FBI agent who went after Trump gets his bell rung on criminal charges for second time

Go after the Clintons and you might end up face-down somewhere with several bullets to the head and have it called suicide. Go after former President Donald Trump, and you might end up disgraced for having been caught doing what you accused him of doing.

Enter Charles McGonigal, a former special agent heading the FBI's counterintelligence division in New York. 

[H/T Washington Times]

Chuck arrived at Manhattan federal court in New York on March 8th and pleaded guilty on September 22, to concealment of material facts which carries a maximum prison sentence of five years.

McGonigal was one of the agents involved in the make-believe Trump-Russia collusion probe and this was the second time Chucky pleaded guilty to criminal charges, this time for taking $225,000 in cash from a former intelligence agent, an ex-Albanian operative while working for the FBI.

The disgraced anti-Trumper, conspiracy theorist conspirator, was originally handed down nine counts, including falsifying records, making false statements [aka lying] and concealing material facts [aka covering up]. At the time, he was facing a 55-year stretch in the slammer with the nine charges, but now he faces a maximum sentence of five years for a single criminal count.

McGonigal is scheduled to be sentenced on Feb. 16, 2024. He is the fourth main FBI official from the Trump-Russia collusion probe to be indicted or face criminal charges. He was also charged in separate indictments in New York District court and is being accused of illegally accepting money for his work with Oleg Deripaska, a Russian oligarch, and the Albanian intelligence official.

McGonigal was legally required to report his contacts with foreign officials to the agency but instead, he hid his ties and made business arrangements that conflicted with his job, according to prosecutors. Court filings allege that he took a six-figure payoff from Agron Neza, who was identified in European media and did favors for him in exchange, like meeting with Albania Prime Minister Edi Rama.

While McGonigal first pleaded not guilty to the charges, court documents imply that his team of lawyers are looking to make a plea deal with federal prosecutors.

Obviously there's more to the dealings and shenanigans McGonigal undertook, but the important point of all of this is how incredibly hypocritical the Trump detractors are, and perhaps it's only a matter of time that the rest of the motley crew will be revealed.

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Ex-FBI Crossfire Hurricane agent may have Russian ties

A former FBI honcho who was involved with the investigation of former President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign is being investigated over his alleged ties to Russia and other foreign governments. The major differences between the former agent and Trump is that the latter was innocent and was the target of a political hit job.

Special Agent Charles McGonigal who was assigned to head the counterintelligence division of the FBI New York City field office in October 2016 is being investigated. An unnamed individual was subpoenaed last year for information about McGonigal's alleged involvement with a top aid to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, according to court documents obtained by Insider.

It is unknown whether the grand jury is still convened or whether it was investigating McGonigal or someone with whom he had dealings. The documents did not suggest McGonigal had broken any law but may suggest that he is a woke stooge of a politically corrupt law enforcement agency that does the bidding of the Left.

The subpoena requested information on the former FBI official and the consulting firm Spectrum Risk Solutions. 

Soon after the subpoena was issued, Sergey Shestakov, a former top Soviet Foreign Ministry official, filed as a foreign agent for Yevgenyi Fokin, a top aid to Deripaska. Shestakov’s filing showed that McGonigal aided Shestakov in making connections between Fokin and Spectrum, and Fokin and the law firm Kobre & Kim.

“If McGonigal is mixed up in any way shape or form with Deripaska, that strikes me as unseemly, to put it politely,” Tim Weiner, who wrote “Enemies: A History of the FBI,” told Insider.

McGonigal had previously headed the FBI Field Office in Washington, D.C. in counterintelligence and was one of the first FBI officials  to hear claims that a Trump campaign official told an Australian diplomat that the Russians had damaging information on then-Democratic presidential candidate, the execrable Hillary Clinton. The bureau also began receiving briefings from former British spy Christopher Steele that became known as the Steele Dossier and proven to be a load of crap.

McGonigal was also key in launching Crossfire Hurricane, the FBI operation into the Trump campaign's alleged ties to Russia, which turned out to be hogwash, as the subsequent Mueller investigation discovered.

On October 4, 2016 then-Director and close consultant to the Lord, James Comey, promoted McGonigal to head the counterintelligence division in the NYC Field Office.

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So is McGonigal a Russian colluder? A scumbag with a badge? A seditionist?

Perhaps we will find out, so stay tuned.

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