The irony and hypocrisy is thick. Charles McGonigal was an FBI counterintelligence official in charge of the FBI New York field office. McGonigal was tasked with investigating Russian collusion and Russian sanction violations.
McGonigal was sentenced to four-years in federal prison today for colluding with a Russian (Oleg Deripaska) to avoid sanctions.
As noted by Politico, “McGonigal, who lives in New York, was separately charged in federal court in Washington, D.C., with concealing at least $225,000 in cash he allegedly received from a former Albanian intelligence official while working for the FBI. He faces sentencing in that case on Feb. 16.”
NEW YORK — A former top FBI counterintelligence official was ordered Thursday to spend over four years in prison for violating sanctions on Russia by going to work for a Russian oligarch seeking dirt on a wealthy rival after he finished his government career.
Charles McGonigal was sentenced to four years and two months in prison in Manhattan federal court by Judge Jennifer H. Rearden, who said McGonigal harmed national security by repeatedly flouting sanctions meant to put economic pressure on Russia to get results without military force. He was also fined $40,000. (read more)
Definitely COMEDIAN material!
Sheesh. Dude is a downright Forrest Gump
“McGonigal’s early career as special agent in New York gave him exposure to some storied cases. He investigated the crash of TWA Flight 800, the “illegals program” that rounded up Russian sleeper agents, and the September 11 attacks. In Washington, he ran the FBI’s WikiLeaks task force that tracked down and convicted Chelsea Manning, as well as a joint CIA-FBI secret task force dedicated to hunting for Chinese moles inside US intelligence agencies. “
https://www.businessinsider.com/fbi-charlie-mcgonigal-labyrinth-oleg-deripaska-russia-trump-allison-guerriero-2023-2
He’s no Forrest Gump. Try Aldrich Ames, an American former CIA counterintelligence officer who was convicted of espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union and Russia in 1994. Sentenced in 1994 to 63 months in prison.
Compare and contrast! This is a joke sentence.
The fact that this sentence is such a joke, in combination with the fact that they keep having these people get their crimes on the record, under oath, continues to give me hope that maybe, just maybe, there will be a RICO suave moment someday.
I know. So much bad has happened that it is unlikely. But it sure seems like they are squeezing their way up the ladder.
This is how a fiefdom comes undone. A guy gets sloppy, and someone at the top decides to make an example of him to send a message. Except they never expected he would plead guilty. Now they are stuck. What to do with the others? Suddenly, the stuff can no longer be swept under the rug, and watch out below.
He knows too much and was offered a deal that he could not refuse –
1. You and members of your family are going to die in some dreadfully horrific phreak accident in the near future, or,
2. You can spare the lives of your family if you STFU and spend the next four years of your pathetic and traitorous life in prison.
FJB!!
So the guy in charge of keeping an eye on the Russians was working with the Russians. And the FBI tried to sell the Trump / Russia collusion and it was the FBI / Clinton/ Obama who colluded. Classic.
DC Deep State the epitome of evil.
On top of that, the US is now the laughing stock of the entire world.
Our “intelligence community” has become a gang of Inspector Clouseaus, but lacking any Inspector Dreyfus.
The FBI Traitor got less time in prison than most J6 defendants who just walked around in Capitol Building hallway!
Tells you alot about Democrat political power!
Only 4 years?! What a joke!
Jonathan Pollard was sentenced to 30 years in a maximum security prison for passing secrets to a friendly allie, Israel! Information that was supposed to be shared with them.
Compare and contrast.
Two tiers of justice. Protect your friends; damage your enemies.
https://www.deepcapture.com/wp-content/uploads/Finalized_Complaint_COMPRESSED.pdf
McGonigal was named in this dossier in which there is ample evidence that Jack Smith blackmailed people for money and said he would protect them from prosecution when Jack Smith was Special Prosecutor. McGonigal also pled guilty to money laundering and other crimes. He is named by the witnesses against Jack Smith because he played a role in the blackmail scheme.
Jack Smith might have been rescued from going to jail for blackmail in return for “getting Trump,” by Lisa Monaco. This has been alleged as an hypothesis but I have no data to confirm that this is true.
DOJ Inspector General Horowitz refuses to investigate allegations against Jack Smith saying DOJ has no jurisdiction!!!
He should be making little rocks out of big rocks for at least 50 years. We have to hold these “public servants” to a higher standard, the punishment should be a deterrent to future corruption otherwise the fbi will remain useless and corrupt to the core as it obviously is now.
You can’t make this stuff up- if we actually had a free and unbiased press in the country- where everyone got the REAL news (Not half the country only hearing leftist propaganda and lLies like “Hunter’s laptop is Russian Disinformation “- who was dumb enough to beieve that after seeing the photos of him drugging and whoring?) things might calm down…..
You couldn’t make this *&%$ up.
Did he lose his job or get promoted?