DOJ charges: Russian intel agent paid FBI NY's counterintel head while he was investigating Russia

[bigtree]

Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw ·
Holy cow. “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.”

“McGonigal retired from the FBI in 2018.”

Frank Figliuzzi @FrankFigliuzzi1
A Russian intelligence agent paid the FBI NY’s head of counterintel while he was investigating Russia: Retired FBI Executive Charged With Concealing $225,000 In Cash Received From An Outside Source | USAO-DC | Department of Justice

WASHINGTON - Charles F. McGonigal, 54, a former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field office, has been arrested on charges relating to his receipt of $225,000 in cash from an individual who had business interests in Europe and who had been an employee of a foreign intelligence service, while McGonigal was serving as Special Agent in Charge of FBI counterintelligence efforts in the New York Office. McGonigal retired from the FBI in September of 2018.

According to the nine-count indictment, unsealed today, from August 2017, and continuing through and beyond his retirement from the FBI in September 2018, McGonigal concealed from the FBI the nature of his relationship with a former foreign security officer and businessperson who had ongoing business interests in foreign countries and before foreign governments. Specifically, McGonigal requested and received at least $225,000 in cash from the individual and traveled abroad with the individual and met with foreign nationals. The individual later served as an FBI source in a criminal investigation involving foreign political lobbying over which McGonigal had official supervisory responsibility. McGonigal is accused of engaging in other conduct in his official capacity as an FBI Special Agent in Charge that he believed would benefit the businessperson financially.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/retired-fbi-executive-charged-concealing-225000-cash-received-outside-source

[Beetwasher.]

1. And So It Begins

I think it's all related and this is a big move on the board. Things will start moving now.

[Scrivener7]

3. I hope you are so right!!!

[KPN]

11. Heck, it may all be related even more than many of us have ever really conceived. Could

McConnell have been clued into all of this when he refused to hold a vote on Garland's appointment to SC? The whole frigging party should be known as the Ratfuckers Party.

[plimsoll]

21. I thought they already were?

Since Nixon '68 at least.

[leftieNanner]

23. McConnell? Hmmm.

He's that Senator from the state where Oleg Deripaska was planning to build an aluminum plant, right?

[Wicked Blue]

30. Moscow Mitch

[LaMouffette]

2. Now do Michael Flynn and Paul Manafort and Traitor Trump and a healthy chunk of

the Republicans in Congress

[zuul]

4. He sold out his country and threw his life away for $225,000.

What a stupid mother fucker.

[Scrivener7]

6. Right? It's scary to think how stupid some of our highest officials actually are.

[KPN]

13. The $225k is only what we know -- but if so, yeah, fucking Wow! He sold out

all of us for that relatively piddling amount?!!!

[bucolic_frolic]

5. Democracy for sale, Sheriff agrees to look the other way

Always the same game. How can I help you?

[Marcuse]

7. Putin and Rudy had the New York FBI office working against Hillary in 2016.

[link:https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/doj-watchdog-says-he-s-investigating-alleged-fbi-leaks-giuliani-n1100006|

][link:https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/comey-says-he-launched-probe-clinton-email-leaks-he-was-n945666|

James Comey, based on public comments from top Trump surrogate Rudy Giuliani and others in October 2016, launched an investigation into leaks about the Hillary Clinton email investigation that he suspected originated in the New York field office, he told congressional investigators Friday, but said he was fired from the FBI before it reached a conclusion.

Comey said Giuliani appeared to be making statements at the time “based on his knowledge of workings inside the FBI,” raising concerns to him “that we may have a leak problem,” according to a transcript of the former FBI director’s testimony released Saturday.
[link:https://oig.justice.gov/node/640|

Sold us out for chicken change. Thought he had it all arranged.

[tikka]

10. +1000

[triron]

12. Bet Hillary knew it too.

[KPN]

14. Yeah, that's a good bet for sure.

[uponit7771]

25. +1,

[gratuitous]

8. Operating right under the former guy's nose

All the while the former guy was squawking about the fake Russia hoax, his own Special Agent in Charge of FBI counterintelligence in New York was taking payoffs from the Russians.

My goodness, wouldn't this be a serious matter for any other president!

[Scrivener7]

9. Well, it was all for tfg's benefit!

[plimsoll]

22. Only if the President was a Democrat.

It's OK if you're a Republican.

[Justice]

15. McGonigal led National Security Cyber and Counterintelligence coordination

Mr. McGonigal oversaw the Cyber-Counterintelligence Coordination Section focused on streamlining and de-conflicting National Security Cyber and Counterintelligence investigations. https://potomacofficersclub.com/speakers/charles-mcgonigal/

Appointment to NY office was in October of 2016. https://www.fbi.gov/news/press-releases/charles-mcgonigal-named-special-agent-in-charge-of-the-counterintelligence-division-for-the-new-york-field-office

[Botany]

32. "McGonigal led National Security Cyber and Counterintelligence coordination."

So McGonigal just missed the > 2,000 contacts between Putin's Alfa Bank and the Trump Campaign's Server in Lititiz, PA from April to late Sept in 2016 and the other contacts between Alfa Bank's and Spectrum Health, of Grand Rapids, Michigan? Spectrum Health is closely linked to the DeVos family. (Betsy DeVos and her brother Erik Prince)

This shit was known to the FBI prior to the 2016 election.

Was There a Connection Between a Russian Bank and the Trump Campaign?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/15/was-there-a-connection-between-a-russian-bank-and-the-trump-campaign

[MagickMuffin]

16. Rudy's point man in NY, who leaked info pertaining to Hillary

Let’s look for the coverup on this huge detail!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

17. Working their way up the tree. . . . nt

[dlk]

18. This may just be the tip of the iceberg

I’m concerned there is much more to this conspiracy, with tentacles reaching into the highest echelons of our government. Putin wants to destroy America and it has been clear for some time, his plots and psy-ops are deeply embedded.

[Thrill]

19. So that's the price to sellout your country

.

[dalton99a]

20. Goddamn traitor.

[kentuck]

24. How corrupt is the FBI?

They seem to be sufficiently "trumpified"..

[bigtree]

27. you mean the FBI who investigated and has indicted one of their own chief agents?

...or the one Trump ran?

[Harker]

26. Russia, Russia, Russia. n/t

[poli-junkie]

28. So is Garland picking up what Barr tried to squash in regard in the Mueller investigation?

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That Rudy / NY FBI field office connection was highly suspect back in 2015 - 2016.

[NBachers]

29. This is Life Sentence in Ultramax type stuff

[Kingofalldems]

31. This guy may have info on Trump.