Bulking up his resume to be in line to be the GOP’s next witness against Hunter Biden, 60-year-old Japanese Yakuza boss Takeshi Ebisawa was indicted by federal prosecutors who say he tried to arrange a deal to ship uranium and plutonium that he believed would be sent to Iran, ABC News reports.
Already in a Brooklyn prison while awaiting trial on drug trafficking charges, Ebisawa told an undercover FBI agent that he had access to nuclear material and could arrange a sale. The agent later told Ebisawa that he had a buyer, an Iranian, telling Ebisawa, “They don’t need it for energy, Iranian government need it for nuclear weapons,” to which Ebisawa replied, “I think so and I hope so.”
According to the superseding indictment, unnamed co-conspirators with Ebisawa told the agents that they could get “2,000 kilograms of Thorium-232 and more than 100 kilograms of uranium” and use a processing center in Burma to turn that into “as much as five tons of nuclear material.”