And notice the complete change of subject. I have always said if Hunter Biden has committed crimes then charge him arrest him, try him and if convicted put him in jail. Although the irony and hypocrisy just glares like the sun with treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans screaming their heads off about Hunter Biden's tax evasion but giving Trump a free pass on his as well as he and his family members raking in billions from foreign countries while they were in the White House and immediately after they left.


But we need to also keep track of the utterly false propaganda this thread was based on. That the arrest of McGonigals is connected to Hunter Biden as well. And what is that based on?

Well first this.

That "individual who had business interests in Europe and who had been an employee of a foreign intelligence service" referenced in the Department of Justice news release is alleged to be none other than Chi Ping Patrick Ho.


And then OMG Hunter Biden and McGonigals kids allegedly go to the same school. And the investigation of Ho was another investigation McGonigals was involved in.


Now the last two are just laughable. That proves absolutely nothing.

But it wold be worth looking into if McGonigals took money from Ho because there is a direct connection between Ho and Hunter Biden. But that is a lie. Ho is not the individual who paid McGonigals $250,000.

So at least so far there is nothing to connect Hunter Biden and McGonigals the false propaganda conspiracy theory this thread was based on.

But there are multiple direct connections between Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska McGonigals Trump, the Trump campaign, Mitch McConnell and treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans all of which were trying to help Deripaska or at least his companies get off the US sanctions list. And do business in the US.


But oh no its

HUNTER BIDEN HUNTER BIDEN HUNTER BIDEN. DON'T LOOK OVER HERE. LOOK OVER THERE ITS HUNTER BIDEN!!!!!!

 

Thats right stumbler.
Twirl and stamp and shout all you want.

If not for the protection of the FBI Hunter would almost certainly be in prison now.

And trump?
30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 investigations.
No criminal indictments.
None.
But you keep lying about that.

Shooter has provided sources connecting McGonigal to Hunter Biden solid enough to deserve closer investigation. Shooter is hopeful that the authorities will investigate.
Shooter is positive stumbler hopes any investigation of Hunter Biden continues to be delayed and buried so his chosen one is not smeared with his corruption.

We'll see, won't we?

 

I don't know what Hunter may have done that was illegal. If he's done anything worse than any other individual with the surname of a sitting president (any ideas?) then let's get him. Let's go after ALL the children of presidents. Don't forget Billy Beer.

 

And yet @toniter, you like all the wrong story/slate/MSNBC/CNN spew that gets slung around here.

 

That is incorrect.
Shooter said he preferred government and STEM sources, and looked at other media sources with skepticism.
We have little choice but to look at media for news, but we don't have to swallow it without question.

And you dodge the point; You seem to happily accept anything left leaning and ignore anything right leaning.

 

‘Rot in hell!’ Trump rages about 'deranged' investigations in Truth Social video binge

Brad Reed
January 27, 2023



Donald Trump speaking at the 2017 Conservative Political Action Conference. (Gage Skidmore/Flickr)


Former President Donald Trump on Friday posted several videos on his Truth Social platform, including one in which he angrily ranted about being investigated for his 2016 campaign's multiple contacts with Russian agents.

In the video, Trump called out Charles McGonigal, a former special agent in charge of counterintelligence in the FBI’s New York Field Office, who was arrested last week for his work helping Kremlin-aligned oligarch Oleg Deripaska try to evade sanctions.

"The FBI after me for the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax, long before my election as president, was just arrested for taking money from Russia, Russia, Russia!" Trump fumed. "May he rot in hell!"

In fact, there is no indication that McGonigal was the lead investigator into the Trump campaign's Russian ties.

READ MORE: George Santos pays tribute to Holocaust survivors after falsely claiming his grandparents fled Hitler

What's more, the oligarch whom McGonigal is accused of helping is the same oligarch whose deep ties to former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort created suspicions that Trump's campaign might have been directly working with Kremlin agents to sabotage Democratic rival Hillary Clinton's campaign.

