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Former FBI agent charged with aiding Russian oligarch

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  1. Amiga

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    Deripaska was sanctioned in 2018 for the Russian interference in the 2016 election.


    Former FBI agent charged with aiding Russian oligarch | PBS NewsHour

    NEW YORK (AP) — A former high-ranking FBI counterintelligence official who investigated Russian oligarchs has been indicted on charges he secretly worked for one, in violation of U.S. sanctions. The official was also charged, in a separate indictment, with taking cash from a former foreign security officer.

    Charles McGonigal, the special agent in charge of the FBI’s counterintelligence division in New York from 2016 to 2018, is accused in an indictment unsealed Monday of working with a former Soviet diplomat-turned-Russian interpreter on behalf of Oleg Deripaska, a Russian billionaire they purportedly referred to in code as “the big guy” and “the client.”

    McGonigal, who had supervised and participated in investigations of Russian oligarchs, including Deripaska, worked to have Deripaska’s sanctions lifted in 2019 and took money from him in 2021 to investigate a rival oligarch, the Justice Department said.
     
    #1 Amiga, Jan 24, 2023
  2. subtomic

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    I know the GOP will howl about covering up Hunter’s peccadilloes, but Biden needs to fire Christopher Wray. His handling of the Russian meddling in the elections, the background checking of Kavanaugh and his failure to heed the warnings that preceded Jan 6 all show a director running a very chaotic organization and this latest incident should be the last straw.
     
    #2 subtomic, Jan 24, 2023
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    Derp.
     
    #3 KingCheetah, Jan 24, 2023
  4. Amiga

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    I also want to know how long he has been compromised. May go all the way back to the election inference itself.
     
    #4 Amiga, Jan 24, 2023
  5. DaDakota

    DaDakota Balance wins
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    Wait, now republicans care about Russian interference? After they took all that Russian money through the NRA in 2016......how strange.

    DD
     
    #5 DaDakota, Jan 24, 2023
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