特朗普政府针对百万富翁左翼捐赠者詹姆斯·“费吉”·钱伯斯的引渡案，在两名被传唤至联邦大陪审团的证人于上周宣布拒绝作证后，似乎遇到了障碍。钱伯斯自7月以来一直被关押在西班牙。
The Trump administration’s extradition case against millionaire left-wing donor James “Fergie” Chambers, detained in Spain since July, ran into an apparent hurdle when two witnesses called before a federal grand jury announced their intention last week to refuse to testify.
多位熟悉该案的观察人士表示，该大陪审团很可能与引渡工作有关。
Several observers familiar with the case said the grand jury is likely related to the extradition effort.
据钱伯斯的西班牙律师称，美国是基于刑事指控书而非起诉书寻求引渡钱伯斯，因此大陪审团证人拒绝作证显得更为重要。这份由一名FBI特工签署的刑事宣誓书，包含三项与其支持亲巴勒斯坦事业有关的指控。
The refusal of the grand jury witnesses to testify takes on added importance because the U.S. is pursuing Chambers’s extradition based on a criminal complaint, not an indictment, according to his Spanish lawyers. The criminal affidavit, signed by a single FBI agent, includes three charges related to his support for pro-Palestine causes.
引渡案的批评者表示，这一区别凸显了该案完全依赖一名特工的指控书——该指控书仍处于保密状态——而非大陪审团调查来决定国家是否有足够证据起诉钱伯斯。
The distinction, critics of the extradition case say, highlights how the case is hung on one agent’s complaint, which remains under seal, rather than a grand jury investigation to determine if the state had sufficient evidence to indict Chambers.
“这份指控书不仅模糊薄弱，而且不正常，”钱伯斯在西班牙的律师之一艾托尔·马丁内斯说。“在20年的执业生涯中，我从未见过美国基于刑事指控书提出引渡请求。”
“The complaint is not only vague and weak, it’s not normal,” said Aitor Martínez, one of Chambers’s Spain-based lawyers. “In 20 years of practice, I’ve never seen a U.S. extradition request based on a criminal complaint.”
马丁内斯指出，《拦截者》审阅的一份国际逮捕令中所含指控书摘要里的一段陈述，该陈述是写给西班牙当局的，内容称：“如果批准钱伯斯引渡美国，将向联邦大陪审团寻求另一份称为起诉书的指控文件。”
Martínez pointed to a statement from a summary of the complaint contained in an international arrest order reviewed by The Intercept and directed at Spanish authorities that says, “If Chambers’ extradition to the US is granted, another charging document called an indictment will be sought from a federal grand jury.”
“在20年的执业生涯中，我从未见过美国基于刑事指控书提出引渡请求。”
“In 20 years of practice, I’ve never seen a U.S. extradition request based on a criminal complaint.”
美国全国律师协会执行主任哈维尔·德·哈农并未直接参与钱伯斯案件，他表示：“在没有起诉书的情况下寻求引渡，是本末倒置。”
Xavier de Janon, the executive director of the U.S.-based National Lawyers Guild and who is not working directly on the Chambers case, said, “Seeking an extradition without there being an indictment puts the cart before the horse.”
德·哈农说：“如果他在刑事指控书下被引渡，甚至无法充分对指控提出抗辩，因为他尚未被起诉。”国务院将问题转交司法部，后者拒绝置评。
“If he is extradited under a criminal complaint,” said de Janon, “he can’t even fully challenge the charges, because he hasn’t been indicted.”The State Department referred questions to the Department of Justice, which declined to comment.
根据逮捕令中包含的起诉摘要，针对钱伯斯引渡请求的三项指控中有两项——暴乱罪和煽动暴乱罪——与指控他帮助资助2023年底在新罕布什尔州梅里马克举行的一场针对以色列武器制造商的抗议活动有关。摘要称，钱伯斯为示威者提供资金，用于购买烟雾弹等物资，并帮助支付抗议者的法律费用。
Two of the three charges underpinning the extradition request against Chambers — riot and incitement to riot — are related to allegations that he helped fund a late-2023 protest in Merrimack, New Hampshire, against an Israeli weapons manufacturer, according to the summary of the complaint contained in the arrest order. The summary says Chambers provided funds for demonstrators used to purchase materials such as smoke bombs and to help cover protesters’ legal fees.
第三项指控是国际洗钱罪，涉及他在2024年转入突尼斯银行账户的700多万美元，当时他居住在突尼斯。根据国际逮捕令，特朗普政府称这笔资金被用于资助哈马斯，后者是美国认定的恐怖组织。逮捕令并未指控他犯有为恐怖主义提供物质支持罪。
The third charge is international money laundering related to more than $7 million he transferred to bank accounts in Tunisia, where he was living in 2024. The Trump administration, according to the international arrest order, says the money was used to fund Hamas, which is a proscribed terror group in the U.S. The order does not say he is charged with material support for terrorism.