A Senate Intelligence Committee report released in 2020 found that "Manafort's high level access and willingness to share information with individuals closely affiliated with the Russian intelligence services, particularly Kilimnik and associates of Oleg Deripaska, represented a grave counterintelligence threat."




https://www.rawstory.com/trump-fbi-2659320922/

 

New York FBI official busted for Russia ties was turned in by angry ex-lover: report

Matthew Chapman
January 27, 2023



FBI agent (AFP)


Retired FBI counterintelligence chief for the New York Office Charles McGonigal was arrested earlier this week and charged with violating U.S. sanctions against a Russian oligarch — one of the highest-ranking FBI officials in U.S. history to ever be charged with a crime.

And according to a new report by The Daily Beast on Friday, he was nailed in part because an angry ex-lover turned him in.

"In an interview with Insider, Allison Guerriero said she dated McGonigal for a year, unaware he was married," reported Rachel Olding. "He spent far more lavishly than an FBI salary would typically allow, she recalled, and she once found a bag of cash in his apartment. But after their fling ended, he revealed he was married and had no plans to leave his wife."

"She said she was so angry that, after a bout of drinking, she emailed his boss to disclose the affair as well as extensive dealings she’d noticed McGonigal had in Albania," the report continued. "It’s unclear what came of the email but the feds turned up on her doorstep three years later to ask her about McGonigal and some of her allegations regarding Albania appeared in last week’s indictment."

RELATED: ‘Rot in hell!’ Trump rages about 'deranged' investigations in Truth Social video binge

The indictment against McGonigal alleges he and a Russian-language court reporter named Sergey Shestakov tried to get Russian billionaire industrialist Oleg Deripaska off the U.S. sanctions list by forging documents and laundering money as part of an investigation into another Russian oligarch to conceal Deripaska as a source of certain payments. Deripaska also has ties to Paul Manafort, the former chairman of Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.

Following the arrest, Trump took to social media to wish McGonigal "rot in hell" and accuse him of fabricating the investigation into his connections to Russia around his first presidential campaign. McGonigal was made aware of some of the FBI's Russia investigation at the time, but there is no indication he was leading the investigation or fabricated anything.



https://www.rawstory.com/charles-mcgonigal-fbi/

 

I am beginning to suspect that the laughable Hunter Biden false propaganda this thread was started on is not just some stupid accident. It is looking more and more like kind of a preemptive stake to confuse and misdirect the real significance of Charlie McGonigal's arrest which is his connections to Trump and treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans.

And let me highlight something here. What may have been the biggest blow to Hillary Clinton's campaign was when James Comey said they were reopening the investigation just days before the election. That was the second time Comey had violated long standing DOJ policies. One being never comment on on going investigations and don't make any public announcements just prior to an election.

With two other oddities. One being Comey felt he had to make some kind of public statement because it was going to get leaked anyway and he didn't want it to appear the FBI was covering up for Clinton. And stranger still Comey was actually basing part of what he said and did on what he knew was Russian false disinformation.

And the question then and still remains is why was all that happening.

FBI agent — or Russian agent? What does Charlie McGonigal know about 2016?

Joe Conason
January 28, 2023



Male eye spying through a keyhole (Shutterstock)


The arrest of Charles McGonigal, chief of the FBI counterintelligence division in New York from October 2016 until his retirement in 2018, reopens festering questions about the troubled election that put Donald Trump in the White House. Among the crimes charged against McGonigal in two lengthy federal indictments is a secret financial relationship with Oleg Deripaska — a Russian oligarch close to dictator Vladimir Putin and associated with Paul Manafort, Trump's campaign manager, himself convicted of crimes and pardoned.


During his FBI career, McGonigal oversaw investigations of Deripaska and other oligarchs suspected of various crimes, including espionage. Now the exposure of his illegal connection with Deripaska may provide fresh insights into Trump's tainted victory.

On October 4, 2016, a month before Election Day, FBI director James Comey appointed McGonigal as special agent in charge of the FBI counterintelligence division in New York City, an exceptionally influential job that he took over at an extraordinarily sensitive moment. The bureau already had open investigations of both Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and her Republican adversary Trump. The Clinton investigation concerned "her emails," of course, and the Trump investigation involved his campaign's Russian connections.

