The Home Ethics Committee has formally concluded its two-year investigation into allegations that Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) engaged in an affair with honeypot and Chinese language spy Christine Fang, also called Fang Fang.
A Chinese language spy raised money for Democrat Rep. Eric Swalwell and planted an “intern” in his congressional workplace.
A Chinese language nationwide named Fang Fang, AKA, Christine Fang focused politicians in California between 2011 and 2015 on the course of China’s inside spy company and even had intimate relationships with two Midwestern mayors, based on Axios.
In accordance with Fang’s associates, she was in her late 20s or early 30s when she enrolled at a Bay Space college and commenced to focus on politicians and collect intelligence on the course of China’s Ministry of State Safety (MSS).
Fang was a “bundler” for Eric Swalwell and different Democrat candidates however it’s also believed the Chinese language spy and honeypot had an intimate relationship with Swalwell.
Tucker Carlson’s workforce reached out to Swalwell’s workplace and requested if Swalwell had an intimate relationship with honeypot and spy Christine Fang they usually replied they couldn’t remark as a result of that info could possibly be “classified.”
Regardless of this Chinese language spy scandal, Swalwell stays on the Home Intelligence Committee (due to Pelosi) and has entry to a number of the nation’s most extremely labeled info.
In a press release launched on Monday by the Home Committee on Ethics, the committee declared that no additional motion can be taken in reference to the probe that commenced in April 2021.
The committee concluded that there was inadequate proof to assist the allegations that Swalwell “violated Home Guidelines, legal guidelines, or different requirements of conduct in connection along with your interactions with Ms. Christine Fang.”
Learn the letter beneath:
As you’re conscious, on April 9, 2021, the Committee on Ethics (Committee) knowledgeable you that it had decided to analyze allegations raised within the grievance that you might have violated Home Guidelines, legal guidelines, or different requirements of conduct in connection along with your interactions with Ms. Christine Fang. The Committee will take no additional motion on this matter.
The Committee has beforehand reviewed allegations of improper affect by overseas
brokers and in doing so, cautioned that Members ought to take heed to the likelihood that overseas governments could try to safe improper affect by way of items and different interactions. We encourage you to contact the Workplace of Home Safety for any steerage on steps you may take to stop or handle such makes an attempt.It’s not our intention to launch this letter publicly until you make public statements relating to this matter which can be inconsistent with the spirit and objective of this letter.
Following the committee’s choice to conclude the investigation, Swalwell launched a statement saying “It’s time to maneuver on.”
“Practically 10 years in the past I assisted the FBI of their counterintelligence investigation of a marketing campaign volunteer. The case and my help had been briefed to Republican Speaker of the Home, John Boehner, and two years later, Republican Speaker of the Home, Paul Ryan, re-appointed me to the Home Intelligence Committee. Neither Speaker questioned my actions nor politicized my cooperation. Regardless of the FBI repeatedly saying I used to be nothing however useful and by no means accused of wrongdoing, this grievance was filed by a Home Republican,” Swalwell mentioned in a press release Tuesday.
“It’s time to maneuver on. The bipartisan Home Ethics Committee had this case for over two years. They’d the ability of subpoena. They obtained solutions from me in response to requests for info. Immediately, they’re closing this matter and didn’t make a discovering of any wrongdoing.”
“If the intent in bringing this grievance and leveling false smears was to silence me that isn’t going to occur. I’ll proceed to be a voice on behalf of my constituents and a passionate defender of democracy,” he concluded.
