Charles McGonigal's arrest should make Jared very nervous

[babylonsister]

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Charles McGonigal's arrest should make Jared very nervous
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Saturday January 28, 2023 · 1:30 PM EST
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So far, news of the bombshell arrest of Charles McGonigal, the former FBI special agent, has focused on his central role in events leading up to the 2016 election. That connection is stunning, to be sure.

But there is another issue raised by McGonigal's arrest that hasn't drawn nearly as much attention. At least it has not yet, but it may prove even more pivotal to bringing down the Trump crime syndicate. And that's McGonigal's curious association with the desperate attempts by Jared Kushner, and his father, Charles, to rescue an upside-down investment in 666 (now 660) 5th Avenue.

A little background. Kushner Properties bought the iconic Midtown property for a record $1.8 billion in 2007, just before the 2008 crash. About $1.3 billion purchase was financed, and the property was almost instantaneously hemmoraging big money. Some estimates valued the building at well less than half of the purchase price.

Remarkably, after years of failed efforts (including overtures to a Chinese company), the Kushners finally were able to sell a 99 year lease on the building to a company called Brookfield Asset Management in August 2018, with funding supplied by Qatar's sovereign wealth fund. The $1.2-billion lease payment for all 99 years was paid up front, allowing the Kushners to get the finance monkeys off their backs. Phew!

Crucially, after McGonigal retired from the FBI in September 2018, he was hired as senior vice president for security by none other than Brookfield... the company that saved the Kushners' asses.

Below is a link to a fascinating timeline of the Kushner/666 5th Avenue saga. It is an absolute must read. It long predates McGonigal's arrest, as it's nearly two years old.

But what you'll find is instructive and critically important, I think. Blackmail, unauthorized diplomacy, and more.

Now, a direct connection to none other than Charles McGonigal. Coincidence? It's just too crazy to be coincidence.

Stay tuned.

https://www.justsecurity.org/69094/timeline-on-jared-kushner-qatar-666-fifth-avenue-and-white-house-policy/
Timeline on Jared Kushner, Qatar, 666 Fifth Avenue, and White House Policy

[tanyev]

1. I'm not convinced Jared has a fully functioning limbic system.

[Duppers]

43. Good call - he fits right in with that family.

[Carlitos Brigante]

2. If it did. How could we tell? He always looks like he's "waiting for the poison to kick in" when

standing next to a human being.

[AllaN01Bear]

3. i found that the old 5th ave address most fascinating 666.

hope they get jar head.

[niyad]

4. Don't forget that ronnie had his house address changed from 666 St. Cloud Rd

to 668 St. Cloud.

cracks me up, as 666 is the sacred number of the Goddess. Chartres Cathedral is 666 feet long.

[FoxNewsSucks]

10. Ronald Wilson Reagan 6 6 6

Probably just a coincidence

[niyad]

39. Shhhhh. We are not supposed to notice.

[OhNo-Really]

23. It's all out there. Maybe FBI counterintelligence can follow the breadcrumbs

https://money.cnn.com/2018/08/03/news/companies/kushner-666-fifth-avenue-brookfield/index.html

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/israeli-saudi-and-emirati-officials-privately-pushed-for-trump-to-strike-a-grand-bargain-with-putin

https://bipartisanreport.com/2019/02/19/whistleblower-report-unravels-jared-kushners-saudi-nuclear-scheme/

And now
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/exclusive-brookfield-explores-sale-of-stake-in-nuclear-firm-westinghouse-sources-2021-04

[Hermit-The-Prog]

24. I'm not sure the current FBI could follow a railroad track while riding a flatcar on it.

[niyad]

5. There was much discussion here on DU about that billion dollar bailout at the

time. Now it looks to be even dirtier than we thought.

[mopinko]

6. i think a lot of ppl should be nervous.

this should be a fun drip drip drip kind of story for YEARS.

[Botany]

7. But didn't the money that paid off Kushner's 1.3 really come from MBS/Saudi Arabia via Qatar and ...

.... in thanx for paying off his debt on the property @ 666 5th Ave Kushner gave up classified information
(Presidential Daily Brief which he should not have been allowed to have) about the Washington Post's reporter
Khashoggi to MBS? After which MBS had Khashoggi cut up alive @ the Saudi Embassy in Istanbul.



And look who is in the background when Putin and MBS are high 5ing each other.

