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The Diplomat, The Oligarch, The FBI Agent: Russian-American Faces Trial In Deripaska Sanctions Case

Ex FBI counterintelligence agent Charles McGonigal pled guilty & sentenced to 4 yrs prison for illegal work for sanctioned Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska

Sergei Shestakov goes on trial Jun 17 on similar charges

#OlegDeripaska #Deripaska #SergeiShestakov #CharlesMcGonigal

rferl.org/a/russia-sanctions-d

RFE/RL · The Diplomat, The Oligarch, The FBI Agent: Russian-American Faces Trial In Deripaska Sanctions CaseBy Mike Eckel

Dogged By Debts, Disputes And Divorce, A Russian Oligarch Also Draws FBI Scrutiny

In 2022 the FBI looked into Vladimir Gusinsky's ties to former FBI agent Charles McGonigal, who was sentenced to prison for sanctions evasion work for Oleg Deripaska

By Mike Eckel and Todd Prince

#VladimirGusinsky #CharlesMcGonigal #RussianOligarch

rferl.org/a/russia-gusinsky-mc

RFE/RL · Exclusive: Dogged By Debts, Disputes, And Divorce, A Russian Oligarch Also Draws FBI ScrutinyBy Mike Eckel

CNN: #CharlesMcGonigal, a 22-year veteran of the #FBI who oversaw national security investigations at the bureau’s New York field office, was sentenced Friday “to 28 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for his undisclosed receipt of $225,000 in cash from an individual with ties to the #Albanian government while McGonigal was supervising counterintelligence investigations,” the DOJ said.

amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/02/17/pol

CNN · Former FBI counterintelligence chief sentenced to more prison time over undisclosed foreign cashBy Josh Campbell

One of the highest-ranking #FBI agents to ever face #criminal charges was sentenced to over four years in #prison on Thurs for secretly colluding w/a #RussianOligarch.

#CharlesMcGonigal, a former counterintelligence leader in the FBI's New York field office, pleaded #guilty to a #conspiracy charge. McGonigal's lawyers had asked for no prison time, but the judge came down harshly on the former FBI bigwig.

#law #corruption
abcnews.go.com/US/fbi-counteri

ABC News · Ex-FBI counterintelligence chief Charles McGonigal sentenced to 50 months in prison for working with Russian oligarchBy Aaron Katersky

former head o #Counterintelligence 4 #FBI’s #NY office plead guilty in DC, in connection 2 scheme 2 hide hundreds of thousands of $$ he received from former #Albanian
intel employee as well as foreign contacts he made w/ the individual.

Guilty plea comes 1 mnth after former counterintel head, #CharlesMcGonigal, pleaded guilty in NY to 1 count of conspiring 2 violate US sanctions on #Russia on separate charges connected 2 work he did 4 sanctioned Russian oligarch in 2021

cnn.com/2023/09/22/politics/fb

newrepublic.com/article/170328

“Trump had been thoroughly compromised by Russia and was a grave threat to national security. But the FBI wasn’t doing anything about it!

One reason for that may have been that on far too many occasions, FBI men in sensitive positions ended up on the take from the very people they were supposed to be investigating”

The New Republic · Did the FBI’s Charles McGonigal Help Throw the 2016 Election to Trump?The shocking indictments against the former head of counterintelligence for the FBI in New York raise many dark questions.
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Charles McGonigal pleaded guilty to sanctions and money laundering charges related to work with sanctioned oligarch Oleg Deripaska - this case is in the Southern District of New York.

McGonigal is expected to resolve a different case in D.C. related to concealing $225,000 received from ex-Albanian intel officer

#McGonigal #CharlesMcGonigal

Overview of both cases:

newstracs.com/overview-of-indi

NewsTRACS · Highlights of former FBI official Charles McGonigal's indictments and networkFormer FBI official Charles McGonigal indictments related to Deripaska and Albania

Charles McGonigal, Former Special Agent In Charge Of The New York FBI Counterintelligence Division, Pleads Guilty in SDNY to Conspiring To Violate U.S. Sanctions On Russia - and to money laundering connected to 2021 agreement for services to Oleg Deripaska.

Charges carry a maximum sentence of five years in prison.

He is scheduled to be sentenced by Judge Rearden on December 14, 2023.

justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/forme

USA v McGonigal Information
justice.gov/media/1310496/dl?i

www.justice.govFormer Special Agent In Charge Of The New York FBI Counterintelligence Division Pleads Guilty to Conspiring To Violate U.S. Sanctions On RussiaDamian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Matthew G. Olsen, the Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department’s National Security Division, and James Smith, the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced today that CHARLES MCGONIGAL, a former Special Agent in Charge (“SAC”) of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (“FBI”) Counterintelligence Division in New York, pled guilty to conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (“IEEPA”) and to commit money laundering in connection with his 2021 agreement to provide services to Oleg Deripaska, a sanctioned Russian oligarch. 

Lawyer for Charles McGonigal, ex-head of NYC FBI counterintelligence, expects DC case (concealing $225,000 received from ex-Albanian intel officer) to be resolved before trial.

McGonigal is also charged separately in NY for violating sanctions with work he did for Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.

#CharlesMcGonigal #McGonigal #Deripaska

cnn.com/2023/08/04/politics/fb

Here's my overview of the indictments and network connections of former FBI official Charles McGonigal

newstracs.com/overview-of-indi

Charles Pierce writes,

"There never has been a satisfactory resolution to questions about the New York FBI's involvement in the 'But Her Emails' angle of the 2016 election. For that matter, there never has been a satisfactory resolution to questions around the Russian rat-fckers' involvement in that same misbegotten exercise."

#FBI #CharlesMcGonigal #MerrickGarland #Russia #HillaryClinton

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esquire.com/news-politics/poli

EsquireMerrick Garland Is Going to Have a Long Day in the SenateBy Charles P. Pierce