Charles McGonigal, Deep State Double Agent in FBI

[BlueGreenLady]

Link to tweet

?s=20&t=2BnohVNS5PWYTauFczewzQ

[Walleye]

1. Well we knew they were there

[Kid Berwyn]

2. Dots connect bigly.

Retired Top FBI Counterintelligence Official Worked With Ex Russian Intelligence Officer Close to Deripaska, Foreign Agent Paperwork Reveals

Sergey Shestakov, a former senior Soviet official, registered as a Foreign Agent for a top aide to Oleg Deripaska.

Scott Stedman
Forensic News, Dec. 20, 2021

A former senior Soviet Foreign Ministry official in the U.S. filed as a Foreign Agent for a top aide to Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska, who has been described by the U.S. Senate as a key figure in the Kremlin’s malign influence operations.

The paperwork filed under the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) has raised numerous concerns from experts who have noted that the aide, Yevgenyi (Evgeny, Evgeniy) Fokin, has reportedly been flagged by the FBI as a former senior Russian intelligence official.

In addition, the filing raises questions about the involvement of a former senior FBI counterintelligence official who reportedly connected Fokin to a law firm and business intelligence consultants.

The FARA filing was first publicly spotted by Wendy Siegelman, an independent investigative journalist.

The Foreign Agent filing

On Nov. 29, 2021, Sergey Shestakov, the former Soviet diplomat, registered as a Foreign Agent for Fokin, the alleged former senior Russian intelligence official.

Though the filing is scarce on details, Shestakov stated that he enlisted Charles F. McGonigal, the FBI’s former top counterintelligence official in New York, to connect Fokin to the law firm Kobre & Kim as well as “business intelligence consultants” Spectrum Risk Solutions.

“Mr. Fokin has contacted me seeking professional assistance in the US, which have resulted in the retention of the law firm of Kobre & Kim and later and separately the business intelligence consultants Spectrum Risk Solutions,” Shestakov stated. “I acted in hope that my assistance would result in a facilitation fee from the US entities retained, and I have received such fees.”

Continues…

https://forensicnews.net/retired-top-fbi-counterintelligence-official-worked-with-ex-russian-intelligence-officer-close-to-deripaska-foreign-agent-paperwork-reveals/

[Hermit-The-Prog]

36. Put another dot on there for Moscow Mitch McConnell ...

Mitch McConnell’s Ties to Russian Oil Money

Mitch McConnell reportedly linked to Putin, Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska and Russian companies

[Kid Berwyn]

40. Weird how this doesn't resonate at CNNBCIABCBSFakeNoiseNutwork.

One would think Russian gangsters stuffing the pockets of Republicans would be news.

Glad you, DU and Swalwell are on the case.



MITCH MCCONNELL, RUSSIA SANCTIONS, AND RUSAL’S INVESTMENT IN KENTUCKY

The Moscow Project
July 31, 2019

Excerpt...

A bipartisan majority in the Senate tried to block Trump from weakening the sanctions, but McConnell protected Deripaska and Russia and torpedoed the bipartisan effort.

* In a rare bipartisan moment, Democrats were joined by eleven Republicans in an effort to block the deal and to enforce sanctions against Deripaska’s companies.

* However, McConnell came out forcefully for lifting the sanctions, making a floor speech “accusing Democrats of politicizing the sanctions.”

* McConnell and the remaining Senate Republicans prevented the bipartisan group from reaching the 60 vote threshold. The Trump administration officially lifted the sanctions in January 2019.

McConnell soon reaped his reward. Shortly after the sanctions were lifted, Rusal announced a massive investment in Kentucky, giving McConnell a political boost in a re-election year.

* Merely three months after the sanctions were lifted (April 2019), Rusal announced it would be investing $200 million into a Kentucky aluminum mill run by Braidy Industries, becoming a 40% stakeholder in the project.

* According to The Wall Street Journal, this mill would be “the largest new aluminum plant built in the U.S. in nearly four decades.”

* The deal was hardly a coincidence – the investment was made possible because former top McConnell staffers lobbied on behalf of Braidy Industries for the project.

* McConnell, it seems, had his eye on this project for a while. In August 2018, just months after Rusal was first sanctioned, McConnell spoke on the Senate floor about Braidy Industries, highlighting the jobs that the new aluminum mill would be bringing to Kentucky.

* The state of Kentucky invested $15 million in the project, which is expected to bring 550 jobs to the area.

Just last week, Robert Mueller told the American people that Russia is still interfering in the democratic process. In response to recent criticism of his continued efforts to block election security bills, McConnell complained about being “accused of ‘aiding and abetting’ the very man I’ve singled out as our adversary and opposed for nearly 20 years: Vladimir Putin.” But McConnell’s long pattern of protecting Trump and Russia speaks louder than his complaints.

