Save Arizona Fund nonprofit, alleging “harmful falsities to further their own agenda–and line their own pockets–at Richer’s expense.”

The lawsuit claims that Kari Lake used her social media platforms, interviews, and public speeches to defame Richer by criticizing Maricopa County’s handling of the 2022 election by implicating him in the machine and printer failures on election day and early ballots with no chain of custody.

“Since the November 2022 election, Defendants have repeatedly and falsely accused Richer of causing Lake’s electoral defeat, including by claiming that Richer–a registered Republican– sabotaged the election to prevent Republican candidates, including Lake, from winning,” states the filing.

However, Richer, who oversaw early voting, founded and operated the Pro-Democracy Republicans PAC, a dark money PAC aimed at eliminating candidates with a MAGA agenda.

Maricopa County Chairman Bill Gates, who oversaw the Election Day operations, openly rooted against Trump-Endorsed candidates, calling their primary election wins a “catastrophe” and saying, “I think they are electable, which is frightening.”

Together, they both starred in an ad by Never-Trump groups to discredit auditors of Maricopa County’s 2020 election and attack supporters of the audit and Trump-Endorsed Republican candidates.

Protect Democracy lawyers are now asking the Court, on behalf of Stephen Richer, for nominal damages, punitive damages, attorneys fees, cost of suit, retraction of “false and defamatory statements,” and a jury trial.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/rino-maricopa-county-recorder-stephen-richer-files-defamation/

Distraction? Questions Swirl Over Timing Of Sub Story As Biden Bombshells Hit Target

As two IRS whistleblowers prepared to go public with more damning information implicating the Biden administration in a scheme to bury evidence of Hunter Biden's tax crimes - as well as the revelation that Joe Biden was 'in the room' when Hunter shot a threatening message to a Chinese business associate demanding payment, a story which some have called "the biggest political scandal this country has ever seen", another story captivated the nation: the deaths of missing submarine passengers who set off last weekend to see the Titanic, only to lose contact shortly into the trip.

Late Thursday the Wall Street Journal reported that "A top secret military acoustic detection system designed to spot enemy submarines first heard what the U.S. Navy suspected was the Titan submersible implosion hours after the submersible began its voyage," and that "the U.S. system detected what it suspected was the sound of an implosion near the debris site discovered Thursday."

What's more, it's not like the military took days to try and figure out what the sound was. "While not definitive, this information was immediately shared with the Incident Commander to assist with the ongoing search and rescue mission."

So, the Biden administration knew on Sunday (while not definitive), that the submarine sounded as if it had imploded hours into its journey. What's more, they let everyone think the passengers were alive.

This has led many to wonder whether the Biden administration allowed people to think the sub passengers were still alive, despite information and belief that the sub had likely imploded early into the voyage, a story arc that would have fizzled out much sooner and turned the public's attention to the far greater bombshell of a story surrounding the latest alleged crimes by the Bidens.

Furthermore, while an official death announcement from submersible company OceanGate was predicated on the discovery of a debris field, that may not be enough for those questioning how the sub story came to captivate the nation on the same day the most damning evidence to date against the president's family emerges.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/distraction-questions-swirl-over-timing-sub-story-biden-bombshells-hit-target

Biden Administration Approves $9.2 Billion Loan to Ford for US-based EV Battery Plants

In the biggest Electric Vehicle (EV) manufacturing loan ever, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has agreed to lend $9.2 billion to a joint venture of Ford Motor Company and South Korean partner SK On to build three battery plants in Tennessee and Kentucky.

The joint venture, called Blue Oval SK, obtained the conditional low-interest government loan from the Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing loan program in a move to compete with China in the EV battery market.

Two battery manufacturing plants will be built in Kentucky and one in Tennessee, collectively capable of producing more than 120 gigawatt hours’ worth of batteries, according to the DOE.

The factory construction will create 5,000 construction jobs, and 7,500 operations jobs once the plants are up and running

Jigar Shah, head of the DOE’s Loan Programs Office, said in an interview that the rationale was “to have people choose to put these supply chains here in the United States, not in other countries, and to do them faster and more confidently here.”

Two years ago, BlueOval SK already announced their plans to invest $11.4 billion to build three battery plants in the United States, in addition to an F-150 EV truck assembly plant.

BlueOval SK CEO Robert Rhee said the loan will be used to “strengthen critical domestic supply chains, and produce high-quality batteries for future Ford and Lincoln electric vehicles.”

The $430 billion Inflation Reduction Act approved in August also created a $45 per kilowatt battery production tax credit. According to Ford, this could lead to a combined tax credit in excess of $7 billion over the coming three years.

Though the investments target Republican-leaning states, many Republicans have criticized the Biden administration vigorous push toward EVs and away from more reliable fossil fuels. In Thursday’s hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, the administration faced more criticism.

