From Tom Fitton <[email protected]>
Subject Illegal Biolabs in California
Date September 15, 2023 11:53 PM
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Biden Impeachment Inquiry



[WEEKLY UPDATE]

ILLEGAL BIOLABS IN CALIFORNIA

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HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS IN CALIFORNIA LABS OWNED BY CHINESE NATIONALS

Americans should know that dangerous biological research doesn’t
just occur in Wuhan. It is happening in the United States.

We received 29 pages
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of
records through the California Public Records Act confirming that
illicit labs owned by Chinese nationals housed biologicals in
hazardous and non-compliant conditions, multiple infectious agents,
and starving and dead mice. Our investigators also uncovered court
documents which detail the deplorable conditions at the lab (which
conducted “COVID” research), including photos of dead mice.

The documents were produced by the Fresno County Department of Public
Health (FCDPH) in response to a request for:

> Records and / or communications maintained by the Fresno County
> Public Health Department, including emails, email chains, email
> attachments, text messages, meeting minutes, interviews, voice
> recordings, video recordings, photographs, correspondence,
> statements, letters, memoranda, reports, briefings, affidavits,
> inspections, presentations, notes, or other form of record,
> regarding Prestige BioTech and Universal Meditech Inc.

Prestige Biotech reportedly
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runs
Universal Meditech, Inc.

The records show that, on May 31, 2023, Dr. Rais Vohra
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then-interim health officer for the Fresno County Department of Public
Health, had issued an order
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to
Prestige to close its operations in Reedley, CA, and clean up
dangerous materials at the site:

> This Order is issued as a result of the City of Reedley’s attempts
> at gathering authorized representative contact information, repeated
> requests of complete lists of biologicals present, and an inspection
> pursuant to Health Officer Order dated April 21, 2023, which
> revealed biologicals in hazardous and non-compliant conditions, the
> presence of multiple infectious agents and pursuant to Title 17
> California Code of Regulations Section 2500, and multiple City of
> Reedley building and fire code violations, including but not limited
> to, failing refrigeration, and documented out of compliance
> electrical additions.

The records include an August 2023 PowerPoint presentation titled
“Healthy Fresno County, Better Together, Reedley Lab Update
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written by Fresno Co. Asst. Dir. Joe Prado
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The presentation
includes a section titled “City of Fresno Chronology of Events,”
which reports:

> August 26, 2020 – Universal MediTech location experienced a
> small fire.
>
> August 31, 2020 – Environmental Health CUPA inspection performed
> at Universal Meditech at 1320 E. Fortune Ave #102 in Fresno.
>
> EH Inspector conducted onsite visit and noted violations: failing to
> prepare and implement a hazardous materials business plan (HMBP) for
> storage of hazmat (ethanol) over state thresholds
>
> Permit was completed and valid from 9-1-2020 through 8-31-2021.
> Inspections are every 3 years from initial inspection,
> unless complaint is received.
>
> October 31, 2022 – FCDPH staff received a complaint from City of
> Fresno Code Enforcement and City Fire Department regarding chemicals
> stored at the Universal MediTech facility in Fresno.
>
> November 1, 2022 – FCDPH staff visited Universal MediTech site
> at 1320 E. Fortune Ave #102 in Fresno. Were not able to
> access facility.
>
> November 3, 2022 – FCDPH staff met City of Fresno Code Enforcement
> officer and property management at facility.
>
> November 8, 2022 – No response from general manager. FCDPH staff
> again visited Universal MediTech site but were again not able to
> access facility.
>
> November 8, 2022 – FCDPH staff received an email after visiting
> facility from Xiao XiaoWang, President/CEO of
> Universal MediTech Inc. regarding status of facility.
>
> November 10, 2022 – Email response to Xiao Xiao Wang regarding
> the hazardous materials storage and transportation requirements.
>
> November 23, 2022 – No response back from operators or
> CEO/President. FCDPH staff visited Universal MediTech facility and
> were again not able to access facility.

