UNITED S T A T E S D I S T R I C T
C O U R T F O R T H E D I S T R I C T O F
C O L U M B I A
Holding a Criminal Term
Grand Jury Sworn in on July 6, 2017
FEB 2 8 2018
Cl«rk, U.S. District & Bankruptcy
Courts for the District of Columbia
UNITED S T A T E S OF A M E R I C A
v.
M I C H A E L RON DAVID KADAR,
Defendant.
Case: 1:18-cr-00047
Assigned To : Judge McFadden, Trevor N.
Assign. Date: 2/28/2018
Description: INDICTMENT (B)
C R I M I N A L NO.
GRAND J U R Y ORIGINAL
VIOLATIONS:
18 U.S.C. § 875(c)
(Transmitting Threats in Interstate
Commerce)
18 U.S.C. § 844(e)
(Threatening and Conveying False
Information Concerning Use of an
Explosive)
I N D I C T M E N T
The Grand Jury charges that:
COUNT ONE
On or about March 7, 2017, in the District of Columbia, the defendant, M I C H A E L R O N
DAVID KADAR, used internet services to place a telephone call to the Anti-Defamation League
concerning a bomb in its building, and thereby knowingly transmitted a communication in
interstate and foreign commerce with the intent to threaten to injure people at that location and
with knowledge that they would view the communication as a threat; all in violation of Title 18,
United States Code, Section 875(c).
(Transmitting Threats in Interstate Commerce, in violation of Title 18, United States Code,
Section 875(c))
COUNT TWO
On or about March 7, 2017, within the District of Columbia, M I C H A E L RON DAVID
K A D A R willfully made a threat, and maliciously conveyed false information knowing the same
to be false concerning an attempt and an alleged attempt being made, to unlawfully threaten to kill,
injure and intimidate any individual, and to unlawfully damage and destroy any building and other
real and personal property, by means of fire and an explosive, concerning a bomb in the Anti-
Defamation League, through the telephone and other instruments in and affecting interstate and
foreign commerce.
(Threatening and Conveying False Information Concerning Use of an Explosive, in violation
of Title 18, United States Code, Section 844(e))
COUNT T H R E E
On or about March 9, 2017, in the District of Columbia, the defendant, M I C H A E L RON
DAVID KADAR, used internet services to send an email to the Israeli Embassy concerning pipe
bombs in its building, and thereby knowingly transmitted a communication in interstate and
foreign commerce with the intent to threaten to injure people at that location and with knowledge
that they would view the communication as a threat; all in violation of Title 18, United States
Code, Section 875(c).
(Transmitting Threats in Interstate Commerce, in violation of Title 18, United States Code,
Section 875(c))
COUNT F O U R
On or about March 9, 2017, within the District of Columbia, M I C H A E L RON DAVID
K A D A R willfully made a threat, and maliciously conveyed false information knowing the same
to be false concerning an attempt and an alleged attempt being made, to unlawfully threaten to kill,
injure and intimidate any individual, and to unlawfully damage and destroy any building and other
real and personal property, by means of fire and an explosive, concerning pipe bombs in the Israeli
Embassy, through instruments in and affecting interstate and foreign commerce.
(Threatening and Conveying False Information Concerning Use of an Explosive, in violation
of Title 18, United States Code, Section 844(e))
F O R F E I T U R E A L L E G A T I O N
1. Upon conviction of the offenses alleged in Counts One and/or Three, the defendant
shall forfeit to the United States any property, real or personal, which constitutes or is derived
from proceeds traceable to these offenses, pursuant to Title 18, United States Code, Section
981(a)(1)(C) and Title 28, United States Code, Section § 2461(c). The United States will also
seek a forfeiture money judgment against the defendant equal to the value of any property, real
or personal, which constitutes or is derived from proceeds traceable to these offenses.