What followed McGonigal's sudden ascent to power in the New York FBI office were two seemingly separate incidents, occurring days before the election, that had a fateful impact. On October 28, Comey sent a letter to the Congress publicly announcing that the bureau had resumed its investigation of Clinton due to the discovery of a laptop owned by former Rep. Anthony Weiner, whose spouse Huma Abedin was a top Clinton aide.

Months earlier the Justice Department months had cleared Clinton of any crime, but Comey violated Justice Department guidelines in accusing her of being neglectful about classified information, though it was later revealed that her emails contained no classified documents. (That means zero, zilch, nada, none, nothing.) But then Comey was driven to examine Clinton emails on the Weiner laptop.

Comey's announcement stopped the Clinton campaign's forward momentum and almost certainly cost her the election — even though the FBI director acknowledged on November 2, days before the election, that nearly all of the data on the Weiner laptop duplicated emails the FBI already had seen. None contained any damaging information. Just as Clinton was severely damaged among swing suburban voters, Trump's base voters were galvanized.

While Comey's broadside against Clinton stunned the nation, perhaps nobody should have been shocked. Trump crony Rudolph Giuliani —who for decades maintained a close relationship with Republican-leaning officials in the New York FBI office as the former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York — had repeatedly hinted on Fox News in the weeks before the election that the bureau was sitting on a "big surprise" that would vault his candidate to victory.

Meanwhile, on October 31, 2016, the New York Times published a front-page story on that other FBI investigation, known internally as "Crossfire Hurricane," which unlike her emails had gotten no public attention (and inspired no leaks). The headline was declarative and conclusive: "Investigating Donald Trump, F.B.I. Sees No Clear Link to Russia." That false story, exonerating Trump of Kremlin connections that we now know were extensive and incriminating, was pushed by Trump operatives and agents and clearly originated in the New York FBI counterintelligence division — which had played a key role in the beginning of Crossfire Hurricane. It quoted anonymous "law enforcement sources," which did not mean a local police lieutenant.

Before he moved on to other positions at FBI headquarters, McGonigal's career had begun in New York, where he worked closely with James Kallstrom — the right-wing ideologue who headed the New York office for decades. A bosom buddy of Giuliani and Trump, Kallstrom is suspected of leading the pressure campaign that induced Comey to reopen the Clinton investigation. The explicit threat of leaks by agents and former agents like Kallstrom, who reportedly hated Clinton, spurred Comey's disastrous decision and his public announcement, which again violated department policy against election interference.

Damning as those facts may seem, they only get us so far. There is much more to learn before we can understand the full story of 2016. The scrupulously nonpartisan presidential historian Michael Beschloss asked this week whether McGonigal's indictment will lead us closer to the truth. Will the prosecution of McGonigal reveal the details of his relationship with Deripaska, whom he had once investigated before becoming his corrupt stooge? Will Comey provide a full and honest accounting of what happened in the New York FBI office before the election? Will the New York Times examine — and disclose — how that misleading story about Trump and Russia appeared on its front page? Who briefed the Times for that bogus story?

With Trump seeking to return to the White House, the answers to those questions do not merely reckon with the past but are critical to democracy's future. The malign conspirators who first brought that would-be tyrant to power, both foreign and domestic, are still at large.


https://www.rawstory.com/charlie-mcgonigal/

 

Another bloviated page of nonsense from the resident despicable propaganda pusher.

It is hard to find a more ridiculous and outrageous conspiracy theory than to try and tie McGonigal to Trump.
McGonigal's report about one of Trump's people bragging about Russians having dirt on Hillary is what started the whole Trump/Russian thingy in the first place. Hillary grabbed the opportunity and paid a foreign agent to dig up dirt on Trump which was then used to spy on the Trump campaign and eventually Trump the President.

And this is the guy who despicable propaganda pusher would have us believe was somehow working with, or for, or on behalf of, Trump.

