Former top FBI official Charles McGonigal arrested over ties to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska

[DURHAM D]

https://abcnews.go.com/US/former-fbi-official-charles-mcgonigal-arrested-ties-russian/story?id=96609658

Charles McGonigal, who was the special agent in charge of counterintelligence in the FBI’s New York Field Office, is under arrest 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.

McGonigal retired from the FBI in 2018. He was arrested Saturday afternoon after he arrived at JFK Airport following travel in Sri Lanka, the sources said.

[cilla4progress]

1. What?!

NY office huh? Friend of tfg, then?

[Walleye]

4. This be the one who leaked the info on Hillary's email investigation.Just before the election?

[wnylib]

16. ?? Wasn't that James Comey?

[Walleye]

17. Well he certainly did nothing to stop the leak

I remember that Giuliani was positively gleeful that day

[Ocelot II]

2. Well, this is pretty stinky.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

[Walleye]

3. Good lord!! Sen. Joe McCarthy's fears are coming true

But he was sure it was the political left in America that was colluding with the Russians. Turns out he had the right enemy but the wrong culprits

[MagickMuffin]

5. Perhaps McGonigal is Rudy's friend he spoke about during the 2016 election

Within the FBI that was smearing Hillary!

[peggysue2]

10. Certainly a possibility

There were many mentions of the NY FBI office being swamped with hard-right devotees and dedicated Hillary-haters in 2016. Also Rudy's connection to these guys.

So, yes. I would not be surprised if those details were proven true.

[MagickMuffin]

12. Especially since McGonial is also a Russian asset

Makes perfect sense that he’d be a leaker to the gop!

[peggysue2]

25. Yup!

Never could I have imagined a few short years ago that we'd be swamped by so many Russian apologists, assets and dedicated admirers of Putin's Mafia State.

Still makes my head swim!

[patphil]

6. He was in charge of counterintelligence in the NY field office.

And he was buddy buddy with a Russian oligarch. Sure looks to me like there might be an espionage charge coming at some point.

[Botany]

7. The FBI's NY Field Office? The one which along with Comey in 2016 allegedly rat fucked Hillary?

So was Charles McGonigal being paid by Putin (Oleg Deripaska) in 2016?

Is this all part of the biggest crime in America's history part of which was installing TFG into
the White House?

[DURHAM D]

8. Good questions. nt

[triron]

26. Likely.

[Kid Berwyn]

9. Friend o' Rudy?

Either way, Mr. McGonigal should be put on suicide watch.

He knows more than the My Pillow guy.

[malaise]

11. How Oleg's Kentucky refinery going these days?

That is all

[Hermit-The-Prog]

19. Is that Moscow Mitch's buddy?

[republianmushroom]

13. squat

won't go there, not now

[obamanut2012]

14. All the Hillary stuff came from that field office......

[DURHAM D]

15. So far MSNBC is completely ignoring this story.

Interesting...

[Takket]

22. If it just broke they probably need time to verify it themselves.

They can’t really use ABC as a source.

[Raster]

20. YES!!! This was the FBI branch office that seemed to make it their goal to...

...target Clinton. It is believed that FBI leaks about Clinton --whether factual or not-- came from the NYC office of the FBI.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

18. Little Poot-Putin was scared shitless of Hillary.

[Raster]

21. Because instead of kissing his ass, Hillary would have kicked his ass.

[keep_left]

23. It's like a plot from that spy show "The Americans"...

...only about 40 years too late. (The Americans was set in the early-to-mid-'80s). Little did we know that Russian gangster/crony capitalism would be a potentially bigger enemy than the USSR was.

[DURHAM D]

24. At 11:15 MSNBC mentions this for the first time.

However, they are mostly talking about the Russians, not McGonigal.