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DOJ charges foreign nationals working at NIH with smuggling monkeypox into US, lying about it
Just The News ^ | June 02, 2026 | Misty Severi

Posted on 06/03/2026 5:27:44 AM PDT by Red Badger

The Justice Department announced Tuesday that two foreign researchers with the National Institutes of Health have been charged with conspiracy to smuggle monkeypox into the United States and giving false statements to federal law enforcement.

The department accused 53-year-old Vincent Munster, a citizen of the Netherlands, and 38-year-old Claude Kwe, a citizen of Cameroon, of allegedly lying to Customs and Border Protection officials at an airport in Detroit about the contents of a large black plastic case they carried with them from a trip to the Republic of Congo in January, where an outbreak of monkeypox was occurring.

The two men, who worked at the NIH's Rocky Mountain Laboratory in Montana, claimed the case contained diagnostics and testing equipment, but a subsequent investigation by CBP and the FBI revealed it contained 113 vials in Styrofoam coolers. The FBI has tested 20 of the vials so far and 17 have contained deactivated monkeypox virus.

“These NIH experts apparently broke our laws by smuggling viral pathogens on a packed commercial airplane from an outbreak in the Republic of Congo," United States Attorney Jerome Gorgon said in a statement. "Let that sink in."

Both men worked for the Virus Ecology Section of the NIH's Rocky Mountain Laboratory, where they focused on “emerging viral pathogens” and how those pathogens “cross the species barrier," according to the DOJ.

Both men face up to five years in prison if convicted.

Misty Severi is a news reporter for Just The News. You can follow her on X for more coverage.


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1 posted on 06/03/2026 5:27:44 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger
If only five years, make it five years in the worst Federal prison there is.

After the fair trial, mind you.

2 posted on 06/03/2026 5:33:06 AM PDT by OKSooner (You vill eat ze bogs. Undt you vill LIKE IT!!!)
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To: Red Badger

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4382127/posts


3 posted on 06/03/2026 5:36:03 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: Red Badger

This should be a capital crime.

Also, why is it not possible for tax-funded organizations to find qualified American citizens? Another case of our money be taken from us and then used to fund our own destruction.


4 posted on 06/03/2026 5:36:48 AM PDT by drwoof
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To: Red Badger

Are ya’ll ready for our new sign on to Bill and Melinda’s GAVI?

Nothing ever changes.

https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2026-06-02/us-to-re-engage-with-gavi-vaccine-alliance-amid-ebola-outbreak-rubio-says


5 posted on 06/03/2026 5:40:03 AM PDT by dforest
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To: Red Badger
‘We need rare pathogens released in the United States because we need to kill Americans and force taxpayers to pay for vaccine creation for the world, with the vaccines provided cheaply to other countries.’

Signed,
Anthony Fauci and Bill and Melinda Gates.

6 posted on 06/03/2026 5:45:45 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Red Badger

So many questions unanswered...


7 posted on 06/03/2026 5:52:28 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 "/!i!! &@$%&*(@ -')
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To: Red Badger

Foreign national, illegal alien RAT “neighbors” aren’t going to be happy until they kill every American. Especially “da white gringo ones.”


8 posted on 06/03/2026 6:39:26 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Illegal Alien Border Invaders are the broken windows of America. Influencers of violence and crime.)
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To: Red Badger

I bet they hid it in their anus.


9 posted on 06/03/2026 7:10:43 AM PDT by Farmerbob
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To: Farmerbob

In their prison suitcases


10 posted on 06/03/2026 7:56:04 AM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, Fruit flies like a banana)
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To: drwoof

They are everywhere. First dibs on jobs, police, in elected office and now scientists and look at the damage they have done.


11 posted on 06/03/2026 7:57:05 AM PDT by packrat35 (“When discourse ends, violence begins.” – Charlie Kirk, and they killed him anyway)
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To: Red Badger

That is in line with the queers back in the ‘70s who donated blood trying to infect straights with AIDS, because then real research would be done on the disease. Infect America, and reap the benefits.


12 posted on 06/03/2026 9:58:31 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Finish the damned WALL! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH! )
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To: OKSooner

prison in the Congo would be better, no federal prison is bad, in the hierarchy of confinement, city jails are the bottom.


13 posted on 06/03/2026 10:11:34 AM PDT by bdfromlv (Leavenworth hard time)
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To: Red Badger

Srednik has direct personal knowledge of researchers at NIH with absolutely no ethical compass. Pathetic. Many geniuses in a specific discipline are idiots overall. It goes with super-specialization detached from responsibility for others.


14 posted on 06/03/2026 10:27:28 AM PDT by Srednik (Polyglot. Overeducated. Redeemed by Christ. Anticommunist from the womb.)
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To: Red Badger

The two smugglers. Shoot them.

15 posted on 06/03/2026 10:33:01 AM PDT by OldHarbor
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To: Srednik

Not just NIH, EVERYWHERE!........


16 posted on 06/03/2026 10:36:22 AM PDT by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
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17 posted on 06/03/2026 2:34:52 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens. --DJT)
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