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EXCLUSIVE Charles McGonigal sends top FBI bosses into a frenzy as they're now trawling through 22 years of high-level investigations for fear they were compromised by convicted bureau spy
Daily Mail ^ | 1/27/24 | Greg Woodfield

Posted on 01/27/2024 1:22:27 PM PST by Libloather

Anxious FBI chiefs are trawling through 'numerous' top-level investigations spanning 22 years for fear they were compromised by convicted bureau spook Charles McGonigal, DailyMail.com can reveal.

The forensic clean-up operation ranges over the entire time the philandering former head of counterintelligence in New York worked for the agency.

McGonigal, 55, has already been sentenced to four years and two months in prison for taking money and conspiring with a sanctioned Russian oligarch who is a crony of despot President Vladimir Putin.

But the full possible repercussions of his treachery are outlined in a sentencing memorandum by the US government for another case in Washington DC, where he will be sentenced on February 16.

Prosecutors are demanding he gets another 30 months jail time and a $95,000 fine for hiding $225,000 in cash he received from an Albanian intelligence official.

And they reveal in the January 5 filing – obtained by DailyMail.com – that the FBI is so worried about McGonigal's deceit that 'sensitive' cases dating back to when he became a special agent are being minutely scrutinized.

The memorandum says: 'Given the defendant's senior and sensitive role in the organization, the FBI has been forced to undertake substantial reviews of numerous other investigations to insure that none were compromised during the defendant's tenure as an FBI special agent and supervisory special agent.

'The defendant worked on some of the most sensitive and significant matters handled by the FBI.'

The filing further warns: 'His lack of credibility, as revealed by his conduct underlying his offense of conviction, could jeopardize them all.

'The resulting internal review has been a large undertaking, requiring an unnecessary expenditure of substantial governmental resources.'

Married McGonigal joined the FBI in 1996 and started his career working on the investigation into the TWA flight 800 disaster...

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; History; Local News
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Top men? Doesn't Cankles still have some of those files?
1 posted on 01/27/2024 1:22:27 PM PST by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Good. Now go after Scott Ritter and Doug Macgregor.


2 posted on 01/27/2024 1:26:39 PM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: Libloather

4 years, and most of the convicted Jan 6 folks got 5-25 years?


3 posted on 01/27/2024 1:28:40 PM PST by silent majority rising (When it is dark enough, men see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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To: Libloather
TRUMP-RUSSIA COLLUSION!!!

FIB-RUSSIA COLLUSION!!!

4 posted on 01/27/2024 1:43:58 PM PST by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: Libloather

Is this the noble stereotype Sean Hannity always extolls?


5 posted on 01/27/2024 1:51:06 PM PST by Honest Nigerian
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To: Honest Nigerian

They exist, they just don’t make it into command (SES) positions in a significant numbers anymore.


6 posted on 01/27/2024 1:56:16 PM PST by Reily (!!)
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To: Libloather

Based on the unethical, and criminal behavior of the FBI these past 7 years, I’m sure the majority of the cases the FBI investigated in the past were compromised.


7 posted on 01/27/2024 2:11:47 PM PST by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: Libloather
McGonigal, 55, has already been sentenced to four years and two months in prison for taking money and conspiring with a sanctioned Russian oligarch.

Wow, 4 hole years for being a spy in the FBI for 22 years and jeopardizing dozens of cases.

He's lucky and grateful he wasn't near the capital on Jan-6. Or was he?

8 posted on 01/27/2024 2:16:54 PM PST by usurper (AI was born with a birth defect.)
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To: Libloather

“...McGonigal joined the FBI in 1996 and started his career working on the investigation into the TWA flight 800 disaster...”

So he had early exposure to the Bureau kowtowing to corrupt politicians and suppressing investigations as instructed. I wonder whether McGonigal turned due to disgust with our corrupt system, or if he was fine with it, but got busted for not handing ten pecent to the Big Guy.


9 posted on 01/27/2024 2:35:02 PM PST by Chewbarkah
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To: Libloather

“sentenced to four years and two months in prison for taking money and conspiring with a sanctioned Russian oligarch who is a crony of despot President Vladimir Putin.”

That’s some dramatic writing going on there. “Oligarch”, “crony”, “despot...”

Quite emotional.


10 posted on 01/27/2024 2:42:08 PM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI)
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To: Reily
They exist, they just don’t make it into command (SES) positions in a significant numbers anymore.

I see no evidence whatsoever that they exist at all. Do you think it was SES folk to basically stole everything from those safe deposit boxes which has been in the news of late?

I'd be very surprised if they weren't just 'rank and file' scumbags that infest the agency from top to bottom. I'd be surprised if there were 5 honest men in the entire organization.

11 posted on 01/27/2024 9:36:27 PM PST by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: Libloather

Author Peter Lance wrote about DeVecchio’s lawlessness in “Cover-Up”. Lance’s book contains the actual FBI documents proving that the Clinton DOJ suppressed evidence that convicted 1993 World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef was planning to blow up a commercial airliner in the United States from prison in 1996 through communications with his associates when TWA 800 exploded in July 1996 over Long Island. The reason for the suppression, Lance argues, is that the witness against Yousef was a prisonmate named Greg Scrapa, Jr., and the Clinton DOJ did not want to give Scarpa any credibility because Scarpa was telling people about corrupt FBI agents in NY and the Clinton DOJ did not want those FBI agents prosecuted and did not want the possible unraveling of gangland convictions that had been obtained, even though it appeard that some of those convictions were wrong. 9/11 Commissioner and Clinton appointee, Jamie Gorelick participated in the supression and never told the FAA that investigated TWA 800 or the 9/11 Commission that investigated terrorism leading to 9/11 about the possible link between Yousef and TWA 800.
Again, I urge everybody to read Lance’s books, “Cover-Up” and the previous book, “1,000 Years for Revenge”.

A slightly different story with some important facts is here: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/N/NY_MOB_FBI_AGENT_BAOL-?SITE=WABCAM

1 posted on 3/30/2006, 11:11:49 PM by AJFavis


12 posted on 01/27/2024 10:54:20 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: zeugma

Whatever


13 posted on 01/28/2024 4:13:44 AM PST by Reily (!!)
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To: mass55th
these past 7 years

Seven years? The FIBs have been a crooked unethical outfit starting with that old cross dresser Hoover. Look at how many of these criminals with badges were involved in the Whitey Bulger case.

I bet a diligent researcher with access to the Lexus/Nexus data base could write an encyclopedias worth of articles on these bums.

14 posted on 01/28/2024 4:37:49 AM PST by metesky ("Leave us go amongst them." - Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton- Ward Bond, The Searchers)
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To: metesky

In the case of Bulger he was smarter then his FBI handlers. Instead of being recruited by the the FBI and manipulated. He allowed himself to be recruited and manipulated the FBI. Used the FBI to take down his criminal rivals. Not all criminals are drooling morons a few are indeed Professor Moriarty. Bulger was one such criminal.


15 posted on 01/28/2024 4:47:08 AM PST by Reily (!!)
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To: Libloather

Who’s going to get punished for spying on us?


16 posted on 01/28/2024 2:21:17 PM PST by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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