Jan. 26, 2023 - Epoch Times
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| There was just a shocking plot twist in the never-ending Spygate story. | |
| One of the FBI special agents who several years ago was investigating alleged Trump-Russia collusion was himself just indicted for Russian collusion. | |
| Let me repeat that. | |
| One of the leading FBI special agents in the Trump-Russia collusion case, in fact, he was one of the agents who initially investigated the claims in the first place, well, he was just arrested by the Department of Justice for actual Russian collusion. | |
| The FBI agent's name is Charles McGonigal, and the charges against him include, among several other things, laundering the money for and doing the bidding of a sanctioned Russian billionaire named Oleg Deripaska. | |
| And this FBI agent was allegedly doing this. | |
| He was allegedly taking these actions at the very same time that he was supervising the FBI's investigations into Russian billionaires. | |
| Now, let me back up for a quick moment and set the stage for you properly here on what actually took place and what is stated in this criminal filing. | |
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| Now, to start at the beginning, you likely remember that soon after the 2016 presidential race, it was revealed that the FBI was investigating President Trump for alleged ties to the Russian state, their infamous crossfire hurricane investigation. | |
| And the reason that you likely remember it is because it was the number one covered news item for the first two full years of Trump's presidency. | |
| Meaning, despite the fact that these allegations eventually were proven to be false, well, President Trump's entire first two years in office, the entire first two years of his presidency were spent being under FBI investigation, as well as under 24-7 assault from the news media who painted him as essentially a Russian asset. as well as under 24-7 assault from the news media And one of the FBI special agents involved in this whole affair was Mr. | |
| Charles McGonigal. | |
| Back in 2016, Charles was the section chief of the Cyber Counterintelligence Coordination Section at FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C. And according to both emails and text messages, which were released over the past several years, they show that Special Agent Charles was involved in the FBI investigations against two members of Trump's campaign, both George Papadopoulos as well as Carter Page. | |
| And so, without getting too much into the weeds, because that's a very deep story in and of itself, the point here is that Special Agent Charles McGonigal was right there, at the very center of the FBI's investigation, when they just began their probe into Trump's alleged ties with Russia. | |
| But that wasn't the only thing that he was involved in. | |
| He was also deeply involved in the FBI's investigations into Russian oligarchs. | |
| Here's a timeline. | |
| In 2014, President Obama issued something known as Executive Order 13660, which declared a national emergency with respect to the situation happening at the time in Ukraine. | |
| And according to the Justice Department, here's what that meant in practical terms. | |
| Quote, Essentially, this was a U.S. directive to put Russian oligarchs in Vladimir Putin's inner circle on the sanctions list. | |
| Then you fast forward a few years, and in 2018, when Special Agent Charles McGonigal was in charge of the FBI's counterintelligence division in New York, he both supervised and participated in the FBI's investigations of Russian oligarchs. | |
| And those investigations, very notably, included an investigation into Mr. | |
| Olag Deripaska, who was eventually placed on the U.S. sanctions list. | |
| But being a shrewd Russian oligarch, Mr. | |
| Deripaska apparently had a secret weapon. | |
| He had two sympathetic FBI agents. | |
| Here's how the indictment from the Department of Justice described what happened next. | |
| While working at the FBI, McGonigal supervised and participated in investigations of Russian oligarchs, including Deripaska. | |
| In 2019, McGonigal and Shestakov, and for your reference, Shestakov is another FBI agent, they both worked on behalf of Deripaska in an unsuccessful effort to have the sanctions against Deripaska lifted. | |
| Then in 2021, McGonagall and Shestikov conspired to provide services to Deripaska. | |
| Specifically, following their negotiations with an agent of Deripaska, McGonagall and Shestikov agreed to and did investigate a rival Russian oligarch in return for concealed payments from Deripaska. | |
| Now, just to pause here for a super quick moment, what this indictment is alluding to is the fact that this special agent, who himself was the one investigating within the FBI, these Russian oligarchs, he left the FBI and began to get paid by one of those Russian oligarchs in order to do several things. | |
| To one, try to get him off of the sanctions list, and also to investigate and also to dig up dirt on a rival Russian oligarch. | |
