{"id":1820424,"date":"2023-01-23T12:51:10","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T17:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1820424"},"modified":"2023-01-23T12:51:37","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T17:51:37","slug":"ex-fbi-official-involved-in-trump-russia-probe-indicted-for-violating-sanctions-on-behalf-of-russian-oligarch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ex-fbi-official-involved-in-trump-russia-probe-indicted-for-violating-sanctions-on-behalf-of-russian-oligarch\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-FBI Official Involved in Trump-Russia Probe Indicted for Violating Sanctions on Behalf of Russian Oligarch"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fex-fbi-official-involved-in-trump-russia-probe-indicted-for-violating-sanctions-on-behalf-of-russian-oligarch%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=1820424&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-->\n<div>\n<h2 class=\"article-excerpt text-xl\">Charles McGonigal was accused of conspiring against lifting sanctions on Russian businessmen with ties to Vladimir Putin<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"736\" height=\"425\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-23-at-11.58.41-AM-736x425-1.png\" class=\"w-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-23-at-11.58.41-AM-736x425-1-1.png 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-23-at-11.58.41-AM-300x173.png 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-23-at-11.58.41-AM-1024x591-1.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-23-at-11.58.41-AM-768x443-1.png 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-23-at-11.58.41-AM-1536x886-1.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-23-at-11.58.41-AM-2048x1181-1.png 2048w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-23-at-11.58.41-AM-1400x807-1.png 1400w\"   style=\"display:none\"><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\nCharles McGonigal (YouTube) &#8211; Former FBI agent\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\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 is a Russian aluminum magnate who has close ties with Vladimir Putin. According to the prosecutors McGonigal and an ex-Russian diplomat conspired for Deripaska to be freed from sanctions in 2021. They also conducted an investigation into 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. 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>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 wrote the following letter to an FBI colleague on March 16, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>It is unknown what McGonigal&#8217;s other involvement in the Trump Russia probe was. 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 an infamous dossier the Trump campaign conspired to the Russian government to influence 2016. The FBI relied heavily on Steele\u2019s dossier for its investigation, but failed to verify the collusion allegations. Deripaska once <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GabITog54d4&#038;embeds_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fdailycaller.com%2F&#038;source_ve_path=MjM4NTE&#038;feature=emb_title\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hired<\/a> Steele will be working on a &#8220;research project&#8221; On his behalf.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles McGonigal was accused of conspiring against lifting sanctions on Russian businessmen with ties to Vladimir Putin Charles McGonigal (YouTube) &#8211; Former FBI agent 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 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1820404,"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":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[13940,11460,4032,7445,4808,16123,4083,3965,5036,4080,9704],"class_list":["post-1820424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-behalf","tag-ex-fbi","tag-indicted","tag-involved","tag-official","tag-oligarch","tag-probe","tag-russian","tag-sanctions","tag-trump-russia","tag-violating"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820424","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1820424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1820404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1820424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1820424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1820424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}