| Girgis
Charged As Illegal Rep of Egypt in NYC
Where UN Supports Spies for Iran and China
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Jan 6 – In another illegal
spying or representation case,
alongside Eastern District of
New York prosecutions of a
UN-affiliated Iranian spy and
an NYPD officer reporing to
China's Mission to the UN
about Tibetans in New York, on
January 6 the Southern
District of New York unsealed
an indictment charging PIERRE
GIRGIS, a dual Egyptian and
U.S. citizen, with acting and
conspiring to act in the
United States as an
unregistered agent of the Arab
Republic of Egypt.
GIRGIS was
taken into custody on January
6 and Inner City Press is
following the case.
From 2014 to
2019, GIRGIS, a native of
Egypt, acted in the United
States as an agent of the
Egyptian government, without
notifying the U.S. Attorney
General as required by law.
GIRGIS operated at the
direction and control of
multiple officials of the
Egyptian government in an
effort to further the
interests of the Egyptian
government in the United
States. Among other things, at
the direction of Egyptian
government officials, GIRGIS
tracked and obtained
information regarding
political opponents of
Egyptian president Abdel
Fattah el-Sisi.
GIRGIS also
leveraged his connections with
local U.S. law enforcement
officers to collect non-public
information at the direction
of Egyptian officials,
arranged benefits for Egyptian
officials who were visiting
Manhattan, and coordinated
meetings between U.S. and
Egyptian law enforcement in
the United States, including
by attempting to arrange for
Egyptian officials to attend
police trainings.
On
or about May 7, 2018, GIRGIS
discussed his status as an
agent of the Egyptian
government with an Egyptian
official (“Egyptian
Official-1”) using an
encrypted messaging
application. During the
conversation, Egyptian
Official-1 expressed
frustration that GIRGIS had
communicated with personnel
from a different Egyptian
government agency, warned
GIRGIS that “it is not
possible to open with all the
agencies,” and stated that
Egyptian Official-1 was
“letting you [GIRGIS] open
with us only.”
Later in
the encrypted messaging
exchange, Egyptian Official-1
advised GIRGIS that other
Egyptian government agencies
“want sources for themselves,
and you [GIRGIS] have become
an important source for them
to collect information.”
GIRGIS responded, “I know and
I see and I learn from you,”
and then informed Egyptian
Official-1, “it will not be
repeated
again.”
Approximately
one year later, on or about
March 8, 2019, in the course
of GIRGIS’s continuing
operations as an Egyptian
agent, GIRGIS and Egyptian
Official-1 discussed an
upcoming trip of certain
Egyptian officials to the
United States. During that
telephone conversation, GIRGIS
stated, “Tell me what you want
me to do,” and Egyptian
Official-1 responded by
inquiring about GIRGIS’s
relationship with a particular
U.S. law enforcement officer.
Egyptian Official-1 then
instructed GIRGIS “to ask [the
U.S. law enforcement officer]
for something. We want you to
find out if there are any
police trainings happening in
Manhattan in the coming days,
and if so, who are the people
in charge of these trainings?
We would like to attend.”
Later in the conversation,
GIRGIS again asked, “What you
want me to do?” Egyptian
Official-1 directed GIRGIS,
“Make follow up, Ok?” and
GIRGIS agreed by responding,
“Ok.”
GIRGIS, 39,
is a resident of Manhattan.
GIRGIS is charged with one
count of conspiring to act as
an agent of a foreign
government without notifying
the Attorney General, which
carries a maximum sentence of
five years in prison, and one
count of acting as an agent of
a foreign government without
notifying the Attorney
General, which carries a
maximum sentence of 10 years
in prison.
The level of
diplomatic sleaze is
expanding, particular in New
York where the United Nations
is based but remains immune
from the law. Inner City Press
is on the case.
This case is US
v. Girgis, 22-cr-6
(Lehrburger)
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