FBI official who worked Trump-Russia probe, later accused of conspiring with Russia to plead guilty

Former FBI agent to plead guilty in Russian oligarch-related case​

McGonigal was charged over his ties to Oleg Deripaska, a Russian billionaire who has been sanctioned by the United States and criminally charged last year with violating those sanctions.


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HARK! said:

An ex-FBI official who was part of the bureau’s Trump-Russian collusion probe into former President Donald Trump’s campaign will plead guilty to charges of colluding with Russia himself, a federal judge suggested on Monday.

FBI official who worked Trump-Russia probe, later accused of conspiring with Russia, to plead guilty

An ex-FBI official who was part of the bureau’s Trump-Russian collusion probe into former President Donald Trump’s campaign will plead guilty to charges of colluding with Russia himself, a federal judge suggested on Monday.

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Thanks man.. truth coming out every day.

McGonigal possibly helped play a role in tanking the collusion investigation.

It's so interesting how different political sides see this.

One side says, see, I told you the FBI was corrupt. Look how this guy who colluded with Russia helped to derail the Russian collusion investigation. Of course it didn't come out the way we wanted.

The other side says, see, I told you the FBI was corrupt. Look how this guy who colluded with Russia was himself on the Russian collusion investigation. Of course the investigation was phony.

Gene2memE said:

It's so interesting how different political sides see this.

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Agreed. Unless there's some public biases that allow people to create their own version of events.

Gene2memE said:

One side says, see, I told you the FBI was corrupt. Look how this guy who colluded with Russia helped to derail the Russian collusion investigation. Of course it didn't come out the way we wanted.

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Which doesn't make much sense. The FBI was getting warrants based on rumors....it's hard to look at either report and see even a tiny bit of derailing. If anything, it appears the FBI were able to investigate Trump on rumors and hopes using their most high tech and invasive methods possible....and there's no examples of a derailment?

We know what a derailment looks like. There would be FBI agents blowing whistles about all the stuff being done wrong. There was FBI informants leaking info on the case to the press every other week....no one even seemed concerned. The national archives have 6-9 boxes of documents from Biden's offices that haven't been examined yet....and it's been 6 months. Joe could snap his fingers and have those boxes' contents a matter of public record in a day....but I wouldn't hold your breath waiting.

Gene2memE said:

The other side says, see, I told you the FBI was corrupt. Look how this guy who colluded with Russia was himself on the Russian collusion investigation. Of course the investigation was phony.

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Also a pretty dumb statement. 1 corrupt agent doesn't make a corrupt FBI. You could argue that it's evidence of corruption in consideration of all the other evidence...but alone it just makes the FBI look inept, incompetent, or just really dumb. They're searching for collusion with Russia....and they pick the agent with the Russia wife, who speaks fluent Russian, drives a Pagani, and has such high quality informants in Russia....they pay him to give him information.


Edit- How hilarious would it be if the article said that the FBI began to suspect him when he told a coworker "In Russia, you don't pay informant...informant pays you" at the annual FBI Christmas party.

Ex-FBI spy hunter sentenced to [additional] 28 months for hiding secret cash payments​

The FBI’s former top spy hunter in New York was sentenced in Washington on Friday to 28 months in prison for concealing at least $225,000 in payments he received from a former Albanian intelligence official while working for the bureau.

Charles McGonigal will serve his punishment on top of a 50-month prison term he received separately in New York last year for illegally conspiring with a Russian oligarch who wanted to be removed from a U.S. sanctions list.

McGonigal earlier admitted conspiring to launder money and violate U.S. sanctions intended to punish Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska, an oligarch with ties to President Vladimir Putin. In his role at the FBI, McGonigal had been tasked with investigating Deripaska, whose own indictment on sanctions-violation charges was unsealed a few months before McGonigal’s.

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Ex-FBI spy hunter sentenced to [additional] 28 months for hiding secret cash payments​

The FBI’s former top spy hunter in New York was sentenced in Washington on Friday to 28 months in prison for concealing at least $225,000 in payments he received from a former Albanian intelligence official while working for the bureau.

Charles McGonigal will serve his punishment on top of a 50-month prison term he received separately in New York last year for illegally conspiring with a Russian oligarch who wanted to be removed from a U.S. sanctions list.

McGonigal earlier admitted conspiring to launder money and violate U.S. sanctions intended to punish Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska, an oligarch with ties to President Vladimir Putin. In his role at the FBI, McGonigal had been tasked with investigating Deripaska, whose own indictment on sanctions-violation charges was unsealed a few months before McGonigal’s.

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I would imagine he's up for parole in 5 or less.

Seems light all things considered.