“People are struggling to afford some of the highest energy and auto prices in decades as a result of Biden’s energy and inflation crisis,” House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) and Environment, Manufacturing, and Critical Materials Subcommittee Chair Bill Johnson (R-Ohio) said in a statement, adding that the rush toward green energy policies are hurting middle and low-income families the most.

Another concern is that China’s control of the minerals required for battery construction may lend the Chinese Communist Party unprecedented leverage over the future world economy.

Recently, Japanese carmaker Toyota came under pressure from its investors for its reluctance to go full-EV as it anticipates “tremendous bottlenecks” in ore supplies will accompany the global switch towards EVs.

https://www.ntd.com/biden-administration-approves-9-2-billion-loan-to-ford-for-us-based-ev-battery-plants_927165.html

Hunter Biden was at Joe’s Delaware home the same day he used his dad as leverage in China biz text, laptop photos reveal

First son Hunter Biden was at father Joe’s Wilmington, Del., home the same day he used the future president as leverage in a text message sent to a Chinese business associate to close a deal, photos found on his abandoned laptop show — and other evidence suggests the elder Biden was around as well.

Hunter posed in four pictures with a pair of female family members in Joe Biden’s 1967 Corvette Stingray on the evening of Sunday, July 30, 2017, according to metadata obtained by conservative nonprofit group Marco Polo and first reported by the Washington Free Beacon.

Hours before, Hunter sent a threatening WhatsApp message to Harvest Fund Management director Henry Zhao, saying he was “sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled.”

“Tell the director that I would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand, and now means tonight,” the now-53-year-old said. “And, Z, if I get a call or text from anyone involved in this other than you, Zhang, or the chairman, I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction.”

Shapley said IRS investigators looking into the first son’s finances obtained the message from Hunter’s iCloud in August 2020 via a search warrant.

Zhao, a Chinese Communist Party official, ended up paying $100,000 to Hunter’s firm Owasco P.C., Shapley and a second anonymous IRS investigator told the House panel.

The message and the photos cast fresh doubt upon President Biden’s repeated claims that he never spoke with his son about his overseas business dealings.

Hunter Biden agreed Tuesday to plead guilty to two misdemeanors counts of failing to pay at least $100,000 in taxes on his foreign income in both 2017 and 2018 — ahead of the release of depositions by Shapley and another IRS investigator on the case who accused Biden appointees at the Justice Department of a coverup in the case by blocking harsher charges in jurisdictions outside Delaware.

Two days before Hunter’s message, on Friday, July 28, Biden was photographed minutes away from his home at the BBC Tavern and Grill in Greenville, Del., according to a tweet unearthed by Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY).

“When your aunt and uncle casually live 5 miles from Joe Biden and see him at dinner and hangout [sic],” a Twitter user said before sharing photos of her family members grinning next to the then-former vice president.

https://nypost.com/2023/06/23/hunter-biden-at-joes-delaware-home-the-day-of-china-text/

‘Rub It With Your Finger’ – WHO Teaches Kids Masturbation.

The World Health Organization (WHO) is teaching children about masturbation with a video showing adults talking to children about their genitals, as part of the new ‘Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE)’ guidelines. The clip shows an adult telling a nine-year-old girl, “sex is not only functional when you’re just making babies. I’ve said before that it’s also fun to do, you discover how your body works, and how my body works.” The same woman then explains to the girl that touching your clitoris “gives you a very nice feeling; it’s actually very nice when you’re touching that button. For example, you can rub it with your finger.” Another adult is then shown asking a toddler: “Do you ever play with your d*ick? Do you ever play with your willy? Yes, and how does that feel?” Before asking whether the boy plays with his genitals at school. CSE aims to “equip children and young people with knowledge, skills, attitudes and values that will empower them to… develop respectful and sexual relationships,” states a report from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.

https://thenationalpulse.com/2023/06/23/rub-it-with-your-finger-who-teaches-kids-masturbation/

FTX sues former Hillary Clinton aide over $700 million in ‘misappropriated funds’

FTX is seeking to claw back some $700 million from a former aide to Hillary Clinton-turned Hollywood super agent who was allegedly showered with cash by disgraced fallen crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried.

The bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange took legal action on Thursday against Michael Kives, who was an assistant to then-Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.), and his company, K5 Global, and firm co-founder Bryan Baum.

According to court papers filed in bankruptcy court in Delaware, Bankman-Fried authorized the transfer of $700 million to K5 entities in 2022, and he leaned on K5’s celebrity and business connections in his effort to obtain rescue financing in the days before FTX went bankrupt in November 2022.

