Onier Llopiz
Role at the time: Lawyer representing Elijah Schaffer in the Wilkins defamation case
Response to this claim
Kyle Seraphin said on his podcast on August 22, 2025 that FBI Director Kash Patel "has had his own little 'honeypot' issue" and that Patel's girlfriend, Alexis Wilkins, is "a former Mossad agent in what is like the equivalent of their NSA," according to the transcript quoted in Wilkins's complaint and in the court's order denying his motion to dismiss.
“It’s perfectly fine to raise questions and Elijah [Schaeffer] didn’t even do that.”
Blumenthal's signed article criticizes the defamation litigation and quotes Schaffer's lawyer. It calls the intelligence theory unsubstantiated. The article spells the lawyer's first name Oneir; his firm and Florida Bar identify him as Onier Llopiz.
Archived copy (opens in a new tab)Why we used this label
The reference point is the proposition that Alexis Wilkins is, or was, a foreign intelligence agent, specifically an Israeli or Mossad "honeypot" in a relationship with Kash Patel to compromise him. Llopiz says Schaffer's post did not even raise questions about Wilkins, which disputes reading it as an accusation, so we used Challenged the characterization. The closest competing label is Mixed or conditional, because he also says skepticism about the director's relationships is warranted. It loses because he does not hint that the proposition is true. The protected-opinion argument is The Grayzone's paraphrase, not his quoted words. Evidence level: quotes reported by The Grayzone.