An anonymous former employee of Breitbart alleges that the site broke federal law via acting as an illegal foreign agent.

The allegations center around the identity of the owner of the building in which Breitbart has caught its big break, known colloquially as The Embassy.

Although for Breitbart to occupy the building is a violation of local zoning ordinances, that’s not the biggest problem here.

The owner of the building housing Breitbart is an obscure Egyptian politician named Moustafa El-Gindy, and the complaint against Breitbart which has been filed with the Department of Justice alleges that Breitbart spread illegal propaganda on El-Gindy’s behalf in exchange for exceptionally low rent. The propaganda includes both favorable coverage of El-Gindy and highly unfavorable coverage of his political opponents, who took over Egypt in the Arab Spring-associated uprising a number of years ago.

It’s definitely highly ironic that a site known for aligning itself with islamophobic bigots has been revealed to allegedly have gotten an illegal financial kickback from their activities.

Individuals or interests operating in the United States on behalf of a foreign interest are required to register under the “Foreign Agents Registration Act,” which was passed in connection with World War II as an effort to keep Nazi influence out of the country.

Ironically, two other members of Trump’s inner circle have had Foreign Agents Registration Act controversies spring up in recent weeks.

The disgraced, former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn allegedly worked on behalf of the Turkish government in the United States without proper registration while working for Trump, and Monica Crowley was originally on her way to a role in the Trump administration before it was revealed that she’d plagiarized extensively throughout her body of work, has recently registered to do work for a pro-Russian, Ukrainian oligarch as a foreign agent.

El-Gindy has claimed that the leasing of his Washington, D.C., property was handled entirely by a real estate agent and that he didn’t have any contact with his tenants, Breitbart.

He told Egyptian media:

‘When [the revolution] happened, as we all know, tourism was hit hard, so I had to start renting out the property. A real-estate agent has been taking care of its rental and I am not usually aware of who it is rented to. I am just a landlord.’

However, as The Daily Beast notes, El-Gindy isn’t actually all that ignorant of Breitbart. He has reportedly granted interviews to the so-called news website on a number of occasions.

As the complaint against Breitbart as an entity and former Breitbart head Steve Bannon as a person received by the Department of Justice alleges:

‘It appears [Breitbart] has been disseminating what FARA [the Foreign Agent Registration Act] would regard as propaganda on behalf of a foreign principal for financial benefit, and not merely as a financially unconnected news source.’

The anonymous complaint was sent to the Department of Justice from “a FedEx Office franchise in Arlington, Virginia, on July 2, 2015.” Two individuals with direct knowledge of the situation name a former Breitbart writer as behind the complaint.

This issue is one of many that underlined the decision of the Standing Committee of the Senate Press Gallery from earlier this week to deny Breitbart’s requests for permanent D.C. press credentials.

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