钱伯斯的家人和支持者，以及突尼斯足球俱乐部“非洲俱乐部”的多位代表表示，这笔钱用于偿还俱乐部债务及训练场等相关支出。该俱乐部的球迷群体长期支持巴勒斯坦人。大陪审团拒绝配合两名参加了2023年针对以色列武器制造商“Elbit Systems”工厂抗议活动的女性，最近宣布不配合11月4日大陪审团听证会，她们已被传唤作为证人出席。
Chambers’s family and supporters and multiple representatives of Club Africain, a Tunisian soccer club, have said the money was used to pay the club’s debts and related expenditures such as training grounds. The club’s fan base has long supported Palestinians. Grand Jury Refusal Two women who participated in the 2023 protest against a factory operated by the Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems recently announced their intentions not to cooperate with a November 4 grand jury hearing where they have been summoned as witnesses.
“如果她们现在被传唤，这表明大陪审团似乎与钱伯斯的案件有关，”他的律师马丁内斯说。“这看起来像是针对他的一次探底式调查。”
“If they are being summoned now, this suggests that the grand jury seems to be linked to Chambers’s case,” said Martínez, his lawyer. “It seems like a fishing expedition against him.”
这两名女性的律师基拉·凯利表示：“背景线索表明这与弗吉有关。”
Kira Kelley, an attorney for the two women, said, “Context clues suggest this is about Fergie.”
如果这两人拒绝在新罕布什尔州联邦大陪审团面前回答联邦检察官的提问，她们可能面临因藐视法庭而入狱的风险。
If the pair don’t answer questions from a federal prosector before the New Hampshire federal grand jury, they could risk a possible jail sentence for contempt.
尽管如此，这两名女性——布里奇特·谢尔加利斯和索菲·罗斯——周四向《灰地带》发表声明，宣布她们打算拒绝作证。在同一天接受《拦截线》采访时，这两名女性讲述了因抗议活动被调查一年、并面临可能判处数十年监禁的重罪指控威胁的经历。
Nonetheless, the two women — Bridget Shergalis and Sophie Ross — shared a statement with The Grayzone Thursday announcing their intention to refuse to testify. In an interview on the same day with The Intercept, the women recounted being under investigation for a year over the protest and being threatened with felony charges that carried potential sentences of decades in prison.
谢尔加利斯和罗斯表示，她们拒绝了多项合作换取从轻处理的提议。到这场磨难结束时，她们被判犯有轻罪，获刑60天监禁。
Shergalis and Ross said they turned down several deals for their cooperation. By the end of the ordeal, they were found guilty of misdemeanor offenses and received 60-day jail sentences .
罗斯说，基于那次经历，两人决定拒绝接受传票、出席大陪审团作证。“对我们俩来说，这是一个简单的决定，”罗斯说。
Following that experience, said Ross, the pair decided to reject the subpoena to testify before a grand jury. “It was an easy decision for both of us,” Ross said.
谢尔加利斯和罗斯定于周三出庭作证，届时她们计划主张第五修正案权利，拒绝回答联邦检察官的任何问题。
Shergalis and Ross are slated to testify on Wednesday, at which time they plan to assert their Fifth Amendment rights and decline to answer any questions from the federal prosecutor.
据凯利称，届时可能会安排法官举行听证会，以决定是否以民事蔑视法庭罪拘留谢尔加利斯和罗斯，这可能导致最长18个月监禁。
At that point, a hearing before a judge may be scheduled, to determine whether to hold Shergalis and Ross in civil contempt, which could result in up to 18 months of prison, according to Kelley.
马尔蒂内斯曾参与维基解密创始人朱利安·阿桑奇的辩护团队工作，他说，谢尔加利斯和罗斯的决定让人想起切尔西·曼宁，后者曾两次拒绝在大陪审团面前作证指控阿桑奇，并两次因此入狱服刑。“就像多年后的切尔西·曼宁，”他说。
Martínez, who also worked on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s defense team, said the decision by Shergalis and Ross recalled that of Chelsea Manning, who twice refused to testify against Assange before a grand jury, serving time in prison in both instances . “It’s like Chelsea Manning, years later,” he said.
谢尔加利斯和罗斯决定公开她们的计划，是在与最近成立的“NSPM-7被告人联盟”组织者交谈后做出的。这是一个全国性项目，旨在支持因特朗普政府去年发布的《国家安全总统备忘录-7》而将异见定罪的努力而成为目标的抗议者。该文件是将左翼行动主义描绘成恐怖主义的更广泛努力的一部分，指示联邦调查局追查与“反法西斯主义”相关的“暴力和恐怖活动”。
Shergalis and Ross decided to go public with their plans after speaking with organizers behind the recently-launched NSPM-7 Defendants Union , a nationwide project for protesters targeted by the Trump administration’s efforts to criminalize dissent as laid out in last year’s National Security Presidential Memorandum-7 . The document, part of a broader effort to paint left-wing activism as terrorism , directs the FBI to go after “violent and terroristic activities” associated with “anti-fascism.”