The presentation includes a section titled “Reedley Chronology
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which details the investigation of the lab after it relocated to
Reedley, CA:

> December 19, 2022 – City of Reedley Code Enforcement Officer
> contacted FCDPH regarding business found operating at 850 I Street.
>
> December 20, 2022 – Reedley Code Enforcement citing multiple code,
> building, and zoning violations for business, and had concerns
> regarding possible hazardous materials stored at facility.
>
> Emails with the Reedley Code Enforcement, CDPH, and FDA to
> coordinate a response.
>
> Reedley Code Enforcement and FCDPH contacted FBI regarding
> potential public safety risks.
>
> December 20, 2022 – FCDPH contacted FDA and CDPH requesting
> assistance regarding suspicious medical test manufacturing company.
>
> December 21, 2022 – FBI coordinated meeting with State, Federal
> and Local agencies and instructed the agencies to standby until
> conclusion of their investigation.
>
> January 2023 through February 2023 – Ongoing regular
> communication with Federal and State agencies.
>
> February 9, 2023 – FCDPH is informed by DTSC that FBI has given
> State and Local agencies approval to resume civil investigation.
>
> February 9, 2023 – Universal MediTech issues a nationwide recall
> of its COVID-19 test kits.
>
> February 24, 2023 – Multi-agency meeting to coordinate
> investigation of Prestige Biotech.
>
> CDPH Food & Drug Branch to take lead on investigation of medical
> devices.
>
> March 3, 2023 – FCDPH staff met at City of Reedley Fire Department
> with CDPH, DTSC, City of Reedley Police, Fire, Code Enforcement, and
> Building Inspector.
>
> ***
>
> City of Reedley posted Unsafe to Occupy Notice on front door of
> building.
>
> ***
>
> March 16, 2023 – FCDPH staff met with CDPH, DTSC, and City of
> Reedley and briefed on inspection warrant.
>
> Met with Consultant for Prestige Biotech.
>
> CDPH Food & Drug Branch staff went through and embargoed the
> unapproved medical test kits and medical supplies.
>
> ***
>
> March 22, 2023 – FCDPH meets with Health Officer, CAO, and BOS
> member on the Reedley Lab situation.
>
> State and Federal authorities stated that abatement is the
> County’s responsibility
>
> FCDPH emailed Prestige President requesting complete inventory of
> all materials onsite that pose a public safety risk.
>
> Communication and requests for inventory continued through April
> with incomplete and delayed responses from business representative.
>
> ***

> June 15, 2023 – Filed with Superior Court an Abatement Warrant to
> destroy all biologicals.
>
> June 23, 2023 – Judge of the Superior Court signs Abatement
> Warrant.
>
> June 26, 2023 – Abatement warrant issued by Superior Court.
>
> July 5-7, 2023 – Biological materials in approximately 36
> refrigerators/freezers were properly removed and transported for
> destruction by licensed contractor.

***

Under the heading “Next Steps,” the presentation notes that
investigations by the health department, FDA, California Department of
Public Health, the health department’s Food and Drug Branch, and the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency were ongoing.

Our investigators also uncovered court documents that include
an abatement warrant
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Exhibit
2 of the declaration of Code Enforcement Officer Jesalyn Harper
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contains graphic
images
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of
dead mice from the “mouse room” at the Reedley facility:

> Upon entering the mouse room, Code Enforcement and Dr. Hahn observed
> a large amount of mice feces on the floor. It was undeterminable
> if the feces were from wild mice or if the mice in the cages had
> begun to kick up feces out of the cages, but photos of the feces
> were taken regardless because according to Dr. Hahn it was very
> likely a mixture of both.
>
> Dr. Hahn confirmed the mice were in server distress because of
> “barbering” taking place, the high number of visible carcasses
> in the cages, and the lack of “pinkies.” Barbering is a social
> activity with mice consistent with over grooming. When under stress
> the dominant mice will begin to rip the hair and skin off the less
> dominant mice. The lack of pinkies can be related to starvation
> or stress, because Code Enforcement had been trying to provide
> adequate food and water it is believed the cannibalism is due to
> stress.
>
> Dr. Hahn recommended euthanasia due to the animal’s suffering
> and the lack of ability to provide adequate care for the animals.

