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The arrest of a Queens man on gun charges two years ago may have led federal authorities to the discovery of a Satanic pedophile extortion cult that targets minors over the internet.
Investigators uncovered the heinous group — 764 — while probing disturbing social media posts made by Angel Almeida, 23, who was busted in Nov. 2021 and charged with being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm, according to court documents and a report published Thursday.
A post on another one of Almeida’s alleged Instagram profiles showed him posing with ammunition strapped to his chest, in front of a black flag bearing the logo of the Order of Nine Angels (O9A), which prosecutors described as “a worldwide Satanist…group which embraces elements of neo-Nazism and white supremacy.”
When authorities searched Almeida’s home, they allegedly found hundreds of files containing child sex abuse material on four different devices — as well as books related to O9A and Satanism, according to court documents.
They also found a “blood covenant,” or an O9A drawing of a hooded figure surrounded by the group’s symbols and smeared with what appears to be blood, the filings state.
On Sept. 12, the FBI issued a public notice about 764, a “violent online groups” that is “deliberately targeting minor victims on publicly available messaging platforms to extort them into recording or livestreaming acts of self-harm and producing child sexual abuse material.”
Sources told The Guardian the cult is believed to be an off-shoot of O9A — and that law enforcement discovered the group through their investigation in Almeida’s case.
Rep. Grace Meng (D-NY) once declared a "President An Quanzhong Day" in her congressional district to honor the China-born businessman's work for his Chinese hometown association in New York—while her campaign took thousands of dollars in donations from An.
Today An and his daughter—a green card holder and a U.S. citizen, respectively, at the time of their arrest—are among seven people facing charges of acting as foreign agents for allegedly colluding with Chinese officials to try to force a U.S. resident back to China against his will.
Another prolific donor to New York politicians was U.S. citizen Lu Jianwang, one of two men arrested for allegedly hosting a clandestine Chinese police station in Manhattan. Meng, New York City Mayor Eric Adams, and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul all got thousands of dollars in donations from Lu and his brother.
A months-long Newsweek investigation has uncovered donations to leading New York politicians by dozens of U.S.-based community groups and their leaders with close ties to the United Front Work Department or to a wider "united front system" operated globally by the Chinese Communist Party. The department reports directly to the Central Committee of the CCP. The donations stretch back decades; recipients have included former New York senator and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton—and Meng's campaigns received over $270,000 from such groups and their leaders since 2006, Newsweek's review shows.
The groups offer community services and business opportunities for members. But critics say the CCP uses the sprawling system to interfere in host countries by building ties with and influencing local politicians, acting as a network to carry out "transnational repression" of the party's opponents globally, and a conduit for espionage by China's security services.
None of the associations mentioned in this report returned Newsweek's requests for comment.
In the past 10 years, the money spent by the groups and the senior figures in them—who often openly engaged in influence work on behalf of the Communist Party—exceeded at least $600,000, and was accepted by candidates representing New York in the U.S. Congress or running for political office in New York's City Hall, its boroughs, state Assembly and Senate, as well as candidates for district attorney, attorney general, judges and the governor's office.
originally posted by: Bwarefalsprofits
a reply to: Mike Stivic
The real issue stems from the fact that people do not like their beliefs to be challenged. If someone comes in, pushes against current beliefs...rocks the boat so to speak... obviously, that makes waves.
If you are confident in your beliefs then having them challenged should be no problem. Don't you think that's true?