[robbob]

8. He got the look of a jealous lover

who barely holding in an inappropriate outburst…

[Botany]

14. Always remember the most important parts of the Steele Dossier wasn't the pee pee* tapes that .....

... Putin got of Donny in 2013 when he was in Russia for his Miss Universe pageant but that Donny
and Kushner too were way deep into debt to not only Russia but Saudi Arabia and China too. To me
it looks like Donny is nervous around his real bosses.


* in early spring of 2013 TFG and some of the exact same Russians who met up in Trump Tower
in June of 2016 went to "night club" in Las Vegas that featured water sports shows. I think through
those Russians Vlad learned of TFG's proclivity for golden showers and set him up when he came to
Russia later that year.

[KPN]

15. Yeah, his covetous, resentful eyes are laser beam locked on the 2 of them

[wnylib]

16. Good description.

[yorkster]

18. He had that same look when Melania was "greeting" Justin Trudeau, iirc.

[Blue Owl]

44. Oh dahlink... tells me evedything....

[yorkster]

46. Your title has me chuckling...

even tho' I'm off to the dentist in a few minutes.

That photo was taken at the perfect moment and of course the zooming in adds to the effect. And orange McGrumpyface trying to mask his inner mad.

[yonder]

38. Proof that a picture DOES say a thousand words.

[DENVERPOPS]

26. Someone out there should compose a book

of these special photos......

I would suggest including the photo of the five of our senators?/house members? at a luncheon in Russia with Putin on July Fourth...

Or the one of that Female Green Party Presidential candidate, having dinner with a group of Russian Politicians/Oligarchs.

(I cannot remember her name, she was a Doctor? in Washington? or Oregon?..... but it was more than obvious she ran for president to do nothing more than steal away/divert voters from Hillary....)

[Botany]

29. Putin has declared war on America with what he has done in his rat fucking our election

[DENVERPOPS]

30. BINGO BOTANY

Thank you, thank you, thank you.........

[DENVERPOPS]

31. Can you come up with the pic

of the Republican Politicians, in Russia, on OUR national holiday, July fourth, having lunch of dinner with Putin??????

[Botany]

34. Google "the moscow 8"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/eight-republicans-spent-july-4-in-russia-where-are-the-fireworks/2018/07/06/beae30be-812e-11e8-b658-4f4d2a1aeef1_story.html

[DENVERPOPS]

35. Great, thanks

Pelosi had it right when she said: ALL ROADS LEAD TO PUTIN

And Hillary: THERE IS A GIANT RIGHT WING CONSPIRACY....

[Botany]

32. And this Mother Fucker, Jack Hanick, a former Fox News Exec and Sean Hannity Producer was @ a

... party in Moscow on election night 2016 celebrating Trump's "win."

?w=1200&ssl=1

Russia is way deep into the American right wing.

[DENVERPOPS]

37. EXCELLEN BOTANY

Pelosi had it right when she said: ALL ROADS LEAD TO PUTIN

And Hillary: THERE IS A GIANT RIGHT WING CONSPIRACY....

[Jarqui]

9. This McGonigal case should be a much bigger deal in the media

So should the one where Barr was messing with Durham.

I guess the US media oligarchs are not as enthusiastic ...

[Kid Berwyn]

13. Exactly. The nation's owners don't want certain things mentioned.

Like how much of US foreign and domestic policies benefit the rich, meaning, themselves.

[DENVERPOPS]

27. At the beginning of our Democracy

Some Frenchman? stated:

"Democracy will work until some people, some political group, or some business realizes that they can vote themselves money."......

or something like that...........

Any one out there remember who the french guy was, and what the exact quote was that he made at the time???????

[Kid Berwyn]

33. Could it be De Tocqueville?

“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money”

-Alexis De Tocqueville

[DENVERPOPS]

36. BINGO! THX KB.........NC

[uponit7771]

25. +1,

[underpants]

11. Jared's a moron. Great timeline.

Jared takes the $800 M made from the sale of his dad’s company and throws the whole thing back on the table on one bet.

[FoxNewsSucks]

12. I doubt he's too worried. Bonesaw Arabia's $2 Billion will buy a lot of good lawyers for him.

[Mr.Bill]

28. The last I heard work on Jared and Ivanka's home

in Florida hasn't gotten underway. Maybe they are planning to go live somewhere else. Somewhere with a much warmer climate. If anyone in the Trump family fears prison, it would be Jared.