Original link:

https://themoscowproject.org/dispatch/mitch-mcconnell-russia-sanctions-and-rusals-investment-in-kentucky/

Odd, the link is kaput. Here it’s on the Waybac Machine:

https://themoscowproject.org/dispatch/mitch-mcconnell-russia-sanctions-and-rusals-investment-in-kentucky/

[Hermit-The-Prog]

43. Cartoonists at the time took note:

[questionseverything]

45. Please add these last three posts to

The new op

Seth abrams breaking

It adds a lot of background that helps explain and show how long and deep the corruption goes

[Beetwasher.]

3. The River Runs Deep

[liberalla]

4. Well, well, well... shit.

This is what Seth Abramson was referencing.

[Brother Buzz]

15. Here are Seth Abramson's tweets unrolled - Dots need connecting, for sure

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1570511783978500097.html

[liberalla]

22. Thanks, I saw that in the other thread

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217162912

Seth is excellent.

[Danascot]

33. Part of the thread that relates to Charles McGonigal

17/ But the upshot—for the purposes of this kinda-brief thread—is that a QIA-backed company called Brookfield gave Kushner a ten-figure bailout in August 2018, as the Kushners were about to lose everything on a historically bad deal the historically business-clueless Kushner did.

18/ And now we’ve learned that one of the leading FBI investigators of Kushner in 2016, 2017, and 2018 jumped to a lucrative position at Brookfield right as it bailed out Kushner—and while in that role seems to have coordinated with the Kremlin lead on 2016 collusion, Deripaska.

[Brother Buzz]

39. Those are two good dots - There will be more

[dalton99a]

5. Fucking traitor

[TheRickles]

11. Thanks. Why the big CV gap between 1996-2014 (apart from 3 years for his MBA)???

[Meadowoak]

17. fry him

[mitch96]

18. I hate spies.. nt

[empedocles]

6. Flip potential?

[onecaliberal]

7. These agencies need to be purged of the cancer that is republicon.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

9. The cancer is weaponizing hate and fear, the remedy is hate speech laws.

Meet the hate heading without anti hate laws is tough sledding, the other side has an entire arsenal anti hate speech folks don’t have.

[onecaliberal]

10. Good luck passing those laws.

We allowed these people far too much rope. We have a thousand instances of conspiracy to overthrow the government by dump and his maladministration, yet not one of them is in prison almost two years on.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

12. Determination required, as many countries have such laws, no need for luck!

The ACLU, whom I love generally, really messed up efforts to add hate speech laws over the decades leading to….this.

[onecaliberal]

13. Do you see anyone determined to do this? I sure as hell don't.

[NJCher]

27. your post

shows a complete lack of comprehension on how investigation and prosecution works.

Hey, somebody call Merrick Garland and tell him onecaliberal has lost faith in his/her government.

[onecaliberal]

31. You have inferred A LOT of facts NOT in evidence.

Show me where I said any of that. Oh yeah you can’t, you’re just making wild assumptions. Enjoy the dust bin.

[NJCher]

35. they are in the investigatory phase

and you don't even see anyone taking the reins.

You speak of determination. News flash: the operative word is "methodical". Go look up the most successful trait in a human being. It's not determination: it is methodical.

Consequently, one most look at what evidence there is of "methodical" in both the investigation and the filings.

I've been an investigator and I can tell you that the more criminal your subject is, the more leads you develop and the more information/sources you have to track down. It can be very frustrating because it never seems to end. It's hard to end it because at every step, you find something even more criminal. A perfect example is what's been revealed here today: McGonigal.

Trump, a lifelong criminal, presents a dizzying array of crimes to explore and every single day we learn that the motive for these crimes is even worse than what was formerly thought.

Then come the filings and once again, due to the complexity of the law, it is very time consuming. Legal papers have to be written exactly right because if there is a violation in investigatory procedure, it can result in the entire case being thrown out. Think fruit of the poisoned tree (another legal concept--go look it up).

Determination: that's what you seem to want to think is indicative of success. You don't even have your priorities in order.

[orangecrush]

44. DAMN

[KPN]

51. Right?!

[iluvtennis]

8. tfg and his gang of thugs. 😤 n/t

[Lulu KC]

14. Wow!

This is enormous. Thanks for posting.

[calimary]

16. Well, there goes his cover.

Wonder how long before he turns up dead? He’s of no further use to his “bosses” now that he’s been exposed.

[Meadowoak]

19. the sooner, the better

[H2O Man]

20. Recommended.

The NYC nest.

[live love laugh]

21. My head's spinning 😵‍💫 all of this is overwhelming.

[NJCher]

29. was it Jamie Raskin

who calls trump a one-man crime wave?

Except the only problem with that description is that he says it's a wave, meaning it comes and goes intermittently.

Trump is a lifelong criminal. He doesn't know how to do things any other way.

And this is the person a significant portion of the United States elected: a lifelong criminal. Thanks, rubes! Thanks all you people who don't read.

