Qatar’s Royal Family just got exposed running a US spy ring
Lawyers representing the State of Qatar in a federal lawsuit just exposed their Royal Family’s links to a US spy ring in a desperate bid to shield communications with their cutouts from discovery in open court.
The Gulf nation of Qatar is fighting lawsuits by a high-level Trump supporter who accuses them of state-sponsored hacking and the Big 3 Basketball League who accuses their unregistered agents of involving them in a political influence operation.
A source in New York with knowledge of the lawsuits believes that public release of these records could expose key details related to Qatari Royals’ role in the Trump Russia dossier.
A pair of recent court filings in two federal courts just linked both of Qatar’s known spy rings — in New York and Los Angeles — together under the direction of a high ranking member of the Royal Family, the Emir’s younger brother, Sheikh Mohammed bin Hamad Al Thani who’s known as “MBH.”
MBH ran Qatar’s corrupt bid to win host duties for the 2022 World Cup that ultimately led a the massive FIFA corruption scandal that ousted the world soccer governing body’s top executive and board members. Former MI-6 officer Christopher Steele contributed key information to the FBI’s investigation of soccer corruption.
Currently, MBH sits atop the peninsula’s Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy which is in charge of extensive infrastructure spending by Qatar to accommodate the World Cup. It’s the same Committee in charge of the stadium building projects that employ what the Guardian calls “modern day slavery” and cost 1,200 workers their lives in a seven year period.
The Big3 League’s latest lawsuit against a corrupt former employeee accuses MBH of operating as the paymaster for the Qatari spies.
Qatari agents Ahmed Al-Rumaihi and his Miami-based partner Ayman Sabi tried to use one of the league co-owner’s past business relations with Steve Bannon to obtain access to the former White House senior advisor.
But the basketball league says it has learned that the reason Al-Rumaihi failed to complete Qatar’s investment payments is because MBH decided that it was an ineffective spying operation.
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When I broke the story of the Big 3 League’s filing last month linked Qatar to Flynn, Qatar’s spokesman Connor Moriarty emailed me claiming that it was a “work of Hollywood fiction.” The Kekst and Company representative also claimed, “Numerous court documents will show that Sport Trinity is an investment entity, not a spy ring.”
Little did he know that the State of Qatar would file documents stating exactly the opposite just 34 days later, proving beyond a doubt that Qatar has an American spy ring, and that Al-Rumaihi is involved.
On June 15th, 2018 State of Qatar’s attorneys at Covington filed a letter to Judge Katherine B. Forrest saying that that they hired Nick Muzin — a Ted Cruz backer and lobbyist at Stonington Strategies — to be their registered foreign agent with an unusual mission.
In that filing, Qatar’s lawyer Mitchell Kamin actually admitted that Muzin’s role was to funnel cash to a failing kosher restauranteur in New York City for secret disbursement to right-wing American Jewish groups in course of the Emirate’s diplomatic efforts to sway their foes.
Their agent used $100,000 of Qatari cash to get their former Consul Ahmed Al-Rumaihi a table at a Zionists of America event where Steve Bannon was speaking after he was fired from the White House, but before the Mercers fired him from his role atop Breitbart in the wake of publication of Michael Wolff’s book Fire and Fury.
Qatar filed the stunning admission in the Emirate’s legal strategy to use the protections of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.
Kamin is seeking to halt documents from their unregistered agent Joey Allaham from being released through the discovery process in a federal suit filed by disgraced former RNC National Finance Chair Elliot Broidy.
Then, Allaham waived his rights to contest discovery before Qatar intervened in the case on his behalf, but by then, the damage was done.
Broidy’s hacked emails have been widely disseminated to news agencies demonstrating that he secretly lobbied President Trump for Qatar’s enemies/neighbors in Saudi Arabia the United Arab Emirates, the latter of whom gave him a $200 million security contract.
