Ex-FBI agent Charles McGonigal sentenced for helping Russian oligarch

[muriel_volestrangler]

A former top FBI agent has been sentenced to over four years in prison for helping a Russian oligarch spy on a rival.

Charles McGonigal, 55, pleaded guilty in August to one count of conspiring to launder money.
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He is also accused of hiding $225,000 (£176,000) in payments from an Albanian agent while still working for the FBI.
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McGonigal was the special agent in charge of the FBI's counterintelligence division in New York before retiring in 2018. In that role, he was tasked with investigating Russian oligarchs.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-67717790

His attorneys "claimed that his fall from grace and loss of job are enough punishment" - Jesus, the entitlement of it all! "I perverted justice, and took bribes, but I'm such an important man that no longer being admired, or paid while I undermine my country, is a serious punishment". Four years seems pretty lenient to me.

[Irish_Dem]

1. Helping the Russians is treasonous.

Throw the book at this guy.

[Marcuse]

2. Hillary Clinton Is Probably Shaking Her Damn Head, and I'm Right There with Her.

It’s important to point out here that around the time of the 2016 election, that particular field office really had it out for Hillary Clinton. Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch spoke candidly about the animosity of that office toward Clinton when she was interviewed by investigators looking into Comey’s actions while FBI director. Comey had told Lynch that it had become clear that “there is a cadre of senior people in New York who have a deep and visceral hatred of Secretary Clinton,” and that “it was surprising to him or stunning to him.” Comey said that “it was hard to manage because these were agents that were very, very senior.”

Did those “very, very senior” agents include McGonigal? Legal and political observers have taken note of the timing of McGonigal‘s appointment, including historian Michael Beschloss, who observed that Comey made the appointment in late October of 2016, only “[t]hree weeks before his fateful announcement” that he was reopening the criminal case against Hillary Clinton.

Josh Marshall of the influential Talking Points Memo also couldn’t help but notice the timing, tweeting,

Weird. McGonigal got put in charge of CI [Counterintelligence] at the NYC field office like almost to the day they reopened the Clinton emails case.
https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/hillary-clinton-is-probably-shaking

[et tu]

9. 'very, very stinky' nt

[underpants]

3. Rudy had lots of friends in the NY FBI

Those contacts were a big party of influencing Comey to make the Hillary investigation announcement.

[dlk]

4. There is a clear double standard in our justice system

The puishment doesn’t fit the crime.

[mopinko]

5. quick plea b4 ppl can ask questions.

yeah, smells bad.

[IronLionZion]

6. Entitled traitor

Which is another reason why Trump shouldn't be president again. We don't need more traitors giving aid and comfort to America's enemies.

[rubbersole]

7. This pos personifies putin's reach in the USA.

TFG is just a higher ranking employee of the GRU. This story is still being written. It should be one of the 'Hidden History...' books by Thom Hartmann.

[Farmer-Rick]

8. Seems the FBI is very invested in getting GOP Nazis

Elected and into office at the federal level.

Seems most of our "secret" spy agencies are GOPers. And they use their power, like Comey, to get Nazis elected.

[liberalla]

10. It's NOT ENOUGH! Not nearly long enough for this scummy traitor...

He was so deeply involved in the NY FBI office and helping russia, protecting drumpf! He owes us a lot more than that...





This really burns me