In September, Washington Examiner national security writer and editor Tom Rogan questioned the Biden administration’s “strange tolerance” for the apparent corruption of the Albanian government. Rogan argued, “Compelling evidence suggests that [Albanian Prime Minister Edi] Rama may be directly involved in a narcotrafficking alliance between Albanian mobsters and the Mexico-based Sinaloa cartel.”
Not only has the Biden administration turned a blind eye to the malfeasance of Rama’s government, in May 2021, Secretary of State Antony Blinken designated former Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha, Rama’s enemy, as ineligible to travel to the U.S. “due to his involvement in significant corruption.”
The New York Post described Berisha as “the anti-Communist ally of Presidents George H.W. and George W. Bush, who has been in opposition for eight years, and who is a vocal opponent of Soros and his Open Society Foundations, which has been pushing judicial and electoral ‘reform’ in Albania.”
Citing a report in Mexico’s El Universal, Rogan detailed the corruption of Rama’s government and concluded he “appears to be involved in a narcotrafficking conspiracy involving the Sinaloa cartel. That is to say, the cartel responsible for the largest share of narcotics smuggling into the United States. And for whatever reason, the Biden administration does not appear terribly bothered by this.”
In his Friday podcast, Fox News’ host Dan Bongino cited Rogan’s article and connected a few more dots between Rama’s corrupt government, and the activities of such seemingly disparate entities as CEFC China Energy Co., George Soros’ Open Society Foundations, and the arrest of retired FBI special agent Charles McGonigal, the former head of counterintelligence at the agency’s New York Field Office.
McGonigal, who was arrested earlier this month, was charged in two separate indictments. In New York, he is accused of taking money from an associate of Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska. In Washington, D.C., he is alleged to have received “$225,000 in secret cash payments” from a former Albanian intelligence employee, according to the New York Times.
The indictment claims that McGonigal opened a criminal investigation at the New York Field office, “into foreign lobbying in which the former Albanian intelligence employee, who was not named in the indictment, provided information as a confidential informant,” the Times reported.
McGonigal’s indictment states: “8. Person B was an Albanian national who was employed by a Chinese energy conglomerate. Person B operated as an informal· advisor to the Prime Minister of Albania, … and was a former Albanian senior government official.”
Not insignificant is that, according to Bongino, McGonigal’s attorney, Seth DuCharme is “buddies” with Special Counsel John Durham, who is probing the origins of the FBI’s investigation into Trump’s 2016 campaign.
The Chinese energy conglomerate is presumed to be CEFC China Energy Co., a now-bankrupt company that had close ties to the Chinese Communist Party and a long history of bribing foreigners into doing the CCP’s bidding.
Just ask Hunter Biden who had relationships with several of CEFC’s top executives. The 3.16-carat diamond the company’s former chairman, Ye Jianming, bestowed upon Hunter was only the beginning. Ultimately, CEFC would pay Hunter and James Biden nearly $5 million.
Recall the New York Post’s blockbuster report that Hunter Biden was involved in a 2017 joint venture with CEFC in which he was slated to receive 20% of potential profits. “Jim,” who is likely James Biden, was to receive 10%. And an additional 10% was to be held by “H” for “the big guy,” who Hunter’s former business partner, Tony Bobulinski, has gone on the record to say is “1,000%” Joe Biden.
George Soros’ organization was also busy trying to buy influence in Albania. In April 2018, government watchdog group Judicial Watch obtained documents via a FOIA request that showed U.S. taxpayer funds were sent to a Soros-backed group “to fund left-wing activities in Albania.”
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said at the time: “The Obama administration quietly spent at least $9 million in U.S. taxpayers’ dollars in direct collusion with left-wing billionaire George Soros’ backing of a socialist government in Albania,” so they could gain “greater control of the judiciary system.”
From Blinken’s sanctioning of the anti-communist enemy of Albania’s corrupt prime minister to CEFC’s employment of “Person B,” the Albanian national referenced in the indictment of a crooked former FBI agent, these seemingly random events tell a frightening story.
They tell us the “American experiment” may be over. We have relinquished our role as the world’s leader. Rather than calling out the malfeasance of a corrupt foreign leader, U.S. leaders have either looked the other way or worse, aided and abetted it. They’ve shown they are willing to sell out the country for money or for power.
Rogan’s question is even more relevant today. “Why is the Biden administration playing so nice with Rama’s regime?”
A previous version of this article appeared in The Washington Examiner.
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