As The Post reported in December, Kives — whose celebrity connections include Warren Buffett, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Katy Perry, and Kendall Jenner — stood to lose hundreds of millions of dollars as a result of K5 Global’s business relationship with FTX’s now-defunct investment arm, Alameda Research.

Bankman-Fried, who has been indicted on fraud and money laundering charges by the feds, described Kives as “probably, the most connected person I’ve ever met,” and “a one-stop shop” for political relationships and celebrity partnerships, according to the complaint.

https://nypost.com/2023/06/23/ftx-sues-former-hillary-clinton-aide-over-700-million-in-misappropriated-funds/

ABC, CBS Evening Programming Ignore Bombshell Whistleblower Claims of Hunter Biden’s ‘Preferential Treatment’ from DOJ

ABC’s “World News Tonight” and “CBS Evening News” on Thursday evening ignored the bombshell IRS whistleblower allegations that Hunter Biden received preferential treatment from the Justice Department (DOJ) regarding probes into tax violations.

On Thursday morning, House Republicans released transcripts of two IRS whistleblowers, one of whom provided evidence that Joe Biden was present when Hunter Biden pressured a Chinese business partner to send them millions of dollars, Breitbart News reported.

A second whistleblower also said the DOJ interfered in the effort to investigate Hunter Biden for tax crimes, although Joe Biden’s attorney general recently claimed otherwise.

But ABC and CBS evening news programming ignored the whistleblowers’ publicly available testimony provided by the House Ways and Means Committee.

Their decision to ignore the allegations follows a historical pattern of shielding their viewers from allegations of Biden family wrongdoing:

In October 2021, ABC, CBS, and NBC spent “0 seconds” reporting on Joe and Hunter Biden’s alleged shared bank account, the Republican National Committee’s research team found.

In June 2022, ABC News, NBC News, and CBS News aired only 298 seconds on Hunter Biden’s “Laptop from Hell” story since March 16, when the New York Times confirmed authentication of the laptop, according to Media Research Center.

In June, the network news channels ABC, CBS, and NBC spent zero time on the alleged Biden “bribery” scandal, compared to 291 minutes on the Trump indictment, according to a media watchdog report.

In addition, ABC News acknowledged in March the legacy outlet refused to review Hunter Biden’s abandoned “Laptop from Hell,” all while reporting on the infamous laptop story by printing scoops from Hunter’s legal team.

According to recent polling, 50 percent of Americans believe the national media intend to mislead, misinform, and persuade the public, as just 35 percent say most news organizations can be relied upon.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/06/23/abc-cbs-evening-programming-ignore-bombshell-whistleblower-claims-of-hunter-bidens-preferential-treatment-from-doj/

Whistleblower: Hunter Biden Deducted Payments to Sex Club, Hookers on His Taxes

President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, allegedly deducted tens of thousands of dollars in payments made to a prostitute and a sex club from his taxes, according to an IRS whistleblower.

An anonymous IRS criminal investigator to the House Ways and Means Committee during a June 1 interview that Biden improperly deducted these expenses on his 2018 tax forms. The whistleblower claimed Biden underreported his total income by unto $500,000, or $267,000 using “the most conservative approach.”

“So he underreported his total income by $267,000, if you are using the most conservative approach, and that is a tax loss of $106,000,” the whistleblower told congress. “So that includes deductions for personal wages and salaries paid, personal travel expenses paid, personal children expenses that he paid, and personal other expenses that he paid.”

The whistleblower told Congress that Biden’s “statements in his book completely contradicted what was being deducted on his tax return.”

Biden’s 2018 tax returns are one of the years covered under recent Biden’s plea deal with federal prosecutors, who charged him with a felony gun crime and misdemeanor tax crimes.

Hunter reportedly deducted payments to one of his “personal no-show employees,” but as the whistleblower noted, “she was essentially a prostitute.” Biden called the prostitute his “West Coast assistant.”

The whistleblower explained that Biden also deducted a $10,000 payment that went to a “sex club,” under the guise of it being a “golf club member deposit.”

“He made payments — there’s an $18,000 wire that is made to one of these individuals, and on the wires they say $8,000 in wage and $10,000 in golf — $10k golf club member deposit,” the whistleblower said, according to transcripts of his testimony.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/06/23/whistleblower-hunter-biden-deducted-payments-to-sex-club-hookers-on-his-taxes/

Jim Caviezel calls for unity to fight evil, 'anti-Christian bigotry' from leftists

'Anti-Christian bigotry is the most accepted form of bigotry, right now, in the world,' the actor said.

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/jim-caviezel-calls-for-unity-to-fight-evil-anti-christian-bigotry-from-leftists/

Staff from Disgraced Tavistock Child Sex Change Clinic Set Up Private Practice

Former staff from the disgraced Tavistock gender clinic in London, which is set to be shut down over child safeguarding concerns, have established a private practice to continue offering contested medical interventions to children.