NSPM-7被告联盟的核心在于签署一份承诺书，承诺遵循诸如不与执法部门合作、在可能的情况下采取集体法律策略、并公开宣布这些策略等做法——这一目标与联邦起诉的保密性背道而驰。
The NSPM-7 Defendants Union is centered around signing a pledge to follow practices such as not cooperating with law enforcement, adopting collective legal strategy when possible, and publicly announcing those strategies — a goal that runs against the secrecy surrounding federal indictments.
谢尔加利斯表示，虽然保密性在大陪审团阶段有利于检方，“但对我们所有人来说，尽可能透明是有益的。”
While secrecy benefits prosecutors before a grand jury, said Shergalis, “It’s good for all of us to be as transparent as possible.”
“我们看到NSPM-7导致了前所未有的针对抗议者的起诉水平。”
“We’re seeing NSPM-7 result in unprecedented levels of prosecution against protesters.”
谢尔加利斯、罗斯和钱伯斯均已签署该承诺书，而大陪审团的决定似乎成为了该联盟理念的首个公开测试案例。
Shergalis, Ross, and Chambers have each signed the pledge, and the grand jury decision appears to be the first public test case of the union’s ideas.
全国律师协会的德雅农表示：“我们应该为全国各地的人们决定大胆地向联邦政府及其NSPM-7政策主张自己的法律权利而欢呼。”“我们看到NSPM-7导致了前所未有的针对抗议者的起诉水平。”“这是恶意行为”与此同时，钱伯斯仍被关押在马德里，西班牙法院正在决定是否批准美国的引渡请求。
“We should celebrate people across the country deciding to assert their legal rights boldly against the federal government and its NSPM-7 policy,” said de Janon, of the National Lawyers Guild. “We’re seeing NSPM-7 result in unprecedented levels of prosecution against protesters.”“This Is Bad Faith”Meanwhile, Chambers remains imprisoned in Madrid, as the Spanish courts decide whether to grant the U.S. extradition request or not.
钱伯斯已在西班牙申请庇护，如果申请获批，他将获释，且美国的引渡请求将被拒绝。在庇护案件审理结束前，他不能被引渡。
Chambers has applied for asylum in Spain and, if his application is granted, he would be released and the U.S. extradition request would be denied. He cannot be extradited until the asylum case runs its course.
这位自称共产主义者和反帝国主义者的钱伯斯，是科克斯家族的继承人，该家族拥有总部位于亚特兰大的电信巨头科克斯企业。作为一项和解协议的一部分，当时他的家庭与他断绝关系，他在2023年中期将股票卖回给家族，价值约2.5亿美元。
A self-described communist and anti-imperialist, Chambers is heir of the Cox family, owners of Atlanta-based telecom giant Cox Enterprises. As part of a settlement in which his family severed ties with him at the time, he sold stock back to them in mid-2023 worth about $250 million .
据他的伴侣、演员兼活动家斯特拉·施纳贝尔称，自那以后，他一直在20个国家资助约100个人道主义和左翼项目，包括被占加沙地带的援助项目。“我相信这是针对亲巴勒斯坦抗议活动的迫害的一部分。”
Since then, he has been funding an estimated 100 humanitarian and left-wing projects in 20 countries, according to his partner, actress and activist Stella Schnabel, including aid projects in the Occupied Gaza Strip. “I believe this is part of the persecution against pro-Palestine protest.”
关于特朗普政府的案件，西班牙律师马丁内斯强调，针对钱伯斯的刑事起诉书提出了与抗议以色列最大军火制造商埃尔比特系统公司在新罕布什尔州工厂有关的指控，却漏掉了联邦起诉工作最终导致谢尔加利斯、罗斯和其他活动人士仅被判处轻罪定罪的情况。
As for the Trump administration’s case, Martínez, the Spanish attorney, underscored how the criminal complaint against Chambers raises charges related to the protest against the New Hampshire factory for Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest arms manufacturer, but leaves out how federal prosecution efforts ended up with minor convictions for Shergalis, Ross, and other activists.
“实施这些行为的人受到了轻判，”他说。“他们隐瞒了这一点。这是恶意的。”
“The people who carried out the acts received a minor sentence,” he said. “They leave this out. This is bad faith.”
“为什么不把这告诉西班牙？”他说。“西班牙很可能不会因为只判了60天监禁的行为而引渡某人。”
“Why don’t they tell this to Spain?” he said. “It’s likely that Spain won’t turn someone over based on actions that got 60-day sentences.”
马丁内斯表示，钱伯斯反对以色列在加沙的种族灭绝才是该案件背后的真正原因。“我认为这是针对亲巴勒斯坦抗议活动迫害的一部分。美国甚至因此制裁了国际刑事法院。”关于钱伯斯的案件，马丁内斯说，“这是又一次打击。”
Martínez said Chambers’s opposition to the Israeli genocide in Gaza is the real reason behind the case. “I believe this is part of the persecution against pro-Palestine protest. The U.S. has even sanctioned the International Criminal Court because of this.”Of Chambers’s case, Martínez said, “This is one more attack.”
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