{"id":326,"date":"2023-01-25T01:41:24","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T01:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edenreports.com\/?p=326"},"modified":"2023-01-25T01:41:24","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T01:41:24","slug":"fbi-agent-involved-in-trump-russia-probe-arrested-for-colluding-with-russia-was-paid-by-ex-russian-intel-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edenreports.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/25\/fbi-agent-involved-in-trump-russia-probe-arrested-for-colluding-with-russia-was-paid-by-ex-russian-intel-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI Agent Involved in Trump-Russia Probe Arrested for Colluding with Russia, Was Paid by Ex-Russian Intel Officer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

An ex-FBI official involved in the probe of potential links between the Trump campaign and Russia was charged on Monday with breaking sanctions on behalf of a Russian oligarch<\/a> who is sanctioned by the U.S. government, according to NBC News<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Charles McGonigal<\/a>, a former leader of the FBI’s counterintelligence division in New York, has been accused<\/a> of violating U.S. sanctions on behalf of Russian aluminum magnate Oleg Deripaska, who has close ties to Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prosecutors claim<\/a> that McGonigal and a former Russian diplomat conspired to have sanctions lifted from Deripaska in 2021 and that they also investigated another Russian oligarch for concealed payments from Deripaska.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, their efforts were unsuccessful, as Deripaska remains under sanctions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McGonigal, who was arrested<\/a> on Monday, is alleged to have received $225,000<\/a> from a former Russian intelligence officer while still employed by the FBI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The indictment of McGonigal comes as a surprise, given his role in the FBI’s investigation<\/a> into the Trump campaign’s connections to Russia. As a prominent counterintelligence official<\/a>, McGonigal was among the initial individuals at the FBI to discover that a Trump campaign advisor had discussed Hillary Clinton’s emails with a foreign diplomat. This conversation ultimately led to the FBI opening an investigation into the Trump campaign, but ultimately no evidence<\/a> of collusion was found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McGonigal, a former FBI agent who left the bureau<\/a> in 2018, was reportedly involved in the investigation of Trump campaign advisor Carter Page, as evidenced by text messages released by Senate Republicans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The messages<\/a>, sent on March 16, 2017, indicate that McGonigal was in communication with an FBI colleague regarding the Russia probe and specifically mentions Carter Page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, it is not known<\/a> to what extent McGonigal was involved in the broader investigation into the Trump campaign’s potential ties to Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The probe also examined<\/a> the relationship between former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort and Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, who had previous business dealings in Ukraine and reportedly maintained contact during the 2016 campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deripaska has a connection<\/a> to Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence officer, who made claims in a controversial document that the Trump campaign cooperated with Russia to affect the 2016 presidential election. The FBI used Steele’s report<\/a> extensively for its inquiry but was unable to confirm the claims of collusion. Deripaska previously employed Steele for a research project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An ex-FBI official involved in the probe of potential links between the Trump campaign and Russia was charged on Monday with breaking sanctions on behalf of a Russian oligarch who is sanctioned by the U.S. government, according to NBC News. Charles McGonigal, a former leader of the FBI’s counterintelligence division in New York, has been accused of violating U.S. sanctions […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[113,92,97,192,114,91,67,68],"tags":[149,330,109,231,235,238,42,331,213,89,66,215,61,318,60],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edenreports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edenreports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edenreports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edenreports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edenreports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/edenreports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328,"href":"https:\/\/edenreports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions\/328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edenreports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edenreports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edenreports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edenreports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}