Who Is :"One Eye"?
Luft was arrested in Cyprus in February 2023 on what he claims was "a politically motivated extradition request by the US". Luft claims to be in fear for his life if he is returned to the US. Over the past week, Luft made a video that he sent to the New York Post that repeats allegations he had earlier made in March.
These include that CEFC was paying huge sums to Hunter and Joe's brother James ($100,000 and $65,000 a month) in exchange for use of their family name in promoting China’s interests. He also alleged that Hunter had a pet mole that he called "One Eye" within the FBI, who provided tipoffs to CEFC honchos about incoming heat.
Speculation about the identity of "One Eye" immediately centered on former FBI Director Louis Freeh:
In fact, there are numerous potential connections between Freeh and the Bidens, not least via Hunter and Hallie, but also, following his retirement from the FBI, Freeh established his own consulting firm, Freeh Group International Solutions, in Wimington, DE. The Twitter post refers to a donation that was noted in a New York Post story from May 2021:REPORT: Hunter Biden colluded with an FBI mole named 'One-Eye' to tip off Chinese business partners about investigation.
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) March 23, 2023
Who could this 'One-Eye' be?
Former FBI Director Louis Freeh happens to have one eye. He also happened to donate $100k to Hallie https://t.co/7YEZu7lFqb…
Former FBI Director Louis Freeh gave $100,000 to a trust for two of President Biden’s grandchildren as he sought to pursue “some very good and profitable matters” with him, newly surfaced emails revealed Thursday.
Freeh apparently made the gift in April 2016 — when Biden was the outgoing vice president — and shortly before he told Biden’s son Hunter, “I would be delighted to do future work with you,” according to the emails.
According to the Collin Rugg tweet, the two grandchildren were Hallie's children from her marriage to Hunter's brother Beau, who passed away in May 2015. Hallie immediately began an intense cocaine-driven affair with Hunter after Beau's death. Freeh kept in contact with Hunter thereafter. Accxording to the same story,
“I also spoke to Dad a few weeks ago and would like to explore with him some future work options,” Freeh wrote on July 8, 2016.
“I believe that working together on these (and other legal) matters would be of value, fun and rewarding.”
In another email to Hunter Biden the following year, Freeh described seeing Joe Biden at church earlier in the day “and he said hi walking back from communion–I didn’t get the chance to return greetings.”
But by June of 2016, he was already working with Hunter on another project. According to this New York Post story from June 2021,
Emails obtained from Hunter’s abandoned laptop show the younger Biden — then working as a counsel at Boies Schiller Flexner LLP — reached out to former FBI Director Louis Freeh in June 2016 about the case of Gabriel Popoviciu, who was accused of acquiring land to build a Bucharest mall at a below-market price, the Daily Mail reported.
In a June 18, 2016, email, Hunter Biden told Freeh — then a partner at the Delaware-based law firm Freeh, Sporkin & Sullivan — that he believed Popoviciu was “a good man that’s being very badly treated by a suspect Romanian justice system … Time is of the essence and my client has never balked at bringing whatever team it takes together at whatever cost to obtain justice.”
While Freeh’s initial response, which began “Thanks for your note and for thinking of me,” was noncommittal, he was soon fully invested in Popoviciu’s case.
“I will see my good friend Ron Noble (former SecGen INTERPOL), in NY on Thursday,” Freeh wrote Hunter three days after the initial email, “and most likely he knows this DNA [Romanian National Anti-Corruption Directorate] prosecutor, Laura Codruta Kobesi, very well. Let me talk to him and see what the possibilities may be to meet with her and to initiate a dialogue which would remediate the situation.”
In a subsequent email, the former FBI head suggested Popoviciu had value to American law enforcement.
“FYI,” Freeh wrote in a July 8 email to Hunter Biden obtained by The Post, “I have had conversations with the head of the FBI’s Criminal Division and there is a sincere Bureau interest in meeting and debriefing Gabriel on other matters he may be willing to discuss.” Freeh did not elaborate on what those “other matters” were.
Later in the email, Freeh told Hunter Biden he would “like to make a small payment to you for this referral-and for your continuing work on this matter. This is a standard practice … We would just need your bank information in order to make a remittance.”
So at least from 2016, there was an ongoing relationship between Hunter and Freeh that involved not just family connections, but business and financial relationships as well. At this point, we don't necessarily know the full extent of these. But this adds further context to a story from this past week:
Delaware US Attorney David Weiss officially filed charges against the president's son last Tuesday after a near five-year probe into his alleged tax crimes and foreign financial dealings.
Weiss's deputy, Assistant United States Attorney Derek Hines, signed off on the charging documents alongside his boss and two other assistant US attorneys – indicating he has a central role in Hunter's criminal prosecution.
According to Hines's LinkedIn account, he previously worked as Special Counsel to ex-FBI director Louis Freeh at his private company, Freeh Group International Solutions, a lobbying and 'risk management' consultancy that teamed up with Hunter on overseas business currently under scrutiny by lawmakers.
. . . Freeh and his firm worked closely with Hunter Biden trying to get the US State Department to help limit the prosecution of Romanian real estate tycoon Gabriel Popoviciu, who was on the brink of a bribery conviction in 2015.
Freeh proposed setting up a private consultancy with Hunter and Joe Biden when he ended his vice presidential term, offering 'lucrative future work options' including working for overseas clients such as corrupt former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak.
The full extent of Hunter's connections to key figures in the deep state remains to be seen, but I have the impression that they go well beyond just Freeh. Another factor that strikes me is that the amounts passing to the Bidens from the various foreign sources are turning out to be much larger than had been suggested by fragmentary reports from earlier this year, which adds to the credibiliity of the oveall allegations. A million here, a million there over eight or ten years was too small to seem worth Joe's time. Now we're starting to see $5 million here and $10 million there, whicxh makes at least somewhat more sense.