No, really. How low will they go, these despicables?

 

And what else can one say when MSN.com picks up the story linking McGonigal to Hunter Biden and runs with it, even quoting the Radaronline story?
New Emails Found On Hunter Biden's Laptop Link Embattled First Son To Wife Of Arrested Ex-FBI Agent Charles McGonigal (msn.com)

 

Well the first thing we have to do is click on your link and just see what it says. Because as usual the link you provided doesn't really say what you are trying to claim.


New Emails Found On Hunter Biden's Laptop Link Embattled First Son To Wife Of Arrested Ex-FBI Agent Charles McGonigal


A fresh cache of emails from Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop shows the embattled first son was once linked to the wife of ex-FBI agent Charles McGonigal, RadarOnline.com has learned.

In a sudden development to come after McGonigal was arrested on Saturday over allegations he helped a Russian oligarch, data from Hunter’s laptop shows both President Joe Biden’s son and McGonigal’s wife received the same emails related to a lacrosse program both parents’ daughters participated in.

According to the New York Post, both Hunter and Pamela McGonigal received at least 29 emails about the “Next Level Lacrosse program and other activities associated with the sport” between October 7, 2014 and May 7, 2015.

At the time of the emails, Hunter’s two daughters with ex-wife Kathleen Buhle – Finnegan, now 23, and Maisy, now 22 – played lacrosse for private the Washington, D.C. school Sidwell Friends.

It is currently unclear where the McGonigals’ daughter, Sarah, attended the same school at the time of the emails and if Sarah participated on the same lacrosse team as Hunter’s daughters Finnegan and Maisy.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/n...ed-ex-fbi-agent-charles-mcgonigal/ar-AA16LDVU


OMG yes yes yes what a smoking gun. Hunter Biden and McGonigals’ wife got come emails about a school program.



While in the meantime Oleg V. Deripaska is all over McGonigals and the FBI, Trump, the Trump campaign, and the treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans who laughed about Putin/Russia interfering in our elections and supported that by pushing the Putin false propaganda that the Obama Administration interfered in Israel's elections.



How an Oligarch May Have Recruited the FBI Agent Who Investigated Him

Rebecca Davis O'Brien
Sat, January 28, 2023 at 8:15 AM MST



Charles McGonigal, left, leaves Federal District Court in Manhattan, Monday, Jan. 23, 2023. (Jefferson Siege/The New York Times)
The FBI tried to recruit Oleg V. Deripaska, a Russian billionaire, as an informant around 2014, hoping he might shed light on organized crime and, later, possible interference in the presidential election.

A decade later, Deripaska may have turned the tables on the FBI: Prosecutors say the oligarch recruited one of the bureau’s top spy catchers, just as he entered retirement, to carry out work that they say violated U.S. sanctions.

The charges unsealed this week against Charles McGonigal — who ran the counterintelligence unit at the bureau’s New York field office and investigated Russian oligarchs, including Deripaska, according to the indictment — showed the extent of the oligarch’s reach into the highest levels of U.S. power.




There is no indication in the Manhattan indictment that McGonigal was working for Deripaska while still employed by the FBI. Still, the case — and a parallel indictment in Washington that charged McGonigal with receiving at least $225,000 in secret payments from a former employee of an Albanian intelligence service while still at the agency — has raised questions about how compromised he may have been.

Deripaska, an aluminum magnate, had been on the radar of U.S. authorities for years and remains under sanctions. He was known to be an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Treasury Department had reported he had ties to organized crime.

“Deripaska is a well-known man to anybody who follows Russia,” said Daniel Fried, a former U.S. ambassador to Poland and a former State Department official who helped craft sanctions against Russia. “I wouldn’t have accepted a luncheon invitation from the guy,” he added.

The implications of the allegations against McGonigal are alarming, Fried said. “In a broader sense, it does seem to suggest that the corrupting influence of the Russian oligarchs, the money, is real.”

