{"id":1820401,"date":"2023-01-23T12:35:49","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T17:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1820401"},"modified":"2023-01-23T12:58:25","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T17:58:25","slug":"plot-twist-ex-fbi-agent-involved-in-trump-russia-probe-indicted-for-violating-russia-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/plot-twist-ex-fbi-agent-involved-in-trump-russia-probe-indicted-for-violating-russia-sanctions\/","title":{"rendered":"Plot Twist: Ex-FBI Agent Involved in Trump-Russia Probe Indicted For Violating Russia Sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fplot-twist-ex-fbi-agent-involved-in-trump-russia-probe-indicted-for-violating-russia-sanctions%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1820401&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Charles McGonigal was accused of conspiring against lifting sanctions on Russian businessmen with ties towards Vladimir Putin. Former FBI official Charles McGonigal (YouTube).<\/p>\n<p>A former FBI official involved in the investigation of the Trump campaign\u2019s possible ties to Russia was charged Monday for violating sanctions on behalf of a Russian oligarch sanctioned by the U.S. government.<\/p>\n<p>Charles McGonigal, who led the FBI\u2019s counterintelligence division in New York, is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-sdny\/pr\/former-special-agent-charge-new-york-fbi-counterintelligence-division-charged-violating\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">accused<\/a> Oleg Deripaska was a Russian aluminum magnate and has close ties to Vladimir Putin. According to the prosecutors McGonigal and an ex-Russian diplomat conspired for Deripaska to be freed from sanctions in 2021. They also investigated another Russian oligarch. &#8220;in return for concealed payments&#8221; Deripaska. Deripaska is still under sanctions, so their efforts were unsuccessful.<\/p>\n<p>The indictment marks a surprising twist given McGonigal\u2019s involvement with the FBI\u2019s investigation into the Trump campaign\u2019s links to Russia. As a top counterintelligence official, McGonigal was one of the first individuals at the FBI to learn that a Trump campaign adviser had discussed Hillary Clinton\u2019s emails with a foreign diplomat. This conversation was the basis for the FBI&#8217;s investigation into Trump&#8217;s campaign. It later revealed that there was no evidence of collusion by the Trump campaign with Russia.<\/p>\n<p>The indictment marks a surprising twist given McGonigal\u2019s involvement with the FBI\u2019s investigation into the Trump campaign\u2019s links to Russia. As a top counterintelligence official, McGonigal was one of the first individuals at the FBI to learn that a Trump campaign adviser had discussed Hillary Clinton\u2019s emails with a foreign diplomat. Based on this conversation, the FBI began its investigation into the Trump campaign. However, it later discovered no evidence of collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign.<\/p>\n<p>McGonigal, who left the FBI in 2018, was involved in the bureau\u2019s probe of Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, according to text messages released by Senate Republicans. &#8220;Our Team is currently talking to [Carter Page] re Russia,&#8221; He sent it to an FBI colleague, March 16, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>It is not clear what McGonigal was involved in the Trump Russia probe. But that investigation also scrutinized Deripaska\u2019s relationship with former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort. Manafort, Deripaska and Paul Manafort had business dealings with Ukraine and kept in touch during the 2016 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Also, Deripaska has connections to Christopher Steele (an ex-british spy) who claimed in a infamous dossier that Trump campaign colluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former FBI official involved in the investigation of the Trump campaign\u2019s possible ties to Russia was charged Monday for violating sanctions on behalf of a Russian oligarch sanctioned by the U.S. government. Charles McGonigal, who led the FBI\u2019s counterintelligence division in New York, is accused of violating U.S. sanctions on behalf of Oleg Deripaska, [\u2026]<br \/>\nThe post Plot Twist: Ex-FBI Agent Involved in Trump-Russia Probe Indicted For Violating Russia Sanctions appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":1897539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Plot Twist: Ex-FBI Agent Involved in Trump-Russia Probe Indicted For Violating Russia Sanctions","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[3695,11460,4032,7445,5819,4083,4280,5036,4080,16119,9704],"class_list":["post-1820401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-agent","tag-ex-fbi","tag-indicted","tag-involved","tag-plot","tag-probe","tag-russia","tag-sanctions","tag-trump-russia","tag-twist","tag-violating"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Plot Twist: Ex-FBI Agent Involved in Trump-Russia Probe Indicted For Violating Russia Sanctions","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1820401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1897539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1820401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1820401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1820401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}