FBI's Charles McGonigal, who helped investigate Trump for 'colluding' with Russia, sentenced to four years - for colluding with Russia
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"Charles McGonigal, a former counterintelligence leader in the FBI's New York field office, pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge."
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McGonigal accepted over $17,000 from Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska who he supplied information to.
Deripaska is a close associate of Vladimir Putin and has a net worth of about $3 billion.
"Charles McGonigal violated the trust his country placed in him by using his high-level position at the FBI to prepare for his future in business," said U.S. Attorney Damian Williams.
McGonigal only did what USA top bureaucrats all do. Influence peddling, revolving door, helping USA foes - aka treason.
Derispaska name rings bells - he may have helped set up Steele Dossier? - I can't look it up rn.
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George Papadapoulos weighs in - McGonigal was key to FBI's non-case on him - & Peter Strzok's boss - yes, THAT Strzok.
https://twitter.com/GeorgePapa19/status/1735481435388031345
Ex-FBI Counterintelligence Chief, and Peter Strzok’s boss, Charles McGonigal, who was in charge of my “case” during the Russia investigation scam, was just sentenced to 4+ years for colluding with Russian oligarchs.
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McGonigal didn't just help Russia. China & Albania too!
& at trial, McGonigal claimed to have had his hands in a ton of bad-FBI investigations.
Charles McGonigal, now known to have leaked sensitive information to China-linked targets of an FBI investigation he was helping oversee, played a role in a host of other FBI investigations, including a Chinese mole hunt, a defensive briefing given to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, the baseless Trump-Russia collusion investigation, a failed prosecution of Huawei executives, Chelsea Manning's leaks to WikiLeaks, the explosion of TWA Flight 800, Al-Qaeda terrorist attacks, and more.
McGonigal, who served as the section chief of the Cyber-Counterintelligence Coordination Section at FBI Headquarters for much of 2016, was promoted by since-fired FBI Director James Comey to be the special agent in charge of the FBI’s counterintelligence division at its New York field office in October 2016.
McGonigal was sentenced in December 2023 for money laundering related to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska and in February 2024 for receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars from an Albanian government official.
Neither sentencing memo made any mention of McGonigal’s role in the hunt for a mole who was helping the Chinese nor of his connections to the flawed Crossfire Hurricane investigation. Ironically, the Crossfire Hurricane hoax [falsely] painted Donald Trump as a Russian asset.
& China what???? Could it be...... CEFC? HUNTER BIDEN????
CEFC was a multibillion-dollar Chinese conglomerate founded by Ye Jianming, a Chinese Communist Party-linked business tycoon who subsequently disappeared in China but with whom Hunter Biden had attempted to work out numerous deals. Chinese state-run media identified Ye in an alleged corruption case in 2018, and China allowed CEFC to go bankrupt.
Hunter Biden and his associated businesses are also believed to have received millions in payments from CEFC in 2017 and 2018, and Ye’s deputy, Patrick Ho, also agreed to pay Hunter Biden a $1 million legal retainer.
Hunter referred to Ho as “the fucking spy chief of China” in a May 11, 2018, voice recording.
Ho was sentenced to three years in prison in March 2019 for violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. He was deported to Hong Kong in June 2021 after serving his sentence.
McGonigal met with prosecutors in November 2023 and “acknowledged during the proffer interview that he shared information with Person B about the CEFC investigation and anticipated arrests arising from it.”
McGonigal was recently revealed to have leaked information to “Person B” — believed to be businessman Dorian Duka, an ally of Albanian socialist president Edi Rama and an associate of CEFC — even as the FBI was secretly investigating the Chinese company, according to the new report by Acting DOJ Inspector General William M. Blier.
Biden Crime Family
& it sounds like McGonigal betrayed CIA too, when CIA had to find China spy in their ranks.
“The head of the FBI’s hunt for the mole who betrayed U.S. assets in China turned out to himself be a mole who leaked information to the CCP operation that paid the Bidens,” the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project tweeted on Monday.
It goes on & on.
"Defensive briefings" are a dodge that bad-FBI uses to help its favorites.
Say you're Hillary & want crooked deal with, say, Turkey. Crime must stay secret of course.
Someone goofed & your Turkey deal is about to get investigated by USA DOJ / FBI. But you have FBI buddy.
What does he do? Give you "defensive briefing", he lets you know that FBI is onto you & you should clean up, destroy evidence etc.
Looks like McGonigal did that for Hillary.
FBI documents indicate that McGonigal played a role in the defensive briefing given to the Clinton campaign in October 2015.
The declassified FBI record states that the briefing to the Clinton campaign was given by FBI official David Archey, but McGonigal was the top FBI official “CC’ed” on the write-up of the Clinton briefing.
It goes on & on.
McGonigal as Strzok boss, helped start Crossfire Hurricane. (Russiagate hoax)