In a statement, a spokesperson for Deripaska, Larisa Belyaeva, said that he did not hire McGonigal for any purpose and that he had never been close to Putin. A lawyer for McGonigal declined to comment.

For years, Deripaska, 55, has employed a small army of lobbyists, lawyers, consultants and fixers to protect his business and personal interests and smooth his access to Western countries.

In recent months, though, federal prosecutors in New York have charged several of those representatives in indictments that accuse them of a range of sanctions violations.

Deripaska was himself indicted last fall, with authorities saying he schemed to have his girlfriend give birth to their child in the United States. At the time, American authorities said he had not been arrested and was considered a fugitive.

Deripaska became rich by prevailing over rivals and partners in the 1990s, when well-connected Russians competed for control over state resources in the wake of the Soviet Union’s collapse. He earned a reputation for being ruthless and litigious.

He also made connections to powerful figures, particularly in Britain. He spent years trying to buy respect and credibility in the United States, London and elsewhere — hosting parties at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, hiring former senior U.S. officials as lobbyists and courting powerful British political figures.

He had worked in the past with the U.S. government, including on a failed effort to rescue an FBI agent who had been captured in Iran, for which Deripaska spent as much as $25 million of his own money.

Still, successive administrations in Washington sought to limit his ability to travel to the United States, despite personal intercessions from Putin. The FBI searched multimillion-dollar homes linked to Deripaska in 2021 as part of the investigation into whether he had violated the sanctions imposed on him.

Deripaska came to broader public attention in the United States around the 2016 election, because he had employed Paul Manafort, Donald Trump’s onetime campaign chair, as an adviser.

From roughly 2014 to 2016, the FBI tried to court Deripaska as a potential informant, seeking information on Russian organized crime and on possible Russian aid to Trump’s campaign, The New York Times reported in 2018. At one point, the Times reported, agents appeared at Deripaska’s home in New York and pressed him about Manafort and whether he had served as a link between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. (He told them the theory was “preposterous.”)

According to the indictment, in 2018, McGonigal reviewed a “then-classified list of oligarchs with close ties to the Kremlin” who were being considered for sanctions.

“Since at least 2016, Russia has been a central counterintelligence focus of the FBI and U.S. government,” said Brandon L. Van Grack, a lawyer in private practice who was a prosecutor for Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russia’s efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. “This former agent was as acutely aware of that concern as anyone at the FBI.”

In April 2018, the Trump administration announced sanctions on seven oligarchs and companies they owned or controlled as punishment for Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, the 2014 annexation of Crimea and other acts.

Deripaska and his company, Rusal, were among them. In its announcement of the sanctions, U.S. Treasury officials cited Deripaska’s connections to a senior Russian official and his work in Russia’s energy sector. Authorities said he had been investigated for money laundering and had been accused of threatening business rivals, illegally wiretapping a government official and taking part in extortion and racketeering. They also cited allegations that Deripaska had bribed a government official, ordered the murder of a businessman and had links to Russian organized crime.

Deripaska denied the allegations, which his allies have said were punishment for refusing to cooperate with U.S. authorities. (In 2019, the Trump administration lifted sanctions against Deripaska’s companies under an agreement intended to reduce his control and ownership, though a confidential document showed the deal may have been less punitive than advertised.)

For Deripaska, the sanctions represented not just an existential threat to his business, but a rejection of the cosmopolitan power broker image he had long sought to project in the West.

Deripaska fought back, seeking to undo the sanctions or lessen their potentially lethal effect on his businesses. The Times reported in late 2018 that a secret lobbying effort by his team of lawyers, consultants, bankers and well-connected allies had made “substantial headway,” including winning postponements on the sanctions.

“One of the risks and hazards of sanctioning wealthy people is they are better positioned to fight back,” said Carlton Greene, a sanctions and international money laundering expert.

It is not clear from the indictment how McGonigal got onto Deripaska’s radar.

According to the indictment against McGonigal, while he was still working for the bureau in 2018, Sergey Shestakov — a former Soviet and Russian diplomat and translator who was also charged in the case — introduced McGonigal by email to an employee of Deripaska. That person was identified in the charges as Agent-1 and described as a former Soviet and Russian Federation diplomat.

