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mysteryowl

(9,353 posts)
Fri Feb 10, 2023, 11:16 AM Feb 2023

How the Case of Arrested FBI Agent Charles McGonigal Is Tied to a Russia-Linked Influence Effort

Feb. 9, 2023 -- Mother Jones

It’s all about a mysterious shell company, a top GOP operative, Albania, and lots of money.

It was shocking news: Charles McGonigal, a former counterintelligence chief for the FBI, was arrested for his alleged role in two separate schemes. In one, he purportedly accepted $225,000 from an Albanian American businessman, while he was still in the FBI, and did favors for that businessman and Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama.

In the other, McGonigal, after he retired in 2018, allegedly provided investigative services to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, who was sanctioned in 2018 for assisting the global “malign” activities of Putin’s regime. McGonigal’s indictments raise a boatload of questions and has spurred the bureau to scrutinize his actions when he was in charge of monitoring and thwarting the intelligence efforts of foreign powers (including Russia) aimed at the United States. In spy-movie parlance, the FBI will want to know when did he go bad (presuming he did go bad).

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/02/how-the-case-of-arrested-fbi-agent-charles-mcgonigal-is-tied-to-a-russia-linked-influence-effort/

This article is very helpful to understand what is going on with the Charles McGonigal indictments, so I thought I would share by posting it.

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How the Case of Arrested FBI Agent Charles McGonigal Is Tied to a Russia-Linked Influence Effort (Original Post) mysteryowl Feb 2023 OP
Thank you for posting this, gab13by13 Feb 2023 #1
you are welcome mysteryowl Feb 2023 #3
Keith Olbermann has been on this for weeks, now. He explains lindysalsagal Feb 2023 #2
Oooh! 2naSalit Feb 2023 #4
How connected is Rudy Giuliani to McGonigal? kentuck Feb 2023 #5

gab13by13

(32,948 posts)
1. Thank you for posting this,
Fri Feb 10, 2023, 11:30 AM
Feb 2023

This needs to stay on the front page.

I just hope to the gods that this gets properly investigated because it is huge news. This isn't just about McGonigal, the entire story needs to be uncovered.

lindysalsagal

(23,003 posts)
2. Keith Olbermann has been on this for weeks, now. He explains
Fri Feb 10, 2023, 12:21 PM
Feb 2023

that while holding an fbi director's job, he was helping funnel money from russian oligarchs to gop henchmen. Otherwise known as "collusion."

2naSalit

(104,301 posts)
4. Oooh!
Fri Feb 10, 2023, 02:14 PM
Feb 2023

Does it involve czarina's vagina shaped glass building? No, wait, I think that's in Baku.



kentuck

(115,829 posts)
5. How connected is Rudy Giuliani to McGonigal?
Fri Feb 10, 2023, 02:22 PM
Feb 2023

He bragged about his connections to active and retired FBI people. Did Rudy know Deripaska?

If Rudy is connected, then it is a good bet that his best friend and client, Donald, is also connected to McGonigal.

He may have been their conduit to assisting the Russians in their campaigns against Hillary and Biden?

I would bet that McGonigal could spill a lot of beans.

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