Posted on 02/15/2023 11:06:17 PM PST by Libloather
The FBI’s reputation problems have accelerated with the arrest on corruption charges of Charles McGonigal, the former chief of counterintelligence for the FBI’s New York field office, one of the most powerful spy-hunters in the country - who also happened to be connected to Hunter Biden.
In twin indictments last month, McGonigal was charged with taking secret cash payments from a former Albanian intelligence officer, holding secret meetings with Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, and attempting to remove top Kremlin oligarch Oleg Deripaska from a US sanctions list.
The Albanians cited by prosecutors tie this scandal to Hunter Biden and the Chinese energy company CEFC that paid him and uncle Jim millions of dollars in a deal which Joe Biden was slated to join after his vice presidency ended.
According to prosecutors, McGonigal received $225,000 in cash in the fall of 2017 while he was the FBI’s counterintelligence chief in New York, from an Albanian former intelligence official, identified in the Albanian and European media as Agron Neza.
In turn, Neza introduced McGonigal to another well-connected Albanian, Dorian Ducka, who was an adviser to Rama and also worked for CEFC.
A photograph published last month in Albanian media sourced from China Daily in May 2017 shows Ducka standing with CEFC chairman Ye Jianming, who famously gave Hunter a 3.16-carat diamond estimated to be worth $80,000 in February 2017.
Ye also put Hunter on a $1 million legal retainer in mid-2017, which ultimately was paid to assist CEFC colleague Patrick Ho after his arrest.
Someone with the same unusual first name as Ducka appears in Hunter’s abandoned laptop in an email discussion about CEFC between Hunter and associates James Gilliar and Rob Walker.
“Dorian was a real help early on so we should consider how we include him,”...
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Seems like the FBI is looking for a soft landing... just like everyone else...Maybe if they burn this guy they can keep the facade going. We will know we have justice when they come clean on stealing the votes of the mothers and fathers whose children were killed in wars in the last 40 years. When we get straight answers on election fraud then there is a chance for grace and redemption... till then. We are in a struggle.
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They will need to come clean on the Trump/Russia Hoax too. Completely. With indictments.
I can’t figure your post out. More detail would help.
They are looking at nothing but keeping power. This is just another thing to hide or keep quiet on. They never admit mistakes or come clean on anything. Why would they start now?
The BIDEN CRIME FAMILY Is All over the WORLD!
LOL!
Was not this same office but different dept. that Cankles’ hard drive ended up and Weiner Boy was sent to prison soon after to shut him up about something else? They were and still are covering up all Huma’s secrets.
The place of McGonigal in the FBI heirarchy suggests to me there is too much corruption among so many highly placed FBI persons that it cannot be “reformed” - it has to be torn down and rebuilt, or torn down and let that be the end of it.
The president’s son is being investigated by the DOJ and a GOP-led House panel.
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