That’s why Broidy filed suit under the non-commercial tort exemption to sovereign immunity which typically protects nation states from lawsuits in the US federal court system.
Here is the State of Qatar’s court filing admitting that they have been running a spy ring in New York with a former kosher restaurateur:
Former US Consul Ahmed Al-Rumaihi made headlines last month when his boasts about a payoff to Trump’s convicted former National Security Advisor Gen. Flynn appeared in a sworn affidavit filed by the Harvard-trained lawyer who co-owns the league with world-famous rapper Ice Cube.
Al-Rumaihi’s claims were partly confirmed when I found a C-SPAN video showing the Qatari entering the lobby elevators of Trump Tower with Michael Cohen on December 12th, 2016, when he was still in charge of Qatar Airways via his former position in a division of the nation’s sovereign wealth fund.
Later, Al-Rumaihi admitted to The Intercept that Cohen demanded a million dollar bribe just days before the meeting which he setup with Gen. Flynn, which I exclusively reported also included the Qatari Foreign Minister, himself a member of the Al Thani Royal Family.
Former Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak visited Trump Tower the same day according to the House Intel Committee’s minority report.
The timing of the Qatari visit to Trump Tower shortly after the massive Russian oil privatization deal outlined in Christopher Steele’s Trump Russia dossier raises legitimate questions about Donald Trump’s involvement in brokering the transaction.
This week’s revelation that Mohammed bin Hamad Al Thani is Al-Rumaihi’s ultimate source of funds and not the QIA raises the stakes by linking all of the operations to a powerful top member of Qatar’s Royal Family who is close to the Emir.
Meanwhile, the unraveling of Qatar’s secret influence activities have erupted into a major political scandal
Lobbyist Nick Muzin was hired “to make Qatar kosher in America’s eyes” when he turned to the struggling Kosher restauranteur, but instead suddenly quit two and a half weeks ago, by Tweet.
Muzin tried to influence right-wing Jewish leaders like attorney Alan Dershowitz — whose travel to the Emirate was comped — by delivering illicit cash payments from Qatari unregistered agent Joey Allaham to the Zionists of America (ZOA) for tables at galas.
Middle East Forum Director Gregg Roman wrote that Klein should have known better about the pile of lawsuits that led to Allaham’s collapsing financial situation in a tight knit community. He wrote in Forward:
Morton Klein, head of the Zionist Organization of America, and Alan Dershowitz, the famous lawyer and Israel defender, are just two of the prominent pro-Israel Jews who went on free trips to Qatar, and came back praising the country.
The fallout from the Qatar cash scandal should be a warning to Zionist leaders and pro-Israel activists not to get too close to questionable governments or their paid flacks, lest they start believing empty rhetoric because they “like” the messenger.
Klein and Dershowitz both insisted repeatedly that they had not been paid for the trip, aside from the free airfare.
Allaham paid the ZOA a $100,000 table fee for an event, and invited Qatari agent Ahmed Al-Rumaihi, which the group’s leader Morty Klein explained to a national security consultant at the dinner, who later provided that information in a sworn declaration.
Klein is friends with Trump National Security Advisor John Bolton.
Ultimately, Qatar delivered $3 million to their unregistered agent Allaham, which he used to advance their interests. The Jewish Voice writes:
It was in the midst of this turmoil that Allaham found a new source of income… [and] was provided with $3 million to use for his main assignment: to funnel payments from the Qataris to select American Jewish leaders, who would then visit Qatar and help improve the regime’s image.
One Jewish leader, Bronx, NY doctor, Joseph Frager — a gastroenterologist close to Arkansas’ former Republican Gov. Mike Huckabee — had to register as an agent of Qatar after accepting $50,000 from the Emirate via Allaham.
Now, it appears that Qatar’s bumbling influence operation to sway right-wing Jewish activists is also going to lead to the exposure of its true role in the Trump Russia dossier and perhaps, the President’s role in brokering the oil privatization sale.
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