WASHINGTON — When the Justice Department announced last week that a man Republicans considered a witness against the Biden family was actually a fugitive on the run, Republicans said the criminal charges against him only bolstered their case against the Bidens.
Prosecutors said Gal Luft failed to register as a foreign agent while working for the China Energy Fund Committee, a nongovernmental organization linked to a Chinese energy conglomerate with government ties.
“They indicted him for being an unregistered foreign agent. Well, that’s what Hunter Biden was doing for the same company,” House Oversight Committee chair James Comer (R-Ky.) said on Fox News last week.
The Foreign Agent Registration Act, or FARA, requires anyone doing political, public relations or lobbying work on behalf of a foreign individual, organization or government to register with the Justice Department, which makes the information public as a means of combating covert foreign influence in domestic…