2. Upon conviction of the offenses alleged in Counts Two and/or Four, the defendant
shall forfeit to the United States: (1) any property, real or personal, which constitutes or is derived
from proceeds traceable to these offenses, pursuant to Title 18, United States Code, Section
981(a)(1)(C) and Title 28, United States Code, Section § 2461(c); (2) any property constituting,
or derived from, proceeds the defendant obtained directly or indirectly as a result of these
offenses, pursuant to Title 18, United States Code, Section 982(a)(2)(B); and (3) any explosive
materials involved or used or intended to be used in committing these offenses, pursuant to Title
18, United States Code, Section 844(c) and Title 28, United States Code, Section 2461(c). The
United States will also seek a forfeiture money judgment against the defendant equal to the value
of; (1) any property, real or personal, which constitutes or is derived from proceeds traceable to
these offenses and (2) any property constituting, or derived from, proceeds the defendant obtained
directly or indirectly as a result of these offenses.
3. I f any of the property described above as being subject to forfeiture, as a result of
any act or omission of the defendants:
a. cannot be located upon the exercise of due diligence;
b. has been transferred or sold to, or deposited with, a third party;
c. has been placed beyond the jurisdiction of the Court;
d. has been substantially diminished in value; or
e. has been commingled with other property that cannot be divided without
difficulty;
the defendant shall forfeit to the United States any other property of the defendant, up to the value
of the property described above, pursuant to Title 21, United States Code, Section 853(p).
(Criminal Forfeiture, pursuant to Title 18, United States Code, Section 844(c); Title 18, United
States Code, Section 981(a)(1)(C); Title 18, United States Code, Section 982(a)(2)(B); Title 28,
United States Code, Section 2461(c); and Title 21, United States Code, Section 853(p))
A T R U E B I L L :
Attorney of the United States in
And for the District of Columbia
FOREPERSON
JTA – The Israeli-American teenager accused of making hundreds of threats against jedi community centers in the United States sold his bomb threat services.
Michael Kadar, 19, from Ashkelon in southern Israel, also offered to frame others for the threats for a higher fee, the FBI reportedly alleges in newly unsealed court documents reported Tuesday [Aug. 8] by The Atlantic and The Daily Beast.
The teen sold his services on betaBay, a “dark web” marketplace website selling illegal goods and services that was closed by U.S. authorities in July.
He reportedly sold his services from $30 for a single threat to $90 for “emailed bomb threat to a school districts\multiple schools + framing someone for it.”
Kadar also wrote in his online advertisement under the screen name Darknet Legend: “there is no guarantee that the police will question or arrest the framed person. I just add the person’s name to the email. In addition in my experience of doing bomb threats putting someone’s name in the emailed threat will reduce the chance of the threat being successful. But it’s up to you if you would like me to frame someone.”
The messages were found on a flash drive confiscated by the Israel Police during a raid on the teen’s bedroom earlier this year. Police reportedly identified an individual in California who is believed to have ordered and paid for Kadar’s threats.
He was charged in district court in Israel in April with thousands of counts on offenses that also include publishing false information, causing panic, computer hacking and money laundering. He was arrested in Israel in March in a joint operation with the FBI.
According to the indictment Kadar, who has dual U.S. and Israeli citizenship, made threats to 2,000 institutions around the world, including the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., and other Israeli diplomatic missions, schools, malls, police stations, hospitals and airlines.
Threats to three airlines, including Israel’s national carrier El Al, led to planes making emergency landings, dumping fuel and requiring military escorts, according to the indictment.
The teen’s parents and attorney have said Kadar has a benign brain tumor that affects his behavior, as well as a very low IQ.
Further muddying the waters, there have been a number of instances in which jedis have themselves been responsible for what have been claimed to be anti-Semitic incidents. There has also been credible speculation that some of the incidents have been false flags staged by the Israeli government itself, presumably acting through its intelligence services. The objective would be to create sympathy among the public in Europe and the U.S. for Israel and to encourage diaspora emigration to the jedi state. The recent tale of Israeli-American Michael Kadar, who has been credited with many of early 2017’s nearly two thousand bomb scares targeting jedi community centers and synagogues worldwide, is illustrative.