In November 2022, we uncovered the Defense Department funding anthrax
laboratory
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activities
in Ukraine. The records show over $11 million in funding for the
Ukraine biolabs program in 2019.

In June 2022, we uncovered records
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from the
National Institutes of Health (NIH) revealing over two dozen cases
where research involving recombinant or synthetic nucleic acid (r/sNA)
molecules was conducted in America without proper approval and in
violation of NIH guidelines.

In April 2022, we received records and communications from the Federal
Select Agent Program (FSAP) that revealed safety lapses
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and
violations at U.S. biosafety laboratories that conduct research on
dangerous agents and toxins.



BREAKING: IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY INTO PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy initiated an impeachment inquiry into
President Joe Biden this week – a necessary step for
accountability and justice. The American people have a right to know
whether their president is a crook.

It is well past time for the House to use its full constitutional
authority to investigate the catalog of credible allegations of
corruption that crosses international borders – from Ukraine to
Russia and China.

These Biden corruption issues have created a national security crisis,
led to a border invasion, thoroughly corrupted the Justice Department
and other federal agencies, and have resulted in wildly abusive
efforts to jail former President Trump and other innocents.

This new impeachment inquiry is necessary but not sufficient.
Impeachment must be accompanied with a serious effort to defund abuse
by Biden’s agencies, and Congress must add oversight to curtail
weaponized government.

In the meantime, Judicial Watch will continue its independent
investigations and lawsuits into the Biden corruption issues.

We have at least 10 federal lawsuits focused on Biden family
corruption.

We are pursuing a lawsuit
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for
information regarding the gun owned by Hunter Biden that reportedly
was thrown in a trash can behind a Delaware grocery store.

In June 2023, we sued
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the CIA
for all communications of the spy agency’s Prepublication
Classification Review Board (PCRB) regarding an October 19, 2020,
email request to review and “clear” a letter signed by 51 former
intelligence community officials characterizing the Hunter Biden
laptop story as having “all the earmarks of a Russian disinformation
campaign.”

In July, we sued the DOJ for records from the Office of the Attorney
General and Office of the Deputy Attorney General regarding the
Internal Revenue Service investigation of Hunter Biden.

In June 2023, we filed a lawsuit
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against the
Department of Justice for a copy of the FBI FD-1023 form that
describes “an alleged criminal scheme involving then-Vice President
Biden and a foreign national relating to the exchange of money for
policy decisions.” Judicial Watch also asked for communications
about the FD-1023.

In May 2023, we filed a FOIA lawsuit
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against
the National Archives for Biden family records and communications
regarding travel and finance transactions, as well as communications
between the Bidens and several known business associates.

On October 14, 2022, we sued
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the DOJ
for all records in the possession of FBI Supervisory Intelligence
Analyst Brian Auten regarding an August 6, 2020, briefing provided to
members of the U.S. Senate. Ron Johnson (R-WI) and Chuck Grassley
(R-IA) raised concerns that the briefing was intended to undermine the
senators’ investigation of Hunter Biden.

We filed a lawsuit against the U.S. State Department on April 20,
2022, for messages sent through the SMART
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(State
Messaging and Archive Retrieval Toolkit) system that mention Hunter
Biden.

In December 2020, State Department records
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obtained
through our FOIA lawsuit showed that former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine
Marie “Masha” Yovanovitch had specifically warned in 2017 about
corruption allegations against Burisma Holdings.

And in October 2020, we forced the release of State
Department records
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that
included a briefing checklist of a February 22, 2019, meeting in Kyiv
between then-U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch and Sally
Painter, co-founder and chief operating officer of Blue Star
Strategies, a Democratic lobbying firm which was hired by Burisma
Holdings to combat corruption allegations. At the time of the meeting,
Hunter Biden was serving on the board of directors for Burisma
Holdings.



