Court records show a change of plea hearing for Charles McGonigal
McGonigal served as top FBI official in New York during Russia probe
Charles McGonigal had previously pleaded not guilty, accused by U.S. prosecutors of working for sanctioned Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska
Prosecutors in January said McGonigal, who led the FBI's counterintelligence division in New York before retiring in 2018, received concealed payments from Deripaska in exchange for investigating a rival oligarch and unsuccessfully pushed in 2019 to lift U.S. sanctions on Deripaska.
The charges against McGonigal came as U.S. prosecutors ramped up efforts to enforce sanctions on Russian officials and police their alleged enablers in response to the invasion of Ukraine.
Deripaska, the founder of Russian aluminum company Rusal , was among two dozen Russian oligarchs and government officials blacklisted by Washington in 2018 in reaction to Russia's alleged meddling in the 2016 U.S. election.
Among the areas probed by former special counsel Robert Mueller's investigators is Deripaska's relationship with former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort.
Mueller's report said Manafort told associates to provide Deripaska with internal polling data.
According to prosecutors, McGonigal pocketed $25,000 as an investigator for a law firm, then got payments of $51,000 and $41,790 doing work for Deripaska, during a period from August 2021 to November 2021.
He would try to conceal his employer's identity by referring to him as 'the big guy,' the Washington Times reported. The Big Guy? Irony alert
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There needs to be differentiation between the FBI agents that are personally disgraced for their own actions versus the ones that are just disgraced by the institution of the FBI.
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[NYPost] A San Francisco-based FBI special agent lied under oath about discussions he had with big tech companies that suppressed The Post’s reporting on the contents of first son Hunter Biden’s laptop hard drive before the 2020 election, according to an internal Facebook document. More Chinese threads? Elvis Chan made false statements about his communications with Facebook over the bombshell October 2020 reports that revealed Hunter involved his dad Joe in business deals with foreign nationals, internal communications obtained by the House Judiciary Committee show.
A Facebook employee said in an Oct. 15, 2020, message that he had spoken with Chan, who said he was "up to speed" on the FBI’s probe of Hunter’s laptop and "that there was no current evidence to suggest any foreign connection or direction of the leak."
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It’s almost like the FBI doesn’t follow the law.
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^ More like they have decided "We are the law."
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Any government official, agent, employee, or contractor, who is proven to lie during the 'course' of their job for ANY reason should be summarily executed.
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