According to Erik Prince, the founder of the legendary private military company Blackwater, his contacts at the New York City Police Department have informed him that although they’ve been ready to make arrests in connection with the ongoing investigation into Anthony Weiner, the department has found itself dealing with what amounts to obstruction from the Justice Department in their efforts to make it happen.

Prince, who also happens to be a former Navy SEAL, said in an interview with Breitbart News Daily on Sirius XM radio that “the NYPD wanted to do a press conference announcing the warrants and the additional arrests they were making,” but that the cops were having to deal with “huge pushback” from the DOJ in their efforts.

As Prince put it to host Alex Marlow, in the course of investigating Weiner’s “sexting” shenanigans, the NYPD secured a warrant that permitted a search of his laptop, and discovered a mountain of emails that had implications far more ominous than those associated with his prurient activities. As Prince puts it, the volume and scope of various criminal behaviors suggested by the email find took the NYPD aback, and, keeping a copy of the communications for their own reference, they passed the information along to the FBI. Prince says that is what really prompted Comey to reopen the investigation; reportedly, the NYPD told the FBI that they were to revisit the email scandal, or the department would open its own investigation into the matter, to the extent allowed by law, jurisdictional boundaries, and other relevant considerations.

“They found State Department emails,” Prince said. “They found a lot of other really damning criminal information, including money laundering, including the fact that Hillary went to this sex island with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Bill Clinton went there more than 20 times. Hillary Clinton went there at least six times.”

Prince said, as well, that “the amount of garbage that they found in these emails, of criminal activity by Hillary, by her immediate circle, and even by other Democratic members of Congress was so disgusting they gave it to the FBI, and they said, ‘We’re going to go public with this if you don’t reopen the investigation and you don’t do the right thing with timely indictments.’”

Prince pointed out in the interview that the FBI is not empowered to bring charges, and that it is the Justice Department’s responsibility to do so.

However, said, Prince, “The Justice Department is trying to run out the clock, to elect Hillary Clinton, to prevent any real justice from being done.”

By Robert G. Yetman, Jr. Editor At Large