[live love laugh]

34. Love the wave analogy: it's come, hoping it "goes" soon.

[Sogo]

23. I remember during 2016,

word went out that there was a group of FBI agents in the NY office that were working to prevent Hillary from being elected. It was claimed that they were threatening Comey with all kinds of "mischief," and they were the source of Guiliani's claims about "revelations" going to come out about Hillary spying on Trump.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/15/rudy-giuliani-2016-election-hillary-clinton-fbi-remarks-active-misunderstanding

[Unwind Your Mind]

48. I remember that too, nt

[Midnight Writer]

24. This is why Trump fired our Russian intelligence experts.

To give this guy (and maybe others) a clear road to operate.

[rubbersole]

25. The ruskies are really good at this shit.

They're thick in south Florida and mobby as hell. They aren't going to be leaving. Probably will be a tidal wave when pootie goes.

[LaMouffette]

26. Wow. The BIGGEST, most pernicious and damaging example of Republicon projection yet!

All this time, the extreme right, fueled by and promulgating QAnon conspiracies, has been accusing Democrats of being part of the "Deep State," and lo and behold, they're the ones who are Deep State.

Once again, whatever they start accusing us Dems of is exactly what they've been up to.

[LymphocyteLover]

32. Yes-- and there was some rightwing asshole pushing some new story about a deepstate mole who

was framing trump for Russiagate... I wonder if it was this guy, and typically they get the story all backwards.

[LaMouffette]

41. Yeah, and they show such an astonishing lack of imagination. I mean, c'mon, Repubes, can't you

for once accuse us of something you're not guilty of yourselves? Get a little creative or something???

I guess it's the ol' accuse them before they accuse you strategy, but I think they've done this so many times that we're ALL onto them now.

[hadEnuf]

28. The extemist right-wing & Republican corruption has infiltrated deeply into all kinds of government,

including the military, police and other agencies and their agenda is NOT public service. Many of us suspected this was happening years ago but we were routinely laughed at or called tin-foil hatters (not necessarily on this site), but here we are. Trump merely fast-tracked it.

I hope we get some indictments soon so these MAGATs can be exposed for what they are and then the process for removing these traitors from their positions can start in earnest.

[Farmer-Rick]

30. Wow, so many traitors.

Just a huge nest of people selling out America, democracy and the constitution. It seems to be what the GOP does best.

[Lars39]

37. And lest we forget, Deripaska's aluminum plant

connection to Kentucky and McConnell

[Jarqui]

38. So this guy appears to have helped hand Trump 2016 AND was in a position to

frustrate Mueller's investigation of Trump-Russia?

Do I have that correct?

And now he gets to potentially face judges like judge Cannon?

Makes my head spin

[Botany]

42. *Kushner* ran Trump-Russia collusion for Trump.

Link to tweet

6/ So understand that *any* news that links Kushner and Deripaska—let alone news like *this*, which also involves Deripaska’s co-lead on Trump-Russia collusion, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, *and* the unit of the FBI that helped Trump gain election in 2016—is historic.

7/ But this news... *this* news... is even more next-level, as it also implicates a series of financial transactions by Jared Kushner that have been at the heart of the Trump-Russia collusion investigation since (if you can believe it) the Steele Dossier dropped in January 2017.

snip

9/ The most controversial claim in the Dossier was never the pee-tape claim, as (a) all the evidence suggests something uncouth 100% happened at the Ritz Moscow in November 2013, but (b) even if it did occur, it didn’t involve Trump having sex and wouldn’t really prove collusion.

10/ Rather, the most controversial claim in the Dossier was that Trump in some fashion stood to gain from the December 2016 sale of a portion of the Kremlin-owned oil giant Rosneft. I still have trolls who know nothing about the Trump-Russia scandal trolling me over this in 2022.

snip

17/ But the upshot—for the purposes of this kinda-brief thread—is that a QIA-backed company called Brookfield gave Kushner a ten-figure bailout in August 2018, as the Kushners were about to lose everything on a historically bad deal the historically business-clueless Kushner did.

18/ And now we’ve learned that one of the leading FBI investigators of Kushner in 2016, 2017, and 2018 jumped to a lucrative position at Brookfield right as it bailed out Kushner—and while in that role seems to have coordinated with the Kremlin lead on 2016 collusion, Deripaska.


https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217162912

[GreenWave]

46. Chernyy Voron for you Mister!

черный ворон

[BlueIdaho]

47. The noose is tightening...

TFG is going to find his nuts in a vice

[burrowowl]

50. Hopefully!

[Blue Owl]

49. Donny Two Scoop's double agent

[Mr. Sparkle]

52. The New York FBI office is so corrupt

Back in 2015 they all fell in love for Clinton Cash book written by Breitbart News editor that turned out be complete BS.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/11/02/why-an-anti-clinton-book-from-breitbart-got-the-fbis-attention/

It is thought, it was them leaking stories about the FBIs misguided investigation into Hillary, in the run up the the election. I still cant believe they have gotten away with it.