The Justice Department and FBI have a new communist financier in their crosshairs for alleged financial crimes: James "Fergie" Cox Chambers Jr., the estranged bad-boy heir to the Cox cable empire.On Friday, Spanish police detained Chambers on the luxury island of Ibiza, in response to an international arrest warrant, according to sources.Chambers is allegedly wanted for money laundering and providing support to Hamas, following years of financing anti-Israel and anti-West organizations and protests.
The transnational network he helped fund and support is kicking in to cast him as a victim of the Trump administration's "fascism," while critics are cheering the arrest as long overdue.A spokesman for Spain's Balearic Islands police branch, which includes Ibiza in its jurisdiction, told Fox News Digital that a U.S.citizen was arrested on charges tied to an international arrest warrant Friday under an international arrest warrant seeking his extradition to the United States.
The spokesman did not confirm the identity of the citizen, but sources told Fox News Digital that the individual is Chambers.Fergie Chambers poses for pictures in Tunis, Tunisia, on Feb.8, 2024.
(Chedly Ben Ibrahim/NurPhoto)FBI SAYS NEW MISSION CENTER HAS IDENTIFIED 'NEFARIOUS' PROTEST FUNDING AND SUBJECTSThe police spokesman added that the individual is being held at the central jail in Ibiza pending a judicial decision that will be conducted by videoconference.Supporters now plan a "Free Fergie Chambers" protest on Tuesday at 7 p.m.
outside the prison in Ibiza, demonstrating against "DEL FASCISMO DE TRUMP," or the "TRUMP'S FASCISM IN PERSECUTING DEFENDERS OF THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE."A spokesperson for the FBI declined to comment.Chambers and his representatives couldn't be reached for comment.A convert to Islam, Chambers represents the fusion of socialist and communist activists with Islamist interests that seek the destruction of the West, free enterprise and the state of Israel and the rise o...