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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFBI-traitor McGonigal didn't know how to react when the Russian's threw their money at him!
https://www.rawstory.com/charles-mcgonigal-fbi-2659388079/Allison Guerriero was in a relationship with former FBI official Charles McGonigal when he was the bureau's special agent in charge of the New York field office's counterintelligence division, and she told Insider in a lengthy interview that he was lured by the lavish perks that came with his perch in a world inhabited by spies and oligarchs.
"He was out of his element here," Guerriero said. "He wasn't prepared for all this money, all these power players. He should have stayed in his cute little suburb, mowing his lawn, playing his softball games."
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and Guerriero can't provide much in the way of a motive for her former lover's alleged crimes.
"He said he needed to make more money," she said. "He had two kids to put through college."
Okay... so this guy is smart and tough enough to become THE HEAD OF AN FBI FIELD OFFICE but when Russians shove their money into his pockets, he is just helpless and overwhelmed and doesn't know how to react.
Beetwasher.
(2,977 posts)Maybe just privileged.
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Skittles
(153,160 posts)when I was 19 and in the military issuing ID's, the elderly widow of a colonel pressed a $20 bill in my hand for my help - I told her that wasn't necessary but she insisted.....I took it to a captain who took it back to her and gently explained that the proof of her husband's service was all that we needed to issue the ID......the point is, I was still a TEENAGER but no one had to tell me that accepting that money would have been WRONG......these fuckers who "didn't know" or "weren't prepared" ARE JUST PLAIN FUCKING CORRUPT
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DURHAM D
(32,610 posts)They just don't care that the head of an FBI unit was a Russian asset.
Working to hide it in order to hide the fact that they are complicit and working for Putin.
uponit7771
(90,339 posts)Deep State Witch
(10,426 posts)When foreign agents give you money? YOU FUCKING REPORT IT! They have to have some kind of security office, even when you're the person in charge. Report it to another Field Office.
crickets
(25,980 posts)Beetwasher.
(2,977 posts)Thats basically what his job was, to ferret this shit out.
Justice matters.
(6,929 posts)Only speculation, but I wouldn't be surprised...