FBI Chief Behind "Trump-Russia Collusion" Gets 4 Years In Prison For Colluding With Russian 2023-12-20 01:42

in a turn of events which is so wild that it almost sounds like it's the plot for some movie well a former top FBI official who played a key role in the Trump Russia collusion investigation well he himself was just sentenced to four years in prison because he was actually colluding with a Russian billionaire furthermore those four years behind bars might only be the beginning given the fact that the same FBI official is facing another set of indictments for hiding $225,000 in payments that he received from an Albanian intelligence officer again if you wrote this into the script of a movie it would just sound too ridiculous to be believable the FBI agent who was investigating Trump for alleged Russian collusion which is of course fake is now himself in prison for colluding with Russians now the man in question is this man right here Mr Charles mgal and he was a top FBI official who previously led the FBI's New York Counter Intelligence Division and back in January of this year in January of 2023 Mr mcgonagal was arrested and slapped with two separate sets of IND IND Ms the first set of indictments was related to the secret Albanian money that case is still ongoing while the second set of indictments was related to Mr mcanal taking bribes from one Russian billionaire in order to investigate a rival Russian billionaire that second indictment a Charged Mr mcgonagal with several different counts including conspiracy to evade us sanctions moneya laundering conspiracy to commit moneya laundering as well as conspiracy to violate federal law against doing business with sanctioned individuals Mr mgal pled guilty to these charges and just 4 days ago he was sentenced to 4 years in prison as well as a fine of $440,000 however it's really the details in this case which make it wild so let's go through them together right after you take a super quick moment to smash those like And subscribe buttons so this video can reach ever more people via the YouTube algorithm now to start at the beginning you likely remember that soon after the 2016 presidential election it was revealed that the FBI was investigating president Trump for his alleged ties to Russia that was 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 years of Trump's presidency meaning despite the fact that these allegations turned out to be patently false president Trump's first two years in office they were spent being under FBI investigation as well as under 24-hour assault from the news media who painted him to the entire country and the entire world as being a Russian asset and one of the FBI special agents who was involved in this whole Affair was Mr Charles mcgonagal back in 2016 Charles was the the section chief of the Cyber Counter Intelligence coordination section over at FBI headquarters and according to emails and text messages which were released over the past several years well they show that special agent Charles mcgonagal he was intimately involved in the FBI investigations against Trump from their very inception for instance this back and forth internal communication from within the FBI it shows that Mr mcle was the FBI's recipient of the quote unquote tip which supposedly started the whole Trump Russia investigation in the first place and without getting too much into the weeds here the point is that special agent Charles mcgonagal he was right there at the very center of the FBI's investigation when they began their probe into Trump's alleged ties with Russia he was right there at the center but that wasn't the only thing that Mr mcanal was involved in besides the Trump prob 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 and this declared a national emergency with respect to the situation that was then happening in Ukraine according to the justice department this is what this meant in Practical terms quote to address this National Emergency the president blocked all property of individuals determined by the US Treasury to be responsible for or complicit in actions or policies that threaten the security sovereignty or territorial Integrity of Ukraine or who materially assist sponsor or Provide support to individuals or entities engaged in such activities essentially this was a directive to put the Russian oligarchs who were within Putin's Inner Circle on the sanctions list then you fast forward a few years and in 2018 when special agent Charles mcgonagal was in charge of the FBI's Counter Intelligence Division in New York well he both supervised as well as participated in the FBI's investigations of Russian oligarchs those investigations included ol derasa a Russian oligarch who was eventually placed on the US sanctions list however being a shrewd Russian oligarch Mr derasa apparently had a secret weapon two sympathetic FBI agents here how the indictment from the justice department described what took place quote while working at the FBI mgal supervised and participated in investigations of Russian oligarchs including derasa in 2019 mogal and shestov shestakov is another FBI agent they both worked on behalf of derasa in an unsuccessful effort to have the sanctions against derasa lifted in 2021 mgal and shestov conspired to provide services to derap pasca specifically following their negotiations with an agent of derap pasca mcgonagal and shestov agreed to and did investigate a rival Russian oligarch in return for concealed payments from derap pasca now just to pause here for a super quick moment what this indictment is alluding to is the fact that this FBI special agent who is himself the one in the FBI investigating these Russian oligarchs he left the FBI and he began to get paid by one of these very same Russian oligarchs in order to do several things to try and get that oligarch off the sanctions list and also to investigate and to dig up dirt on a rival Russian oligarch here was how the New York Times described the general situation quote Mr McGonagle's work on der pasa's behalf obscured by use of shell companies and subcontractors involved seeking information about Mr patan's business pannan was the other oligarch the ultimate goal prosecutors said was to cause sanctions to be placed on Mr panan potentially leveling the playing field with Mr derasa but the plot unraveled within months after the FBI sees Mr McGonagle's cell phone and as wild as all this is this collusion actually gets a lot deeper which we'll get into right after I introduce today's sponsor by showing you this little piece of money or rather I should say that this is fake money being printed into Oblivion by those Geniuses over in Washington DC and so before they completely obliterate your life savings what I recommend you do is to convert that fake money into real money which is physical gold 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this Russian billionaire Mr ol derasa did was that he paid Charles mcgonagal through a bunch of different subcontractors and shell companies to investigate his rival and to find out whether he had any hidden assets outside the country whether he had any non-russian passports and to basically use his FBI connections to dig up as much dirt as he could on this Russian billionaire rival and it was very obvious that Mr mcgonagal knew that what he was doing was illegal not only because he was at the FBI when the decision to put der Pasa on the sanctions list was made but also because in his internal chats mcgonagal would make a point of not using this Russian oligarchs real name instead in his emails he referred to him as the big guy and the client and well it looks like this particular big guy got a lot more than 10% regardless though the indictment actually goes a lot further and it lays out how Mr mcgonagal while still working at the FBI in 2018 was introduced to an agent of this Russian oligarch and then subsequently Mr mcanal helped to get this agent's daughter placed into the counterterrorism and intelligence unit within the NYPD quote in 2018 while mcgonagal was still working for the FBI shestakov introduced him to a former Soviet and Russian Diplomat who functioned as an agent for derap pasca that 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 according to the indictment shestakov asked magal for help getting the agent's daughter an internship in the New York Police Department's counterterrorism and intelligence units mogal agreed and told a Police Department contact that I have an interest in her father for a number of reasons according to the indictment a police Sergeant subsequently reported to the NYPD and the FBI that the woman claimed to have an unusually close relationship with an FBI agent whom she said had given her access to confidential FBI files and so in summary the FBI agent who was investigating Trump for colluding with Russia was doing all this behind the scenes he was colluding with one Russian oligarch to investigate another Russian oligarch while also getting the daughter of the oligarch agent placed inside the intelligence unit of the NYPD that is if nothing else amazing you sometimes really cannot make these things up regardless as I mentioned at the top of the episode Mr mcgonagal has now plad guilty and as of four days ago he has been sentenced to a 50 Monon long prison term alongside a $40,000 fine and if that sounds like a light sentence to you well here was the judge's rationale quote Judge Jennifer H Rearden said her sentence was designed to balance gal more than two decades as a law enforcement officer with the extremely serious nature of his crimes which she said threatened National Security which is perhaps an understatement to say the least if you'd like to go through the details of this entire story including the 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