[FakeNoose]

17. Great post and fascinating to learn about this

What I don't get is - What did Qatar get out of this deal?

Sure they have scads of oil money but Qatar is no friend to the Saudi royal family, nor are they allied to the USA in any way. Were they so desperate to lease a property on 5th Avenue, Manhattan that they were willing to sink $1.6 billion into a loser? Hell they could have bought one of Chump's buildings.

How did Kushner package this so that it was interesting to Qatar? I'm guessing that other promises were made that weren't in the Kushner family's purview. Like maybe ... a few state secrets from the US govt. here and there ... or a dossier of top secret documents maybe?

[NoMoreRepugs]

19. Good question, we can only hope the powers that might suppress that info

aren’t insurmountable.

[OhNo-Really]

22. Dots - Qatar - Carter Page 2017/Qatar 2018

2017. Business Insider reports:

Memos: CEO of Russia's state oil company offered Trump adviser, allies a cut of huge deal if sanctions were lifted

“…. Editors note: They were allegedly offered the brokerage of the 19% stake, whose purchase by the QIA and Glencore was ultimately facilitated by Gazprombank.”

https://www.businessinsider.com/carter-page-trump-russia-igor-sechin-dossier-2017-1?op=1

2018 - Reuters reports

“ LONDON/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Qatar is taking a nearly 19 percent stake in Rosneft ROSN.MM, rescuing the Russian oil major from its stalled deal to sell a major stake to China's CEFC.

QIA would control an equity stake of 18.93 percent and Glencore would hold some 0.57 percent.”

“ "Sechin's associate said that the Rosneft president was so keen to lift personal and corporate western sanctions imposed on the company, that he offered Page and his associates the brokerage of up to a 19 per cent (privatised) stake in Rosneft," the dossier said. "In return, Page had expressed interest and confirmed that were Trump elected US president, then sanctions on Russia would be lifted."

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-rosneft-qatar-idUSKBN1I527G

Allegedly, Qatar was also largest holder of Glencore

Allegedly, according to the above-cited articles, Page Et Al Investment firm is reported to have earned 19% commission of the sale of a bit less than a 20% stake of Rosneft something something US sanctions.

[Uncle Joe]

20. and from October - December of 2018

Jared Kushner advised Saudi prince on how to 'weather' Khashoggi slaying, report says

President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner has been a promoter of Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman since the early days of the administration and recently offered the prince advice on how to handle the outrage over the slaying of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, The New York Times reported Saturday.

Kushner, 37, who serves as Trump's adviser on the Middle East, has kept up informal conversations with the prince, 33, since early 2017, the Times reported, citing unnamed sources. Three former senior officials told the paper that the politically inexperienced Kushner's private chats with Mohammed could have made him "susceptible to Saudi manipulation."

Khashoggi was killed on Oct. 2 by Saudi agents at the country's consulate in Istanbul. Although the administration has played down reported evidence linking the slaying to the prince and cautioned lawmakers not to take action against Saudi Arabia in response to the killing, senators say U.S. intelligence reports clearly implicate the crown prince.

(snip)

After the killing, Kushner "became the prince’s most important defender inside the White House," the Times reported.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/12/09/jared-kushner-advised-saudi-prince-after-khashoggi-murder-report-says/2257098002/

I haven't done much research yet but I wonder whether Khashoggi was reporting on Kushner's connections/malfeasance and whether that is what led to his murder?

Thanks for the thread babylonsister

[republianmushroom]

21. like it

Hope so, but doubt it will

[Skittles]

40. but...but....WHAT ABOUT HUNTER BIDEN'S LAPTOP

[SunSeeker]

41. K & R for exposure.

[samplegirl]

42. Great Post

K & R

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

45. Seems like everyone associated with TFG is a criminal.

Seems like a Helluva lot of Rs are too.

[AverageOldGuy]

47. I'm not holding my breath

Remember: Merrick Garland, US Attorney General, would have to approve any charges against Jared.

You see, I served 30 years in the Army, including two tours in Vietnam, retired in 1995. I've pretty much lost faith in the whole system and am looking into moving permanently to Europe, likely Switzerland.

[lindysalsagal]

48. Liars, cheaters, theives. And their goons: the gqp.