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Can Jim please swap the word 'Jew' for 'Wonk'?
Just for one day, I would like a break from seeing that one word for a day…
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Disgraced FBI counterintelligence chief Charles McGonigal who investigated Trump's debunked Kremlin ties is set to plead guilty to colluding with RUSSIA and illegally working for an oligarch
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.
A former FBI agent accused by U.S. prosecutors of working for sanctioned Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska may change his plea in relation to criminal charges of evading U.S. sanctions and money laundering, court records showed on Monday.
Charles McGonigal had previously pleaded not guilty. A change of plea hearing before U.S. District Judge Jennifer Rearden in Manhattan has been scheduled for Aug. 15.
McGonigal served as a top FBI counterintelligence official in New York during the Russia probe of former President Donald Trump.
McGonigal's lawyers did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's office in Manhattan, which brought the case, declined to comment.
During a status conference last week, McGonigal lawyer Seth DuCharme said there was a 'decent chance the case is going to be resolved.'
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.
He and the Kremlin have denied any election interference.
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.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12382523/Disgraced-FBI-counterintelligence-chief-investigated-Trumps-debunked-Kremlin-ties-set-plead-guilty-colluding-RUSSIA-illegally-working-oligarch.html
Judge in Trump Mar-a-Lago classified documents case demands to know why the DOJ wants to use a grand jury from out of state as she hands Jack Smith multiple blows
Judge Aileen Cannon demanded to know why Jack Smith used two grand juries
Evidence was collected in DC, even though charges were brought in Florida
The federal judge in Donald Trump's classified documents case on Monday asked prosecutors why they had used grand juries in Florida and in Washington to build their case when charges were filed in South Florida.
Judge Aileen Cannon, who was appointed by Trump, asked Special Counsel Jack Smith and his team to respond by August 22.
'The response shall address the legal propriety of using an out-of-district grand jury proceeding to continue to investigate and/or to seek post-indictment hearings on matters pertinent to the instant indicted matter in this district,' she wrote in a court filing.
Cannon's decision is a setback for Smith and could lead to a delay in the classified documents trial.
Trump appeared in Miami federal court in June to plead not guilty to charges related to his handling of government documents and an alleged cover-up.
Since then, the indictment has been expanded to accuse him and two aides — Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveria — of trying to evade government efforts to retrieve some 32 classified documents.
Much of the case was built in Washington, D.C., where prosecutors questioned witnesses in front of a grand jury.
But in June, reports surfaced that a second grand jury, this time in Miami, had begun hearing evidence.
Legal experts suggested it might mean that charges could be brought in both Florida and Washington.
In a recent court filing, prosecutors said they continued to use the grand jury in Washington even after Trump had been charged in June as they probed allegations of obstruction.
Cannon asked Smith to justify using the two grand juries in a court order that dealt a blow to the special counsel's strategy.
He had asked to introduce additional evidence 'under seal' — preventing it being published — in order to protect the secrecy of a grand jury, and he asked the judge for a hearing to determine whether Nauta's attorney had too many conflicts of interest to guarantee proper representation of his client.
Cannon knocked back his request to introduce evidence under seal.
'The motion for leave and the supplement plainly fail to satisfy the burden of establishing a sufficient legal or factual basis to warrant sealing the motion and supplement,' she wrote.
The case is just one of three that Trump must contend with, even as the race for 2024 heats up.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is in the final stages of her investigation into Trump's efforts to reverse his defeat in the key swing state of Georgia.
If he is indicted, it will the fourth time he has been criminally charged since March.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12382619/Judge-Trump-Mar-Lago-classified-documents-case-demands-know-DOJ-wants-use-grand-jury-state-hands-Jack-Smith-multiple-blows.html
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