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2023-01-24 Government Corruption

The festering rot at the FBI seems bigger and deeper than we ever guessed

[American Thinker] Charles McGonigal, a retired counterintelligence investigator from the FBI’s New York Field Office, was just arrested because he allegedly took substantial sums of money from Oleg Deripaska, a Russian billionaire, to get the latter off a U.S. sanctions list. Where this goes beyond the ordinary corruption that periodically crops up among people with too much power, too few morals, and too little accountability is that McGonigal was one of the people investigating Trump over the Russia Hoax, while Deripaska employed Christopher Steele, whose false dossier seeded the Russia Hoax.

Anyone who paid attention during the "hot" years of the Russia Hoax recognizes Deripaska’s name. He was a close ally of Vladimir Putin and, in 2018, the U.S. government sanctioned him for his involvement in Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea. Specifically with regard to the Russia Hoax, in 2021, Jerry Dunleavy summarized how closely allied Steele and Deripaska were:

Posted by Besoeker 2023-01-24 00:26|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ] Top

#1 We ought to be able to take the Mueller investigation back to customer service for a refund or at least an exchange, but please don’t bring Mueller before any committees to testify. That guy is further gone than Joe.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-01-24 05:35|| 2023-01-24 05:35|| Front Page Top

#2 Actually, this discovery has been hanging around for some time. Viz, Dec 20, 2021 at 11:14 AM So why now?

Retired Top FBI Counterintelligence Official Worked With Ex Russian Intelligence Officer Close to Deripaska, Foreign Agent Paperwork Reveals
A former senior Soviet Foreign Ministry official in the U.S. filed as a Foreign Agent for a top aide to Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska, who has been described by the U.S. Senate as a key figure in the Kremlin’s malign influence operations.
The paperwork filed under the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) has raised numerous concerns from experts who have noted that the aide, Yevgenyi (Evgeny, Evgeniy) Fokin, has reportedly been flagged by the FBI as a former senior Russian intelligence official.
In addition, the filing raises questions about the involvement of a former senior FBI counterintelligence official who reportedly connected Fokin to a law firm and business intelligence consultants.

The FARA filing was first publicly spotted by Wendy Siegelman, an independent investigative journalist

Posted by Slavising Unineting5672 2023-01-24 08:15|| 2023-01-24 08:15|| Front Page Top

#3 Ex-FBI agent charged with aiding Russian oligarch walks free on $500K bond: Prosecutors say he also took $225k in bribes from Albanian spy and had secret meeting with country's PM

Posted by Skidmark 2023-01-24 09:18|| 2023-01-24 09:18|| Front Page Top

#4 Guess better.

Posted by Angstrom 2023-01-24 09:52|| 2023-01-24 09:52|| Front Page Top

#5 Matt Gaetz has floated the idea for the reorganization of the FBI. He says the FBI 7th floor power should be decentralized across the U.S. with agents reporting to Federal Senate-approved prosecutors in these locations. I'd like to see more on such a concept.

Posted by JohnQC 2023-01-24 12:10|| 2023-01-24 12:10|| Front Page Top

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