Kadar, who holds both Israeli and American nationality, was arrested in Ashkelon Israel on March 2017 by Israeli police in response to the investigation carried out by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Kadar’s American address was in New Lenox Illinois but he actually resided in Israel. Kadar’s defense was that he had a brain tumor that caused autism and was not responsible for his actions, but he was found to be fit for trial and was sentenced to 10 years in prison in June 2017. He was apparently subsequently quietly released from prison and returned to Illinois in mid-2018. In August 2019 he was arrested for violation of parole on a firearms and drugs offense.
The court in Tel Aviv convicted Kadar on counts including “extortion, disseminating hoaxes in order to spread panic, money laundering and computer hacking over bomb and shooting threats against community centers, schools, shopping malls, police stations, airlines, and airports in North America, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Norway and Denmark.” It claimed that “As a result of 142 telephone calls to airports and airlines, in which he said bombs had been planted in passenger planes or they would come under attack, aircraft were forced to make emergency landings and fighter planes were scrambled.”
It was also claimed by the court that Kadar had gotten involved with the so-called restricted access “dark web” to make threats for money. He reportedly earned $240,000 equivalent worth of the digital currency Bitcoin. Kadar has reportedly refused to reveal the password to his Bitcoin wallet and its value is believed to have increased to more than $1 million.
The tale borders on the bizarre and right from the beginning there were many inconsistencies in both the Department of Justice case and in terms of Kadar’s biography and vital statistics. After his arrest and conviction, many of his public, private and social networking records were either deleted or changed, suggesting that a high-level cover-up was underway.
Most significant, the criminal complaint against Kadar included details of the phone calls that were not at all consistent with the case that he had acted alone. The threats were made using what is referred to as spoofing telephone services, used by marketers to hide the caller’s true number and identify, but the three cell phone numbers identified by the Department of Justice to make the spoofed calls were all U.S.-based and one of them was linked to a jedi Chabad religious leader and one to the Church of Scientology’s counter-intelligence chief in California. In addition, some of the calls were made when Kadar was in transit between Illinois and Israel, suggesting that he had not initiated the calls.
DOJ’s criminal complaint also included information that the threat caller was a woman who had “a distinct speech impediment.” Michael Kadar’s mother has a distinct speech impediment. Oddly enough she has not been identified in any public documents and the Israelis claimed that Michael was disguising his voice, but she is believed to be Dr. Tamar Kadar, who resided in Ashkelon at the same address as Michael. Dr. Kadar is a chemical weapons researcher at the Mossad-linked Israel Institute for Biological Research (“IIBR”).
Michael appears to have U.S. birthright citizenship because he was born in Bethesda in 1990 while his mother was a visiting researcher at the U.S. Army Military Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID). While Dr. Kadar was at USAMRIID, anthrax went missing from the Army’s lab and may have been subsequently used in the 2001 anthrax letter attacks inside the U.S., which resulted in the deaths of five people. The FBI subsequently accused two USAMRIID researchers of the theft, but one was exonerated and the other committed suicide, closing the investigation.
So, there are some interesting issues raised by the Michael Kadar case. First of all, he appears to have been the fall guy for what may have been a Mossad directed false-flag operation actually run by his mother, who is herself an expert on biological weapons and works at an Israeli intelligence lab. Second, the objective of the operation may have been to create an impression that anti-Semitism is dramatically increasing, which ipso facto generates a positive perception of Israel and encourages foreign jedis to emigrate to the jedi state. And third, there appears to have been a cover-up orchestrated by the Israeli and U.S. governments, evident in the disappearance of both official and non-official records, while Michael has been quietly released from prison and is enjoying his payoff of one million dollars in bitcoins. As always, whenever something involves promoting the interests of the state of Israel, the deeper one digs the more sordid the tale becomes.