U.S. media outlets reported that Majed Khalil is suing Fox News, Lou Dobbs, and Sidney Powell for $250 million in a defamation case. Honestly, it couldn’t happen to better people. However, Khalil could not be further from the portrayal of an innocent and completely clean “Venezuelan businessman” his ridiculous lawyer Brown Rudnick is attempting to depict. This site, along with other websites/blogs managed by me, has been inaccessible in Venezuela since around January 2014 due to a spurious “defamation” lawsuit Khalil and his brother Khaled Khalil filed against me. The case ultimately led nowhere, but the Venezuelan telecommunications regulator (CONATEL) has censored traffic to our sites to this day. That is the kind of “businessman” Khalil truly is.
Khalil is a Chavista, thanks to his connections with Diosdado Cabello, Jorge Rodríguez, Luisa Ortega Díaz, Francisco Rangel Gómez, and Antonio José Morales Rodríguez. Go ahead, search these names on Google. While he is not linked to Smartmatic, he is very closely associated with Jorge Rodríguez. In fact, there is a file somewhere in an FBI office containing meticulous evidence of Khalil’s association with Rodríguez. Khalil’s reach within the Chavista criminal underworld is extensive, as this site has been reporting for a while:
“Given how secure the main airport in Venezuela is regarding drug trafficking, at one point, 5.5 tons of cocaine were seized in Mexico. Origin: Maiquetía. Who guards Maiquetía? The Venezuelan National Guard. Are they involved in drug trafficking? Because there is a cartel, called the Cartel de los Soles, formed by high-ranking members of the Venezuelan army. Diosdado Cabello sits right at the top of it. Cabello is the second most powerful Chavista official in Venezuela. He has a few representatives, one of whom is Majed Khalil, who has invested in Turkey.”
With the arrest and extradition of Alex Saab, sources informed this site that Khalil has stepped into the role of PDVSA’s favored unscrupulous trader to violate Treasury sanctions.
It’s not that any of this reaches major U.S. media, although it would be beneficial to challenge Khalil’s abuse in U.S. courts. A good starting point would be to ask Brown Rudnick what due diligence was conducted regarding Khalil’s businesses and funding sources. The preferred argument from lawyers defending “Venezuelan businessmen” like Khalil, in both civil and criminal cases, is lack of jurisdiction. Therefore, the U.S. should be the last jurisdiction open to the frivolous legal activities of Chavista thugs.