Shestakov asked McGonigal to help Agent-1’s daughter, a college student, get an internship with the New York Police Department in counterterrorism, intelligence gathering or “international liaisoning,” according to the indictment. McGonigal told an FBI subordinate that he wanted to recruit Agent-1, whom he described as a Russian intelligence officer, the indictment says.

The indictment says McGonigal agreed to help the daughter, and with help from a contact at the Police Department he secured a meeting for her with a police sergeant.

In 2019, after his retirement, McGonigal introduced Deripaska’s agent to an international law firm in Manhattan to help Deripaska have the sanctions removed, according to the indictment. During the negotiations, McGonigal met with Deripaska in London and Vienna, prosecutors said. When Deripaska signed with the firm, it brought on McGonigal as a consultant and investigator.

In the spring of 2021, Agent-1 began negotiating with McGonigal to work directly for Deripaska, without the law firm. He wanted McGonigal to investigate a business rival, according to the indictment.

Between August and November 2021, prosecutors say, Deripaska made payments to Shestakov and McGonigal from a Russian bank through accounts in Cyprus and New Jersey. In October of that year, FBI agents searched homes linked to Deripaska in New York City and Washington.

On Nov. 21, 2021, FBI agents seized Shestakov’s and McGonigal’s electronic devices.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/oligarch-may-recruited-fbi-agent-151502044.html

 

Yet another full page of fluff, none of which erases the McGonigal connection.

Alert readers will want to click on Shooters link and pick up where stumblers artful editing leaves off.

Then decide for yourself.

Fair enough stumbler?

 

What a laughable and phony bluff. Yes by all means everyone click on the link and look for yourselves. Because the only thing I did not put in that post was I accidentally missed the last line

 

OH?
Shooter must have missed this part that you posted ................

"There is no comment and there’s no connection,” Pamela told a Post reporter on Wednesday when she was approached outside her and her embattled husband’s Greenwich Village apartment building.

Mega© Radar Online
“We’ve made it clear we have nothing to say,” she added after yelling at a photog to “put [their] camera away.”

News that both Hunter’s daughters and the McGonigals’ daughter participated in the same lacrosse program in 2015 comes after Charles McGonigal was arrested on Saturday over his alleged ties to the sanctioned Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.

McGonigal allegedly worked to get Deripaska removed from the sanctions list, and was charged with violating U.S. sanctions for his efforts to get Deripaska removed.

McGonigal was also charged with money laundering, although the former FBI agent pleaded not guilty to all the charges in Manhattan federal court on Monday and was released on bond.



Mega© Radar Online
"Charlie has had a long, distinguished career with the FBI,” the former FBI agent’s lawyer, Seth DuCharme, said in a statement on Monday. “He's served the United States for decades.”

"This is obviously a distressing day for Mr. McGonigal and his family, but we'll review the evidence, we'll closely scrutinize it, and we have a lot of confidence in Mr. McGonigal,” McGonigal’s lawyer added.

As RadarOnline.com previously reported, Hunter’s alleged connection to the McGonigals also comes as the first son is under federal investigation for alleged tax, finance and gun crimes dating back at least one decade.

The federal investigators probing Hunter are reportedly close to charging President Biden’s son, particularly after they found evidence Hunter received upwards of $30,000 in tax deductions by falsely claiming them as business expenditures."​

 

Where is the link for this because it does not look like the first article you posted.

 

And if that is enough to prove guilt, then everyone everywhere is guilty!

Flimsy threads of imaginary gossamer...

 

And the connection is through their children...

Too funny, shooter! Thanks for the laugh...

 

The flimsiest of connections, but the right will run with it!

 

​

You've repeated your point 3 times in 3 posts. We get it. You don't see a connection because two families have kids in the same school, playing the same sports.
No remarks about Patrick Ho, who Hunter and McGonigal worked to get sanctions dropped on deripaska?

You do know who Patrick Ho is, right?