A top Biden administration official in the Defense Department has been busted for running a dogfighting ring for more than two decades.
The New York Post reported Tuesday that federal prosecutors charged Frederick Douglass Moorefield Jr., the Pentagon’s deputy chief information officer for command, control, and communications, with “promoting and furthering (an) animal fighting venture.”
Moorefield’s business was called “Geehad Kennels,” a play on the word “jihad.” Investigators said they believe he used jumper cables to execute canines who lost in the battles.
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The Post noted that Moorefield was under suspicion since 2018 when Maryland animal control officials discovered the bodies of two dogs wrapped in plastic bags that contained mail with Moorefield’s name on it.
“The distribution and number of recent and healed dog bite wounds (scars) present on both dogs was consistent with organized dogfighting,” an FBI agent wrote in an affidavit in the case. “Based on this information, I believe that Moorefield sponsored each of these dogs in a dogfight.”
Breitbart News reported that Moorefield’s longtime friend, Mario Flythe, admitted to participating in the dogfighting operation.
Breitbart also noted that Moorefield has reportedly been involved in the dogfighting operation since at least 2002. Both suspects were reportedly “experimenting with different types of performance-enhancing drugs to improve [their] chances of winning dogfights.”
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Lt. Commander Tim Gorman, a Pentagon spokesman, said Moorefield was “no longer in the workplace,” but it was unclear if that meant he had been suspended, fired, or allowed to retire.
Breitbart further reported that the dogfighting ring called itself the “DMV Board,” and that its members exchanged messages about training fighting dogs, videos, details of fights, betting on the fights, and comparing methods to kill dogs that lost.
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