| Now, notably, this statement doesn't actually say which oligarch, who was the rival Russian oligarch, But what appears to have been happening is that Deripaska and this other oligarch were having a dispute over some Russian company. | |
| And it's not exactly clear which specific Russian company, but they were having a dispute. | |
| And so what Deripaska did was that he paid Special Agent Charles, through a bunch of different shell companies, to investigate his rival, to find out whether this rival had any hidden assets outside of the country, meaning outside of Russia, whether he had any non-Russian passports, And to basically dig up as much dirt using his FBI connections as he could on this rival Russian billionaire. | |
| And so it was very obvious that Special Agent Charles knew that this was illegal, not only because he was at the FBI when the decision to put Deripaska on the sanctions list was made, but also in their internal emails back and forth. | |
| Instead of referring to him by name, he only referred to him as, quote-unquote, the big guy and, quote-unquote, the client. | |
| And it looks like this particular big guy got a lot more than just 10%. | |
| Regardless, though, the indictment actually goes further and lays out how Special Agent Charles, while he was still working at the FBI, again, while he's in the FBI in the year 2018, he was introduced to this agent of Deripaska, and then subsequently, he helped to get the daughter of this agent placed into the Counterterrorism and Intelligence Unit within the NYPD. Quote, In 2018, while McGonigal was still working for the FBI, Shestakov introduced him to a former Soviet and Russian diplomat who functioned as an agent for Deripaska. | |
| The person is not named in court papers, but the Justice Department says he was rumored in public media reports to be a Russian intelligence officer. | |
| Shestakov asked McGonigal for help getting the agent's daughter an internship in the New York Police Department's counterterrorism and intelligence units. | |
| McGonigal agreed, prosecutors say, and told a police department contact that, quote, I have an interest in her father for a number of reasons. | |
| A police sergeant then subsequently reported to the NYPD and the FBI that the woman, I guess the daughter, claimed to have an unusually close relationship with an FBI agent whom, she said, had given her access to confidential FBI files. | |
| Now that is, if nothing else, amazing. | |
| This FBI agent who was investigating Trump's alleged collusion ties with Russia was himself doing all this behind the scenes, doing the bidding of a Russian billionaire and even getting the daughter of the agent of the Russian billionaire placed into the counterterrorism and intelligence unit within the NYPD. Now, of course, I will mention that this is an indictment, and everyone in this country is, of course, presumed innocent until proven guilty, and so just keep that in mind. | |
| But there is one other piece of the puzzle that I failed to mention, which is that during the Operation Crossfire Hurricane, the FBI's investigation into President Trump, Oleg Deripaska was himself an actor in that whole collusion narrative. | |
| That's because Deripaska had a close relationship with Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, and he also had ties to the former British spy Mr. | |
| Christopher Steele, who was the author of his Steele dossier, which was essentially the linchpin that launched Russiagate in the first place. | |
| And so, there you have it. | |
| Mike Pence criticizes President Trump for keeping classified documents, but he himself has classified documents in his home. | |
| Joe Biden criticizes President Trump for a quid pro quo with Ukraine while he himself withheld a billion dollars from Ukraine in order for his demands to be met. | |
| And now, this FBI agent investigates President Trump for alleged collusion with Russia while he himself is colluding with a Russian billionaire. | |
| you sometimes quite literally can't make these things up. | |
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| Lastly, I'd love to know your thoughts, because we know about this basically because this particular Russian billionaire was on the sanctions list, and so it was very overtly illegal what was happening here. | |
| However, how many FBI agents and other people within our government do you think are on the take from, let's say, Chinese... | |
| How many of them are receiving these payments and doing the bidding of these billionaires, but are just not getting caught because those particular billionaires are not on the sanctions list? | |
| Do you think that this is just the tip of the iceberg? | |
| Please leave your thoughts in the comments. | |
| I'll be reading them later tonight, as well as throughout the week and into the weekend. | |
| And then, until next time, I'm your host, Roman from The Epoch Times. |
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