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#maga NY FBI Chief was working for Russia .. the "extraordinary seriousness" of his choosing to work for Oleg Deripaska, whom the U.S. sanctioned for enabling Russia's annexation of Crimea.

One of the highest-ranking FBI agents to ever face #criminal charges was sentenced to over four years in prison on Thursday for secretly colluding with a Russian oligarch.

Charles #McGonigal, a former counterintelligence leader in the FBI's New York field office, pleaded guilty & sentenced to 50 months in prison. Traitor to America & the Constitution.

nbcnews.com/news/us-news/forme

NBC News · Former FBI spy hunter sentenced to 4 years for taking money from Putin crony in Russia sanctions case By Phil Helsel
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Charles McGonigal pleaded guilty to sanctions and money laundering charges related to work with sanctioned oligarch Oleg Deripaska - this case is in the Southern District of New York.

McGonigal is expected to resolve a different case in D.C. related to concealing $225,000 received from ex-Albanian intel officer

#McGonigal #CharlesMcGonigal

Overview of both cases:

newstracs.com/overview-of-indi

NewsTRACS · Highlights of former FBI official Charles McGonigal's indictments and networkFormer FBI official Charles McGonigal indictments related to Deripaska and Albania

Charles McGonigal, Former Special Agent In Charge Of The New York FBI Counterintelligence Division, Pleads Guilty in SDNY to Conspiring To Violate U.S. Sanctions On Russia - and to money laundering connected to 2021 agreement for services to Oleg Deripaska.

Charges carry a maximum sentence of five years in prison.

He is scheduled to be sentenced by Judge Rearden on December 14, 2023.

justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/forme

USA v McGonigal Information
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www.justice.govFormer Special Agent In Charge Of The New York FBI Counterintelligence Division Pleads Guilty to Conspiring To Violate U.S. Sanctions On RussiaDamian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Matthew G. Olsen, the Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department’s National Security Division, and James Smith, the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced today that CHARLES MCGONIGAL, a former Special Agent in Charge (“SAC”) of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (“FBI”) Counterintelligence Division in New York, pled guilty to conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (“IEEPA”) and to commit money laundering in connection with his 2021 agreement to provide services to Oleg Deripaska, a sanctioned Russian oligarch. 

NEW: Overview of Indictments and Network Connections of Former FBI Official Charles F. McGonigal

If you are following news on McGonigal, here's a resource with highlights of the indictments and related people & entities in McGonigal's network, my latest

newstracs.com/overview-of-indi

I’m really struggling to understand how a senior counterintelligence official in the US could consume classified information about Oleg Deripaska, including evidence that he has ordered murders of his enemies and interfered in our elections, and then once he retires he goes to work for Oleg Deripaska. #McGonigal

Timothy #Snyder "We cannot undo or redo 2016, but we can recognize and address our own failures. The tendency not to take other countries seriously, to imagine that all that matters is what happens here, to confuse what is said with what is happening: these are all American mistakes, which we keep making. ... while Ukrainians pay for them in the currency of blood as they resist Russian invasion."
#McGonigal #NewYorkTimes #FBI #Ukraine #Russia

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Thinking about...The Trauma of 2016 (spy scandal, part 2)By Timothy Snyder

“We are on the edge of a spy scandal with major implications for how we understand the Trump administration, our national security, and ourselves.”

Timothy Snyder on what it means that an FBI New York agent allegedly betrayed his mission. #essentialreading #McGonigal #FBI #Trump #Russia

open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p

Thinking about...The Specter of 2016By Timothy Snyder

In 2016, Trump's campaign manager ( #Manafort ) was a former employee of a Russian oligarch ( #Deripaska ), and owed money to that same Russian oligarch. And the #FBI special agent ( #McGonigal ) who was charged with investigating the Trump campaign's Russian connections then went to work (according to the indictment) for that very same Russian oligarch (Deripaska). This is obviously very bad for Trump personally. But it is also very bad for FBI New York, for the FBI generally, and for the United States of America.

snyder.substack.com/p/the-spec

Thinking about...The Specter of 2016By Timothy Snyder

Tim Snyder: "the circumstantial evidence suggests that we consider the possibility that the FBI's reporting work in 2016, which resulted in a framing of the issue which was convenient for #Trump and #Russia, might have had something to do with the fact (per the indictments) that one of its lead agents was willing to take money from foreign actors while on the job." snyder.substack.com/p/the-spec #TrumpRussia #2016 #McGonigal #FBI

Thinking about...The Specter of 2016By Timothy Snyder

Exclusive: Inside the extramarital affair and cash-fueled double life of Charles McGonigal, the FBI spy hunter charged with taking Russian money

The ex-head of counterintelligence for the FBI in NY was indicted twice this week for alleged crimes both before and after leaving the Bureau. But at the center of his undoing? A spurned girlfriend who saw too much.

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