TO PRIORITIZE EQUITY, DHS ANTI-TERRORISM FUNDS GO TO UNDERSERVED
GROUPS



Give the Biden bureaucrats your tax money, and they are likely
to transfer it to their favorite special interest groups, rather
than for the original purpose, as our _Corruption
Chronicles_ blog reports
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> To ensure “equity is a key priority
>
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a
> Department of Homeland Security (DHS) anti-terrorism program that
> annually doles out millions of dollars to combat violence in local
> communities is awarding a substantial chunk of funds to recipients
> devoted to underserved populations, including a D.C. nonprofit
> dedicated to empowering lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and
> questioning (LGBTQ) youth. Launched in 2020, the initiative is
> called Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention Program (TVTP) and
> it has disbursed $70 million to help local communities develop and
> strengthen the capability to fight violence and terrorism. This year
> the Biden administration is allocating 41% of $20 million in grants
> to recipients devoted to underserved populations, compared to 25%
> last year. Awardees include a Historically Black College and
> University (HBCU) among seven Minority Serving Institutions (MSI),
> an organization dedicated to indigenous/Native American persons, a
> group serving LGBTQIA+, and five that help rural communities.
>
> The focus on minorities (underserved populations) appears to have
> been inspired by last month’s fatal shooting of three black people
> in northeastern Florida. The gunman, who killed himself, was a
> 21-year-old mentally ill man who had previously attempted suicide
> and stopped taking his psychiatric medications. DHS Secretary
> Alejandro Mayorkas used the shooting to support allocating such a
> large amount of funds to underserved populations. “As the
> recent racially-motivated shooting in Jacksonville made painfully
> clear, targeted violence and terrorism can impact any community,
> anywhere,” Mayorkas said, adding that his agency is “committed
> to confronting this threat” by funding programs with communities
> to prevent “such abhorrent targeted acts from occurring.”
>
> Let’s examine where the agency created after 9/11 to prevent
> another terrorist attack is sending
>
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> taxpayer dollars in the name of combatting violence and terrorism. A
> Washington D.C. group called Sexual Minority Youth Assistance
> League
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is getting $530,000 to address the risk
> of violence and negative mental health outcomes faced by LGBTQ+
> youth in Washington D.C. and Montgomery County, Maryland. The
> project will provide in-school support for LGBTQ+ youth, training
> for school staff and youth service providers, resilience programming
> for LGBTQ+ youth ages 6-24, and support for parents and caregivers.
> The D.C. nonprofit claims to empower LGBTQ+ youth in the area
> through leadership and opportunities to build self-confidence,
> develop critical life skills and community engagement. The more than
> half a million dollars will help raise societal awareness by
> employing a “community-level and behavioral health approach,”
> according to the TVTP grant document.
>
> Other notable grants will go to the University of Illinois at
> Chicago School of Medicine which is getting nearly $1 million to
> also raise societal awareness and create youth resilience programs
> by partnering with clinicians, researchers and staff to reduce the
> risk of future violence. The program “will focus on training and
> capacity building around diversity, equity, and inclusion
> practices.” Boise State University will receive $265,000 to
> supplement human rights educationfor kids and teenagers in
> underserved, rural communities by improving individuals’ abilities
> to understand violent content. A Boston organization will receive
> $1,140,067 to mitigate misogynistic, racially, and ethnically
> motivated violent extremism among at-risk students. The University
> of Texas, El Paso is getting nearly $300,000 to create a social
> media campaign that includes multiple cultures and languages to
> counter the rise of online radicalization. The University of
> California, Irvine is receiving almost $700,000 to provide tools and
> training for elementary, high school and college students to
> participate in diverse coalitions that reach national audiences to
> target violence and terrorism. Among the goals is to strengthen
> diverse civic engagement.
>
> Last year $7 million in anti-terrorism grants went to nonprofits,
> local governments, and academic institutions to promote media
> literacy
>
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and
> combat what the Biden administration considers to be
> “disinformation.” Among the recipients was a center founded by
> former President Jimmy Carter to implement a “media literacy
> curriculum” designed to mitigate the harms presented by
> disinformation. The University of Rhode Island got $701,612 to
> combat disinformation, conspiracy theories and propaganda and the
> Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars received $750,000
> to create an “educational digital game” designed to help
> students understand different strategies used to spread
> disinformation and combat it at the institutional level. The Urban
> Rural Action, a group that strives for a “more inclusive
> democracy” across ideological and racial differences, got $769,190
> to create a “Local Prevention Framework.”
>
>