In the wake of NHS England’s decision to shut down the Tavistock Centre and its Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS), which has been accused of offering puberty blocking drugs to children after as little as just one consultation, former staff members have opened up a private clinic named Gender Plus.

According to a report from The Telegraph, Gender Plus is currently offering “specialist gender assessment for children, adolescent and young adults” that can be used as an “onward referral to an appropriate endocrine or surgical team”. The private clinic said that such a service will comprise of around six sessions with a child, mostly held over Zoom calls, at a cost of £275 an hour and an additional £275 for a “surgery referral”.

Gender Plus is also said to be establishing an “associated hormone clinic” run by another former member of Tavistock by the Autumn to provide life altering drugs to children above the age of 16 years old.

The Tavistock Centre, which opened in 1999 and is set to be completely shut down by Spring of next year, “treated” some 19,000 children for allegedly having gender dysphoria, a rare phycological condition in which people feel disconnected from their biological sex. Over a thousand families are reported to be launching legal action against the clinic for misdiagnosing their children.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/06/23/staff-from-disgraced-tavistock-child-sex-change-clinic-set-up-private-practice/

U.S. Attorney Announces Fentanyl Trafficking, Precursor Importation, And Money Laundering Charges Against Chinese Chemical Company And Executives

Company’s Principal Executive and Marketing Manager Arrested and Transported to the United States After Shipping More Than 200 Kilograms of Precursors for Fentanyl and Fentanyl Analogues from China to the United States

Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Merrick B. Garland, the Attorney General of the United States, Lisa O. Monaco, the Deputy Attorney General of the United States, and Anne Milgram, the Administrator of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”), announced today the unsealing of an Indictment charging the Chinese chemical company HUBEI AMARVEL BIOTECH CO., LTD., a/k/a “AmarvelBio,” (“AMARVEL BIOTECH”) as well as its executives and employees QINGZHOU WANG, a/k/a “Bruce” (“WANG”), YIYI CHEN, a/k/a “Chiron” (“CHEN”), and FNU LNU, a/k/a “Er Yang,” a/k/a “Anita” (“YANG”), with fentanyl trafficking, precursor chemical importation, and money laundering offenses. WANG and CHEN, both nationals of China, were expelled from Fiji on June 8, 2023, arrested by the DEA, and presented before U.S. Magistrate Judge Wes Reber Porter in Honolulu federal court on June 9, 2023. WANG and CHEN were ordered detained in Honolulu and will appear in Manhattan federal court following their arrival in the Southern District of New York. YANG, also a national of China, is at large. The case has been assigned to U.S. District Judge Paul G. Gardephe.

U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said: “The indictment unsealed today in the Southern District of New York is the next step in our fight against fentanyl. Today, we target the very beginning of the fentanyl supply chain: the Chinese manufacturers of the raw chemicals used to make fentanyl and its analogues. We’ve charged a Chinese precursor chemical company. And that’s not all. We’ve charged and arrested some of the individuals who work at the company. That includes a corporate executive and a marketing manager. They’re in American handcuffs. And they’re going to face justice in an American courtroom.”

Attorney General Merrick B. Garland said: “When I announced in April that the Justice Department had taken significant enforcement actions against the Sinaloa Cartel, I promised that the Justice Department would never forget the victims of the fentanyl epidemic. I also promised that we would never stop working to hold accountable those who bear responsibility for it. That includes not only going after the leaders of the Cartels, their drug and gun traffickers, their money launderers, security forces, and clandestine lab operators. It also includes stopping the Chinese chemical companies that are supplying the cartels with the building blocks they need to manufacture deadly fentanyl.”

Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco said: “Today’s announcement is a down payment on our pledge to use every tool in the government’s arsenal, in every corner of the globe, to protect American communities. The Justice Department will not rest or relent in investigating and prosecuting every link of the fentanyl supply chain, including the PRC companies and executives who produce and export vast quantities of the precursor chemicals the drug cartels need to peddle their poison. There can be no safe haven.”

DEA Administrator Anne Milgram said: “Today’s announcement is a considerable step forward in our unrelenting fight against fentanyl, targeting the threat where it starts. These companies and individuals are alleged to have knowingly supplied drug traffickers, in the United States and Mexico, with the ingredients and scientific know-how needed to make fentanyl – a drug that continues to devastate families and communities across the United States, killing Americans from all walks of life. The fentanyl supply chain begins in China, but tragically, it ends here. Targeting entire criminal drug networks, from the source of supply to the last mile of distribution, is critical to saving American lives. DEA will not stop until this crisis ends.”

According to the allegations contained in the Indictment and other court filings:[1]

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/us-attorney-announces-fentanyl-trafficking-precursor-importation-and-money-laundering