15 Aug, 2023

Ex-FBI agent admits collusion with Russian tycoon

Former top counterintelligence official has pleaded guilty over his work for Oleg Deripaska

Charles McGonigal, the former counterintelligence head at the FBI’s New York bureau, made a plea deal on Tuesday on federal charges of conspiring with sanctioned Russian tycoon Oleg Deripaska.

“I understand what my actions have resulted in, and I’m deeply remorseful,” McGonigal told Judge Jennifer Rearden at the Southern District of New York. “My actions were never intended to hurt the United States, the FBI, or my family and friends.”

Prosecutors initially charged McGonigal with money laundering and violating US sanctions, and he faced up to 20 years behind bars if convicted. Under the terms of Tuesday’s plea deal, the maximum sentence he could get is five years.

McGonigal, 55, was arrested in January at New York’s JFK airport after returning from a business trip abroad. Federal prosecutors charged him with illegally working for Deripaska, who was placed on the sanctions list for allegedly “interfering” with the 2016 US presidential election and threatening the territorial integrity of Ukraine.

After retiring from the FBI in 2018, McGonigal allegedly met with Deripaska in Vienna and London and arranged for a $175,000 monthly retainer to a New York law firm, of which $25,000 would go to McGonigal. The law firm was supposed to help Deripaska with getting the sanctions removed. In 2021, McGonigal allegedly took a job from Deripaska to investigate rival tycoon Vladimir Potanin. He allegedly worked alongside Sergey Shestakov, a court interpreter and former Soviet and Russian diplomat.

The FBI concluded that McGonigal did not pass any classified information to foreign adversaries and that his misconduct was limited to corruption, the New York Times reported citing “people with knowledge of the case.”

McGonigal had been with the FBI for 22 years, participating in the TWA Flight 800 investigation and the 2010 investigation into WikiLeaks publication of State Department cables, among others. Then-director James Comey put him in charge of the New York Field Office counterintelligence division in October 2016.

He also had a part in the Bureau’s ‘Crossfire Hurricane’ probe into president Donald Trump, also known as “Russaigate,” as shown by a message voicing concern that the FISA warrant to spy on Trump via campaign aide Carter Page would be “a real monster” if made public.

McGonigal faces additional charges in another federal court for allegedly taking $225,000 in bribes from Albania, as part of an oil exploration scheme. Prosecutors say he was paid by a former employee of Albanian intelligence working for a Chinese conglomerate, starting sometime in 2017. Though he initially pleaded not guilty, the Times says McGonigal is now negotiating terms for those charges as well.

https://www.rt.com/news/581330-fbi-agent-russian-tycoon/

The Level of Pretending Needed to Believe This Is Jaw Dropping

August 15, 2023 | Sundance

The Fulton County clerk of courts is putting out the third public statement trying to explain and justify why they posted the grand jury indictment of Donald Trump before the grand jury had even met to vote on the indictment. This latest explanation is so incredulous it’s almost impossible to believe they are making this public:

According to the story above, the original indictment before the jury met, was a trial run upload, made of a totally fictious construct, with totally random charges, that just happened to line up with the exact same charges, in the exact same sequence, as the indictment after the jury voted. 👀🤔…

Yeah, when you are trying to get out of a hole this deep, it’s best to stop digging.

I wonder if Suspicious Cat believes the clerk?. KEK

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/08/15/the-level-of-pretending-needed-to-believe-this-is-jaw-dropping/

>>19366629

Its funny though

President Trump Announces August 21 Press Conference to Outline Georgia Election Fraud

August 15, 2023 | Sundance | 459 Comments

President Donald J. Trump has announced an 11:00am ET press conference for Monday, August 21st, to highlight evidence of Georgia election fraud. The Republican apparatus in Georgia is going to go bananas.

It’s not the Democrats and totalitarian leftists that are going to go bananas…. It’s the Republican Party apparatus, fraught with fear that their constructs are about to be revealed, who we will see going on the attack.

Corrupt Republicans are far more vicious than ordinary corrupt leftists and communists.The corrupt Republicans have far more to lose. Watch what happens.

(Spot On, Kemp was the first!)

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/08/15/president-trump-announces-august-21-press-conference-to-outline-georgia-election-fraud/

District Attorney Fani Willis Can Be Potentially Removed or Disciplined Based on the Law Signed by Georgia Governor Brian Kemp Three Months Ago

By Jim Hᴏft Aug. 15, 2023 7

Georgia’s Governor, Brian Kemp, signed a bill in May that will allow for the removal of elected district attorneys from office.

The newly enacted law (Senate Bill 92) establishes a statewide Prosecuting Attorneys Statewide Qualifications Commission vested with the power to investigate complaints against district attorneys and, if warranted, remove them from office.

The grounds for discipline, removal, or involuntary retirement of a district attorney or solicitor-general listed in the bill, include:

mental or physical incapacity interfering with the performance of his or her duties which is, or is likely to become, permanent;

willful misconduct in office;

with respect to district attorneys, willful and persistent failure to carry out duties pursuant to Code Section 15-18-6;

with respect to solicitors-general, willful and persistent failure to carry out duties pursuant to Code Section 15-18-66;

conviction of a crime involving moral turpitude;

conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice which brings the office into disrepute; or

knowingly authorizing or permitting an assistant district attorney or assistant solicitor-general to commit any act constituting grounds for removal under paragraphs (1) through (6) of this subsection.

This measure comes at a critical time, as Fani Willis, a Democrat serving as the Fulton County district attorney, is actively investigating former President Donald Trump in questioning the 2020 election. It’s an inquiry that echoes the years-long efforts by Stacey Abrams and other Democrats who have been raising similar concerns and challenging election integrity.

In a suspicious event, the Fulton County court website posted several charges against Trump, including RICO charges, earlier on Monday, even before the grand jury’s proceedings had concluded. The information was quickly taken down.

A Fulton County clerk said the Trump indictment documents posted online were “fictitious.”

The Office of the Fulton County Clerk of Superior and Magistrate Courts has learned of a fictitious document that has been circulated online and reported by various media outlets related to The Fulton County Special Purpose Grand Jury.

(Doubtful this will happen she is doing Bidans and Kemps bidding)

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/district-attorney-fanni-willis-can-be-potentially-removed/