DHS LOSES TRACK OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS IT RELEASES IN U.S., MANY GIVE
FAKE ADDRESS

They’re not even trying any more to secure our southern
border. Our _Corruption Chronicles_ blog details
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the
lack of effort in tracking illegals.

> Not only has illegal immigration exploded under the Biden
> administration, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) fails to
> track migrants it is supposed to monitor after releasing them in the
> U.S. Incredibly, the agency created after 9/11 to prevent another
> terrorist attack is not making much of an effort to find the missing
> foreigners who in thousands of cases were freed despite not
> providing the agency with a valid domestic address or after
> furnishing a bogus location including car dealerships, bus stations,
> restaurants or churches.
>
> Between March 2021 and August 2022, DHS lost track of more than
> 177,000 migrants inside the country, according to a scathing report
>
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issued
> recently by the DHS Office of Inspector General. The watchdog found
> that 80% of addresses provided to the U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) by
> migrants were recorded at least two times and 54,000 were simply
> left blank. More than 780 addresses were used over 20 times and
> seven were recorded by federal officials over 500 times, apparently
> without raising any red flags. Some of the addresses were charities
> or federal government agencies. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
> (ICE) also got trashed in the report for failing to always validate
> migrant addresses prior to releasing them into communities
> throughout the United States.
>
> In all, DHS released more than a million migrant individuals and
> families into the U.S. during the recent 18-month period examined in
> the probe. Investigators stress in the report that it is critical to
> properly track the individuals. “ICE must be able to locate
> migrants to enforce immigration laws, including to arrest or remove
> individuals who are considered potential threats to national
> security,” the IG writes in the report, which has several
> redactions. “The notable percentage of missing, invalid for
> delivery, or duplicate addresses on file means DHS may not be able
> to locate migrants following their release into the United
> States,” the report continues.“As the Department continues to
> apprehend and release tens of thousands of migrants each month,
> valid post-release addresses are essential.”
>
> DHS releases more than 60,000 illegal immigrants into the U.S. every
> month, according to the agency watchdog, and the figure will
> probably grow. “In addition to migrants not providing U.S. release
> addresses, DHS faced several challenges hindering its ability to
> record and validate migrant addresses as required,” the probe
> found. “USBP did not accurately and effectively capture valid
> addresses, in part due to the large number of migrants apprehended,
> as well as its limited coordination with ICE and its limited
> authority to administer compliance with address requirements.” The
> document further explains that “ICE also did not have adequate
> resources to validate and analyze migrants’ post-release
> addresses.” As an example, the IG offers that ICE deportation
> officers at one field office were responsible for 35,000 migrant
> cases post-release, averaging to about three minutes of staff time
> per case annually.
>
> It has been widely reported that when it comes to the famously
> porous southwest border DHS has not done a very good job of
> fulfilling its mission. What many Americans may not know is that, in
> the last few years, the agency has made the problem even worse by
> dispersing hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants throughout
> the U.S. under a Biden administration program that issues migrants a
> Notice to Report (NTR) and trusts them to show up for hearings. Not
> surprisingly, many vanish, and the government tries to keep the
> stats from the public. Last year a Wisconsin senator
> obtained startling DHS figures
>
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> that, during a five-month period, the Biden administration relocated
> 273,396 illegal immigrants throughout the United States and issued
> north of 100,000 NTRs to an ICE field office within 60 days. More
> than 50,000 illegal aliens failed to show up for their hearing with
> federal authorities by ignoring the government issued NTR that has
> become the laughingstock of the nation’s immigration system.

Until next week,

Tom Fitton



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